Product Hunt to świetny sposób na przedstawienie nowych produktów ogromnej publiczności i społeczności. Platforma ta od wielu lat udowadnia, że wprowadzanie na rynek nowych produktów może przyspieszyć i zyskać popularność. Prawdziwy katalizator i szansa na rozpowszechnienie informacji o Twoim produkcie lub ogólnie Startupie.
W tym artykule spisałem wszystkie nasze porady i wskazówki dotyczące udanego uruchomienia polowania na produkty. Obejmuje to ponad 10 uruchomień w ciągu ostatnich 12 miesięcy, z których wszystkie zakończyły się sukcesem. W rzeczywistości zebraliśmy ponad 6800 pozytywnych głosów i uzyskaliśmy następujące wyniki:
- Jednorazowy produkt dnia nr 1
- Cztery razy Produkt dnia nr 2
- Dwa razy #3 Produkt dnia
- Dwa razy #5 Produkt dnia
- Dwa razy #5 Produkt tygodnia
Zanim zaczniemy, oto przegląd tego, co omówię w tym artykule.
Spis treści
- Wprowadzenie do wyszukiwania produktów
- Nasze wyniki uruchomienia
- Przygotowania do uruchomienia
- Społeczność
- Dzień premiery
- Biuletyn PH
- Statek poszukiwania produktu
- Wnioski
1. Wprowadzenie do poszukiwania produktów
Dla tych, którzy są nowi w Product Hunt, przedstawię krótkie wprowadzenie do tego, czym dokładnie jest Product Hunt i jak działa platforma. Ci, którzy znają już Product Hunt i są aktywni, mogą przejść do następnego rozdziału. Product Hunt to platforma, którą według serwisu Podobne Web odwiedza miesięcznie prawie 5 milionów użytkowników.
Zasada jest prosta! Każdego dnia wprowadzane są nowe produkty, które są oceniane przez społeczność za pomocą pozytywnego głosowania. Wynikiem tego jest codzienny ranking najlepszych produktów.
Oczywiście im wyższy jest Twój głos, tym więcej uwagi poświęcasz, co jednocześnie oznacza więcej odwiedzających witrynę, więcej rejestracji lub pobrań aplikacji. Poza rankingiem dziennym organizowane są również rankingi najlepszych produktów tygodnia i miesiąca, a raz w roku najlepsze produkty zostają uhonorowane nagrodami Golden Kitty. Sprawdź zwycięzców z zeszłego roku.
Bez obaw! Uruchomienie Product Hunt jest całkowicie bezpłatne i możesz po prostu zasubskrybować, aby utworzyć profil. Aby chronić platformę przed fałszywymi kontami i ułatwić logowanie, możesz subskrybować swoje profile społecznościowe. Product Hunt jest więc największą platformą do wprowadzania nowych produktów. Istnieje wiele historii sukcesu, w których Product Hunt był katalizatorem szybkiego wzrostu, uwagi mediów, przyciągania inwestorów lub sprzedaży. Ogromny zasięg, jaki może zapewnić Product Hunt, pokazuje również, że zgłaszane są tam nie tylko małe startupy, niezależni twórcy czy projekty poboczne, ale także duże firmy o ugruntowanej pozycji i startupy, które już mają poziom jednorożca, wprowadzają swój produkt na Product Hunt.
Często jestem pytany, czy produkty w wersji beta są idealne do rozpoczęcia polowania na produkty. Odpowiedź brzmi:tak, społeczność Product Hunt jest gotowa podzielić się cennymi opiniami na temat produktów, które nie są jeszcze gotowe. Należy jednak uważać, aby Twój produkt był gotowy do dodania wartości użytkownikom poszukującym produktów i mógł być używany.
