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We launched Bucket DX on Product Hunt last Tuesday. We ranked #7 Product of the Day and are currently #3 Developer Tool of the Week.

Here's a recap of how it went, hour by hour.

For context:

• This launch was Bucket's fourth launch on Product Hunt

• It was part of Bucket's first-ever launch week

• We were in a Battle Royale with @Novu and @Tinybird

# 12:01:AM:PST — going live

Step 1: getting featured. Done!

For the first 4 hours of the day, @Product Hunt hides upvotes and sorts the homepage randomly. This should give products "a more distributed chance at exposure early."

# 02:16:AM:PST — new milestone: 100 upvotes

Product Hunt is a great place for developer tools to launch.

It helps raise awareness, get feedback, and collect testimonials — the type of materials you can reuse later on for your marketing purposes.

Take this comment from @dima_grossman, CTO and Co-founder of @Novu, for example.

The DX is just out of this world. If you're not using Bucket in your project, you are missing out. — Dima Grossman, CTO of Novu

# 04:01:AM:PST — we're currently #7!

We're currently #7 Product of the Day, with 124 upvotes and 25 comments.

# 05:42:AM:PST — new milestone: 148 upvotes

We just surpassed Releases that we launched in February 2024. We're still #7 Product of the Day.

# 10:07:AM:PST — new milestone: 200 upvotes

We're currently #7 Product of the Day and just reached 200 upvotes. 31 more upvotes to go and surpass Flags that we launched in November 2024.

# 08:56:PM:PST — new milestone: 231 upvotes

We just surpassed Flags that we launched in November 2024. We're still #7 Product of the Day.

@amanintech, CTO and Co-founder of @Lamatic.ai, left this comment:

Feature flagging is challenging and Bucket makes it incredibly developer-friendly. — Aman Sharma, CTO of Lamatic.⁠ai

# 11:59:PM:PST — wrapping up

That's a wrap!

Results:

• 242 points

• 42 comments

• #7 Product of the Day — featured in Product Hunt's newsletters 😻

S/O to the @Novu and @Tinybird teams who ranked in the Top 10, respectively #4 and #10 👏👏

# Final thoughts

Launching keeps reminding the market that your company exists and you’re making progress. — Karri Saarinen, CEO of Linear in Linear Method

This launch was Bucket's fourth launch on Product Hunt and is part of Bucket's first-ever launch week — a week of announcing new features.

Launching on Product Hunt as a developer tool definitely works. It pays off in the long term. We keep launching.

Oh and we're currently #3 Developer Tool of the Week! Join the launch here.

Next week is Bucket's first-ever launch week.

A launch week is a week of announcements. We're introducing a series of new features making feature flagging a fast, joyful experience for SaaS developers.

We'll be live on Tuesday, March 18, on Product Hunt for a Battle Royale with @Novu and @Tinybird. The most upvoted product wins. Get notified here and follow us on Twitter/X and Bluesky for the latest updates.

Oh and if you have any questions on getting acquired, running a 100+ engineering team, quitting your job, starting a dev-first company, raising VC funds, hiring a remote-first team... Ask @makwarth anything here!

See you next week

@roncohen and I are building @Bucket to enable developers in SaaS to ship the right features, faster.

Before that, we co-founded @Opbeat , got acquired by @ElasticSearch , ran the 100+ Observability team, quit, co-founded another devtool company, raised VC funding again, hired a wonderful team (remote).

Above all, we love crafting world-class developer tools.

If you have any questions related to dev tools, product craftsmanship, next-gen feature flags, trunk-based development, developer experience, starting a company, remote work, raising VC funds, getting acquired, being based in Europe (Copenhagen), and of course... Bucket — please do ask!

I'll answer them by launch day on March 18th!