What do you do to encourage your users to sign up for Product Hunt?
Ben Bohbot
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Our plan is to launch soon, so we are trying to figure out how to encourage our users to upvote us on launch day.
In your opinion, what should we do?
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Fabian Maume@fabian_maume
Warmup Inbox
Getting upvotes from new Product hunt users won't help you. Upvotes are weighted according to some parameters like the account's age and karma.
So trying to make your user sign-up to Product Hunt won't help much.
You will be better off outreaching people who are actually active on product hunt. Check who already upvoted similar products and connect with them on LinkedIn. Message them on the day of the launch.
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Jika.io
@fabian_maume Hi Fabian,
I'm appreciate your comment!
The goal is to ask our users to create an account three weeks before the launch date, is that not enough?
@fabian_maume @ben_bohbot Yep, agree with Fabian. I saw it in my own launch. The upvotes of people who came here to support us or who weren't active users didn't count or could disappear.
Therefore, it's best to interest active PH users in your product.
When it comes to people creating profiles 3 weeks in advance then they would need to be actually active all 3 weeks and gather points
Warmup Inbox
@ben_bohbot if they just create the account and are not active, it won't have much impact
We're making an informative post about Product Hunt. But we're not sure if it'll work. We'll see!
Jika.io
@martina_hackbartt Thank you! good luck :)
@cherieyang Hey, Cherie! This is the blog post I wrote: https://www.reskript.com/post/wh.... And what we did was send a shortened version to our newsletter. I'll check the open and click rate and will reach out to you again! We did it with a short amount prior to the launch (one week) so I don't think it had much impact
set.new
@martina_hackbartt Would love to hear your insights on this!
set.new
@martina_hackbartt Amazing, thank you!
WorkHub
Outreaching the people on PH is the best option in my view.
Jika.io
@qudsia_ali What is the best way to contact them? On Twitter? LinkedIn?
Jika.io
we are live!
Jika.io
Emma Up Sleep
@ben_bohbot Hey Ben, I'd love to hear how it went! 3rd place sounds awesome! Did you end up seeing results from people with new accounts? Or did you end up focusing on people with existing PH accounts?
Following this thread! We're getting ready for our launch on April 22nd and looking for ways to boost sign-ups as well