Oto kilka przydatnych terminów:
Podobnie jak w przypadku Reddit, istnieją punkty karmy, które można zbierać. Dla osób aktywnych dostępny jest brązowy symbol od 100 punktów, od 500 punktów srebrny symbol, a od 1000+ punktów złoty symbol. Każdy, kto wypuścił produkt na Product Hunt i tym samym jest Twórcą, również ma zielone „M” jako wskaźnik. Im więcej masz punktów karmy, tym cenniejsze są Twoje głosy, ale o tym później.
2. Nasze wyniki w Product Hunt
Oto wyniki, które osiągnęliśmy dzięki naszym premierom w ciągu jednego roku. Oczywiście nie powinno to dotyczyć naginania wyników. Wyniki służą raczej jako dowód na to, co jest możliwe w krótkim czasie i że dobrze przygotowane premiery produktów mogą mieć pozytywny wpływ na wszystkie Twoje wskaźniki.
Nasza pierwsza premiera
Ale najpierw cofnijmy się o krok i zobaczmy, jak to wszystko się zaczęło. Prawdopodobnie jesteś właśnie w tym momencie i myślisz o pierwszym uruchomieniu Product Hunt.
Dla mnie wszystko zaczęło się 07.06.2020, kiedy założyłem konto na Product Hunt i uruchomiłem przygotowania do naszego pierwszego zgłoszenia, które miałoby nastąpić miesiąc później, 07.07.2020.
Przygotowania do pierwszego uruchomienia Product Hunt były zdecydowanie najbardziej intensywne, ponieważ wszyscy byliśmy nowi w Product Hunt i społeczności. Przeczytałem wiele artykułów, które były dostępne w Internecie, im głębiej zagłębiałem się w świat Product Hunt, tym więcej miałem pytań. Dlatego zdecydowałem się napisać do najlepszych łowców i twórców, którzy odnoszą sukcesy na platformie, prosząc o opinie i rady.
Szybko zdałem sobie sprawę, że użytkownicy Product Hunt to bardzo otwarta i pozytywna społeczność, w której wielu chętnie dzieli się swoimi doświadczeniami i udziela cennych rad.
Jedna rada, która ciągle do mnie wracała, brzmiała:społeczność, którą budujesz wokół swojego produktu, jest bardzo pomocna. A jeszcze lepiej, mieć społeczność, która jest aktywna w Product Hunt. Ale o tym później.
Tak więc byliśmy gotowi na pierwsze polowanie na produkty. Wbrew naszym oczekiwaniom, start poszedł niesamowicie dobrze i byliśmy na pierwszym miejscu przez prawie 14 godzin. Byliśmy przytłoczeni wszystkimi odpowiedziami, które otrzymaliśmy. Niemniej jednak, na koniec dnia wylądowaliśmy dopiero na 6. miejscu i przegapiliśmy partię, którą otrzymuje pierwszych 5 produktów i którą możesz umieścić na swojej stronie. A wszystko to pomimo tego, że mieliśmy najwięcej pozytywnych głosów tego dnia.
Więc co się stało? Nadchodzi nasza pierwsza duża nauka od naszego pierwszego uruchomienia!
Jak widać na powyższym obrazku, otrzymaliśmy wiele pozytywnych głosów po rozpoczęciu dnia, co doprowadziło nas na szczyt. Prawie 300 pozytywnych głosów w ciągu pierwszych 6 godzin . Jeśli policzymy, co oznacza, że na koniec dnia uzyskalibyśmy 1200 pozytywnych głosów które są prawie niemożliwe do zdobycia pierwszego dnia. Jak dotąd udało się to tylko kilku produktom.
Problem z tymi pozytywnymi głosami polega na tym, że pochodziły one z naszej sieci i prawie wszyscy ludzie, którzy nas wspierali, utworzyli nowe konto na Product Hunt tego dnia lub kilka tygodni temu.
