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Is it worth chasing a badge and how to use it? 🙄

Sergei Petrov
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While we were launching PingMi (https://www.ping-mi.com/), I thought about this a lot, but I did not find an answer for myself. Of course, it would be cool to get a badge of the day, week and even month. But how much effort does it take! And isn't it better to spend energy on working on the product itself? What do you think? And if you get a good badge, how can you benefit from it?

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Stas Voronov
PingMi
PingMi
Some accelerators can respect it for example :)
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Fabian Maume
Warmup Inbox
Warmup Inbox
I think that badges are mainly a vanity metric. Even if you put in a lot of effort you have no guarantee to finish in the top 5. You cannot know in advance what will be your competition. I finish several times on the 6th position which is quite frustrating badge-wise. If your goal is to get exposure for your startup finishing in the top 10 is good enough. Also if you have a small pre-existing audience (less than 300 people to ask for support), you have almost no chance to finish in the top 5. In this situation, I recommend targeting the top 20 and going for a no-frill launch: https://medium.com/@fabian-maume...
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Sandra Idjoski
Collabwriting
Collabwriting
We added ours to the ebook page on our website as social proof. If your audience is familiar with PH I think it's a good way to peak their interest a bit and make them more likely to test your product. 😄 *Our example: https://blog.collabwriting.com/r...
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