"First of all no matter what you launch, if you hope that you simply put your submission out there, and it will end up in the top 5 of the day, most certainly this is not going to happen. If you wanna get there, you have to come up with a plan to promote your listing and get the upvotes." - so, it looks like that was (at least partially) wrong.<p>Why would you think that it's not possible to launch it more or less organically? It's definitely possible here on HN, why would PH should be very different?<p>At the very end - don't focus on promoting that much, especially artificially, build the product people love and you get your front page.