Nie każdy głos oddający głos jest tyle samo wart. Głosy pozytywne od stałych i aktywnych członków mają większą wagę niż te od nowych członków. Więcej o algorytmie Product Hunt później. Oczywiste jest jednak, że algorytmy nie są głupie i mają na celu zapobieganie sztucznemu głosowaniu. W niektórych przypadkach produkty są usuwane z platformy, ponieważ próbują sztucznie naciskać. Nie myśleliśmy o tym, kiedy po raz pierwszy wystartowaliśmy i powiedzieliśmy wszystkim naszym przyjaciołom i ludziom z naszej sieci startupów, aby nas wspierali. W międzyczasie PH wydało aktualizację, w której nowi użytkownicy są wyświetlani z czerwonym balonem nad ich zdjęciem profilowym.
Więc nie próbuj sztucznie pchać swojego produktu niewiarygodnie mocno. Niewielkie wsparcie jest dozwolone i nie będzie karane, ale jeśli jest zbyt duże, ryzykujesz karę.
Z tego powodu wciąż byliśmy dopiero na 6. miejscu z największą liczbą pozytywnych głosów. Niemniej jednak premiera była dla nas prawdziwym sukcesem i kamieniem milowym. Oto liczby, które udało nam się zarejestrować.
W sumie mieliśmy 11,8 tys. sesji od wtorku do niedzieli w tygodniu premiery z 5,3 tys. Unikalni odwiedzający. W samym dniu było ich 2,4 tys. unikalnych odwiedzających.
Odsłony witryn pochodzą głównie z USA (23% ), a następnie Indie (9% ). Według Podobne Web są to również dwie największe grupy społecznościowe na platformie. Zachowanie urządzenia pokazuje, że większość osób odwiedziła naszą witrynę za pośrednictwem przeglądarki na komputerze, co jest dla nas bardzo przydatne, ponieważ najpierw tworzymy Type Studio na komputery stacjonarne, a nie na urządzenia mobilne (przynajmniej do tej pory;)).
W Amplitude odnotowaliśmy łącznie 541 nowych rejestracji w ciągu tygodnia, co okazało się dla nas bardzo cenne, ponieważ otrzymaliśmy niesamowitą ilość opinii użytkowników i prawdziwą bazę użytkowników.
Jak wspomniano na początku, premiera może przynieść ze sobą wiele innych pozytywnych rzeczy. W ciągu dnia łącznie 8 inwestorów skontaktował się z nami. To pokazuje, że wielu inwestorów bierze udział w Product Hunt i szuka ekscytujących nowych produktów lub start-upów.
Nasza absolutna atrakcja pojawiła się później tego dnia, kiedy zostaliśmy przesłani dalej bezpośrednio przez Ryana Hoovera, założyciela Product Hunt. Wiedzieliśmy, że wiele produktów jest retweetowanych przez oficjalną stronę Product Hunt na Twitterze, ale to naprawdę nas zaskoczyło! Kilka minut później otrzymaliśmy wiadomość e-mail od Ryana i Vediki Jain oraz ich Funduszu Weekendowego że chcieliby nas poznać.
Po premierach
Wprowadzanie kolejnych produktów było dla nas znacznie spokojniejsze i przyniosło podobnie dobre wyniki, ponieważ wyciągnęliśmy wnioski z błędów, które popełniliśmy przy pierwszym uruchomieniu i zasadniczo wprowadziliśmy następujące zmiany.
- Przekonaliśmy dobrze znanego Łowcy w społeczności do zgłoszenia naszego produktu do Product Hunt.
- Wybrano inny dzień premiery.
- Poprosiliśmy o wsparcie społeczność, którą zdobyliśmy dzięki naszemu pierwszemu uruchomieniu w Product Hunt.
Dzięki tym ulepszeniom nasza druga premiera dotarła nawet bezpośrednio na pierwsze miejsce. Jeśli chcesz uzyskać więcej informacji i statystyk z jednej z naszych premier, sprawdź mój post na temat Indie Hacker.
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/2-on-product-hunt-insights-from-our-launch-9d6574c63d
Zanim przejdziemy do właściwych przygotowań do Twojej premiery, oto ważna wskazówka!
