ProductHunt is very gamified. You have to jump through their hoops to do well, reach out to "hunters" (these guys will put this badge on their twitter/linkedin) to post for you to get the boost from their following, schedule to launch at the perfect time, spam people to upvote you. People buy bots, PH doesn't care like HN does about voting rings or authenticity.<p>We launched D2 to 629 upvotes on HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33704254" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33704254</a>), and 1.3k on Reddit. I didn't want to fuck with all that ProductHunt checklist stuff and threw it on there and got 9 (<a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/d2" rel="nofollow">https://www.producthunt.com/products/d2</a>).<p>In hindsight it was probably worth playing their game. It does get a lot of traffic. I just never visit the page because I know how gamified it is.
We launched our product on Product Hunt today and thought it would be fun to share all of the metrics we're tracking associated with our launch.<p>We followed several of the Product Hunt launch checklists including...<p>* <a href="https://heyday.xyz/blog/how-to-launch-on-product-hunt/" rel="nofollow">https://heyday.xyz/blog/how-to-launch-on-product-hunt/</a><p>* <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/launch" rel="nofollow">https://www.producthunt.com/launch</a><p>Learnings so far<p>* It's REALLY important to stack a bunch of upvotes right at midnight PST. We fell behind in the first hour, and it's quite tough to get back in the top 10 afterwards. Make more friends in Europe and Asia!<p>* Launching on PH is fun, but not a lot of discovery seems to actually happen on the site. It seems like the winners from the initial batch of upvotes at ~2am PT generally stay the winners throughout the day<p>* Some of the "how to launch" articles suggest that only getting "seasoned" accounts to upvote and comment is important. On the contrary, seems like a lot of the top 3 traffic is driven by fairly low quality interactions (not many comments and low quality comments)
I truly loath product hunt in its current state.<p>It's just a game of who can get the most friends/bots to vote.<p>Further, it is only relevant to those present in the echo chamber.
that's a great way to show off your use case with Plus Docs! This actually makes me want to check out and sign up for Plus more than the other show HN link.
I rather want some kind of marketplace that's more like solutions <-> problems matching, not maker "community". For example, identifying business problems is hard, the platform should solve "Could these companies' problems be solved by my solutions" problem. Name it realbusinessproblems.com