If you've launched on Product Hunt how did you choose your Hunter? 🤔

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So this week I've been putting together a small shortlist of Hunters that we want to reach out to in order to Hunt our product.

But I'm keen to know what factors influenced you in choosing the hunters that you wanted to Hunt your own product?

Would love your thoughts 👇👇

Kazimieras Melaika · Accepted Answer

We’re launching in late April or start of May, still haven't chosen the hunters. Really interesting to know when and how you selected them. Thanks!

Btw, Check out our product hunt upcoming page: www.producthunt.com/upcoming/effecto
Our project is called: Effecto. It’s an app for detailed health tracking. Pretty much for everything that is related to your physical or mental health and every daily factor that can affect you.

FALAK SHER | phlaunchchecklist.com · Answer

Happy to hunt any product + review their launch kit etc. You can message me on Twitter or fill this form https://phlaunchchecklist.com/hunt

Cherie Yang · Answer

@kmelaika Looks like a really useful product! Following - all the best!

Maxwell Davis · Answer

@pablo_fatas Oh that's cool - they'll be really into it too as they know your product already.  Well you can launch without a hunter at all so they aren't vital, it might just help with visibility so we're trying to find one to help our chances 😀

Fabian Maume · Answer

https://upvote-bell.com/leaderboard is a good place to look for hunters.

Maxwell Davis · Answer

@paul_vanzandt Yeah it seems to be a theme from responses I've got here and elsewhere that alignment is really important.  Good luck with your search and future launch 🚀🚀

Paul VanZandt · Answer

We haven't launched yet but we're already in the process of looking for a hunter. I think it would certainly be helpful to expand our potential audience, but if the visions don't align we're happy to hunt independently. At the end of the day, the viability of the product will determine its success.

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At SigmaOS we were coming from YC so our mentor there hunted us. Is who your hunter is important?

Kate Kurshina · Answer

I looked at what services and products he hunted - whether they are close to my subject, what he wrote in the description. Not always the number of his subscribers is the main factor in the choice. We looked at Hunter's activity not only on PH - his social networks and occupation. 
Well, there are preliminary calls, where you decide whether to work with him or look for another.

For my project https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/inqoob
We picked a tech-savvy Hunter who has hunted similar projects and is himself involved in investing and developing tech startups.

Maxwell Davis · Answer

@fabian_maume Hey Fabian thanks!

Maxwell Davis · Answer

@kmelaika It looks like the factors are Alignment, Product Hunt Following and Social Media following.  Your product sounds very interesting, will check it out

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@maxwellcdavis What are you launching by the way?

Maxwell Davis · Answer

@katerina_kurshina Thanks for the information - the social media angle of this seems to be quite important as it's another way to get some visibility of the product.

Good luck with your launch 🚀🚀

If you've launched on Product Hunt how did you choose your Hunter? 🤔

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