Nie naruszaj zasad Product Hunt. Nigdy nie proś o bezpośrednie pozytywne głosy, ale raczej o opinie i wsparcie dla Twojej premiery. Ten sam produkt lub wersję 2.0 można przesłać ponownie po maksymalnie 6 miesiącach, w przeciwnym razie zostanie usunięty z zespołu Product Hunt. Fakt, że Product Hunt może być bardzo surowy i ściśle przestrzega tych zasad, pokazuje ten artykuł z edytora bez kodu Softr.
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/from-1-on-producthunt-to-being-unlisted-5aaed4ec5f
Ale teraz przejdźmy do prawdziwych przygotowań do premiery.
3. Przygotowanie do premiery
Przygotowując się do premiery Product Hunt, należy pamiętać o kilku rzeczach. You can practically divide the work into three steps
- Pre-launch
- The actual launch day
- Post-launch
Most of the work is done during the pre-launch. But don't worry, don't let it put you off. Maybe it sounds difficult at first sight. I have summarized all the things that are important to prepare your launch on Product Hunt optimally.
Launching days are different from each other
Not every day is the same on Product Hunt. There are days when there are more visitors on the website and days when there are fewer. Accordingly, high-quality products usually launch on the days when there are many visitors on the site to be seen by as many as possible and get many upvotes.
After our first launch, I made an evaluation over the period of one year to see which are the strongest days on Product Hunt. For this, I added up the upvotes of the top five products of the respective day.
It can be seen that Tuesday is the strongest day. But also Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday are strong days on Product Hunt. Towards the weekend it gets a bit quieter. Saturday and Sunday are the least busy days on Product Hunt. From this, you can now derive your strategy for picking the right day. If you think your product is very strong or you already have a large fan base on Product Hunt, it makes sense to launch on a strong day. If, on the other hand, you want to get a top ranking more easily and accept that fewer people will explore the product, the weekend is a good time for the launch.
One thing you can never prevent is other good products launching on Product Hunt on the same day. At our first launch, we had the bad luck that mmhmm also launched on the same day. mmhmm app, which is from the Evernote founder Phil Libin. His app has gone viral in the whole tech scene and has received over 3700 upvotes so far. Especially his explanatory video has received an incredible amount of attention - over 300k clicks as of now. If you want to see an excellent product video, you should definitely watch it!
Prepare submission
Let's move on to the preparation for your own launch. This consists mainly of the preparation of headlines, texts, images, and ideally a video.
On the overview page you will always see the following information about your product:
The page of the project itself looks like this:
Logo / Icon (GIF)
An important part is the logo of your product. The product hunt community likes well-designed logos. If you want to go the extra mile, animate your logo or create a GIF. This will automatically attract more attention when people scroll through the products. The logo should have the following characteristics. Square Logo with an aspect ratio of 240x240 JPG, PNG, GIF. Make sure that the file is not larger than 2MB.
Here are a few of our examples:
Images
Pictures are very important to explain your product. I would recommend having at least three of them. Prepare nice screenshots or vivid images of your product. You can submit multiple images. Again, they can be gifs if appropriate. It is important that the first image serves as a thumbnail of your page. That means, if you share the link to your product hunt page, this image will be used as a thumbnail. So make sure that this image represents your product as well as possible and is not a detailed image of a special feature of your product. The resolution of your images should be 1270 x 760.
Here's an example of how it looks like if you want to share the link on Twitter:
Video
To present your product as well as possible, you can submit a video that you must have uploaded to Youtube. With a video, you can present your product in the best possible way. A clear trend that has emerged recently is product demos that you can easily record with Loom or other screen recording tools. These work better than highly polished marketing videos and make you and your product more authentic. Make sure that the videos are not too long and that you get to the point.
Here is one of our explanatory videos:
Headline (max. 40 characters)
The headline should usually be the name of your product or feature. There are only 40 characters available, which means you have to get the headline to the point one way or the other.
Tagline (max. 60 characters)
Try to formulate the most important function or feature of your product in one sentence. Again a maximum of 60 characters is available. The sentence should be very well chosen because, besides the headline and the logo, it is everything that must convince the visitor on Product Hunt to take a closer look at your product.
Description of Product (max 260 characters)
Explain what your product does and why it is awesome in less than 260 characters. This information will be found under the video and images on your product page. It's basically like a high-level pitch of your product.
Link to your product
The link should go to your main product page. If you have an app, you can also include an App Store or Play Store link. In a few cases, products from Kickstarter campaigns are presented and linked.
Topics
There are different topics that you can enter at Product Hunt to classify your product. Do not specify more than 5 different categories. Among these categories, your product will be found later on (e.g. Productivity, SaaS, Developer Tools, Social Media).
Social Media
For the visitors, you can specify your social media channels on which people can find you. It is important that you do not enter your personal profiles here, but those of your product. This is how Product Hunt specifies it. There is the possibility to specify a Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and AngelList (since Product Hunt was bought by AngelList). In addition, you can also specify an article that you have published on Medium for exciting articles about your product.
Maker Comment
A good launch on Product Hunt has a detailed Maker comment! You can write this already in the preparation. If you hunt your product yourself, you can also post it beforehand. Generally, as a Hunter, you are able to schedule your launch 7 days in advance. Explain all the details the visitors should know about your product and give a little background of how you develop the product and what problem you're solving. At the latest when your product is live, you should post the comment in the comment box below your product. This is also where visitors will provide feedback on your product.
This is my Maker comment under our first submission. This post alone got 26 upvotes and shows that it is very appreciated by the community.
Hunter
There is no topic that is discussed as much as having an external hunter for the launch of your product! I have talked to many successful makers and hunters about this and here is my opinion.
It's definitely not a negative aspect to have someone like a Hunter who is kind of an influencer on Product Hunt and is known in the community. Our first launch on Product Hunt was without a Hunter and I hunted our product myself. As a learning, we said then, next time we want to have a known Hunter, which brings us the additional trust and upvotes from established community members. As a counter-argument, it can be said that this additional boost is not as noticeable as it used to be, because in the past all followers of a Hunter received an email notification that a new product was being launched. However, Product Hunt has stopped this and you only get a push notification in the app.
So it's a question of how much effort and time you want to put into finding a hunter. Some of the biggest hunters also take a fee to launch your product. Nevertheless, we have noticed that finding a Hunter who is well connected to the community is a good indicator to get a good result because they will also take a look at your product and give you their honest opinion.
One of the biggest advantages is that a Hunter can make that your product is featured directly on the front page.
Wait... what? What is the front page?
Don't worry it won't get any more complicated. Since a lot of products are published throughout the day, each product starts in the "NEWEST" section, which is reached from the home page, but of course, is much less visited than the home page itself. So you have to manage to get enough relevance to be listed on the home page and the limited spots. There are basically too many products on Product Hunt. But don't worry, as soon as you get some votes you will usually be listed on the front page and will potential seen by all the daily visitors.
To conclude, top hunters are not a guarantee that your product will be successful and has less impact than it did a while ago. Of course, you can hunt your own product at any time. At the same time, a hunter can not hurt and increases the likelihood that your product will get more trust and a direct starting place on the home page. So you have to decide how much energy you want to spend to get a hunter to submit your product or to hunt your own product. But as I already said the community is a very nice one and you can basically reach out to them on Twitter or Facebook and get a response.
Here are some of the most famous top hunters that are out there:
- Kevin William David
- Chris Messina
- Hiten Shah
- Ben Lang
- Bram Kanstein
There is also a list made by Davis Baer about the Top 500 Hunters.
Since I've been on Product Hunt daily and become a part of the community, I've been getting more and more requests to do product hunt's. I have already accompanied two successful product hunt's. So if you need help, just visit my website and fill out the form.✌️
4. Community
If you're really serious about the launch and want to network with people in the community, you need to put the time and work in and network with them. As I started asking top hunters and makers for feedback and advice, nice conversations started to happen and I was offered to send them a link from our launch. Like I said the Product Hunt community is a rally cooperatively one.
There are numerous groups on Facebook and Slack where you can go and interact with people from Product Hunt. Product Hunt itself does not have the ability to chat with people. However, most of them have linked their Twitter account to Product Hunt and you can reach them there. I will link you to all the groups that I'm in, in the next chapter. Again, never ask for direct upvotes! This comes scammy and is not liked. Lead much more interesting conversation and exchange with people from the scene. Of course, you can also try to add value to the person you are networking with.
Special offer / Discount
The Product Hunt community appreciates getting a discount for being an early adopter. For example, we always give a 20% discount throughout the day on the paid version of Type Studio. Again, you can communicate this via image like this for example.
5. Launch Day
Is there anything to consider on the launch day itself? Simple answer - Yes, it is! Here are the most crucial things you should look out for.
The golden first hour's traction
By far the most important thing is to make sure that you get enough upvotes in the first hours to reach first place in the best case. Many visitors to Product Hunt only look at the top listed products. Similar to Google search results, the percentage decreases significantly the lower you are listed.
Here's one of the many examples where the winner is practically a foregone conclusion. What is striking is that the places from 2 to 5 have not changed since the beginning of the day. All get very evenly many upvotes over the entire period.
One prerequisite is, of course, that your product is fundamentally attractive and arouses curiosity. With a launch of a background remover from images, this probably won't work anymore, because more than 10 such products have already been launched. So try to mobilize your community and supporters especially for the first hours. But make sure that there are not hundreds at once, otherwise, the product hunt algorithm will fail and reject your product. The algorithm detects when you try to game the system.
What does right at the beginning of the day mean?
Since the Product Hunt servers are located in the PST time zone (GMT-8), a new day starts exactly at 12:00 am PST. So your product should go live right at the beginning of the day to take the whole 24h with you and get to the top as fast as possible. For security reasons, you should schedule the submission for 12:01 am so that no mistakes happen with the conversion of the servers to a new day.
Answer Feedback and start discussions
During your launch on Product Hunt, you can see a kind of dashboard. Here you will also see comments posted under your product. Product hunt shows you these messages as unanswered messages. This means you should reply to all comments if possible. Often valuable feedback is given by people who have tried your product. Here it is a good idea to start conversations and if questions arise to answer them so that other visitors can read the answers.
Comments are also a ranking factor. Comments from people with many karma points definitely have a positive effect on your ranking. So if you are connected with people who have valuable accounts, ask them to leave feedback in the form of a comment under your product.
Often I see the mistake of makers who try to push your product with many comments. This behavior is especially noticeable when the people who comment have a red balloon next to their profile picture and are thus displayed as new members.
Prevent your comment section from looking like this. It is a bad sign and can be a red flag at the Product Hunt algorithm.
Go in groups and spread the word around your launch
There are numerous ways to let people know about your launch on Product Hunt. When you go live, you should make the effort to actively promote it. There are many Facebook groups and Slack groups made for promoting the launch. To be honest the interaction rate is relatively low but it is worth the effort to get some interested people for your product. Again, it's important that you don't ask for upvotes directly, but rather for feedback. If they like your product, the upvote will come by itself.
Here is an example of what a post of mine looks like:
So know you want to know which groups are existing. I will link you to all the groups I am in.
Facebooku
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProductHuntBerlin
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/612366049190855
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/producthuntupvoters
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/producthuntupvotes
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/producthunt.exchange
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/producthuntexchangecommunity
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/producthuntupvote
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/producthuntgermany/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/388232458714072/
Make sure you join the groups early enough, sometimes it takes a few days to get accepted. The same goes for posting. In most groups, your post will be checked beforehand and that takes some time. So post as early as possible after your product goes live.
Slack
With these Slack groups, there are dedicated product hunt channels where you can post.
- product-school.slack.com
- indieworldwide.slack.com
- startupstudygroup.slack.com
- launch-chat.slack.com
- growthhackertalk.slack.com
- programmaticmarketing.slack.com
- makers-kitchen.slack.com
- pigeonhack.slack.com
- growmance.slack.com
Indie Hacker
If you're on Indie Hacker, you can post your launch there too. There is a separate group for it.
- https://www.indiehackers.com/group/product-hunt
The same as for indie hackers applies to Reddit. There is a subreddit here as well.
- https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductHunters/
Other Social Media
Of course, you can announce your launch anywhere else. Post it on LinkedIn or on Twitter. Twitter is actually a very good channel because basically a lot of people from the Product Hunt community are very active on Twitter. Make sure to tag the @ProductHunt account in your tweet. If your product is featured on the home page of Product Hunt it is very likely that the Product Hunt account will make a tweet about you. Or you are lucky and arouse the interest of Ryan Hoover himself, who then tweets about you.
Batch
To welcome the product hunt community on your landing page and basically inform all visitors on your website about the launch, you can embed the batch on your website via a small snippet.
If you get among the top 5 of the day, you get a new batch unlocked, which you can permanently embed on your landing page. We have included our batch in the footer of our landing page.
Clarify a common myth about Product Hunt launches
The biggest rumor going around about a launch at Product Hunt is that direct linking to your launch page is negative because the algorithm notices it and reports spam. People trying workarounds and just linking to the main page or just tell people they should visit Product Hunt and search for their product to upvote it.
Product Hunt clears up the rumor and says linking to your launch is absolutely okay and will not be penalized. However, linking to the home page only makes it harder for visitors to find your product.
Speaking of what is allowed and what is not. Trying to cheat is not allowed! There are some offers on Fiverr to buy upvotes. I highly recommend you never do that!!! They are not high-quality votes and the algorithm will detect this. Even if the upvotes are so cheap and the offer is tempting like this one found in Fiverr.
You will probably also receive messages like this one, trying to sell you upvotes and promising you a top ranking.
Cheating has never won, so keep your hands off these dubious offers. Your result will look like these in the end:
For me a clear case that here artificially upvotes were generated. Maiar got extremely many upvotes in a very short time, which was directly recognized by PH. They ended up far behind products with significantly fewer upvotes.
For me a clear case that here artificially upvotes were generated. Maiar got extremely many upvotes in a very short time, which was directly recognized by PH. They ended up far behind products with significantly fewer upvotes.
While products that were ranked before Maiar had just a little bit over 100 upvotes, Maiar already had 838 upvotes and was still listed behind. Everyone could see that they tried to artificially push the product with upvotes, which in the end had exactly the opposite effect.
Okay, enough of failed launches and back to the beautiful things of launch your product. But one sad last example that affected us at one of our launches I have to share with you! https://typestudio.co/blog/suspicious-upvotes-on-product-hunt/
6. Newsletter aka the second boost
Product Hunt has a newsletter that reaches an extremely large audience. There are two different newsletters. One that is sent every weekday and one that summarizes the weekend. In the newsletter, the top 10 products on Product Hunt of the previous day or weekend are mentioned. This means that if you make it into the top 10 of the day, you are in the newsletter the next day and can look forward to some more upvotes because many prefer to read the newsletter than to search daily on Product Hunt for cool products. In your profile settings, you can choose which newsletter you would like to receive. If you like to check out how the newsletter looks like you can visit their newsletter page where all newsletters are stored.
7. Product Hunt Ship
If you think it's too hard to build a community around Product Hunt and your launch, Product Hunt offers you a great opportunity. Product Hunt Ship helps you to announce your product even before launching it! You will get a landing page on Product Hunt where you can collect email addresses for interested folks. This way you can build a community that will surely support you on your launch day. Another positive effect that Ship brings is that you can get some beat users who can give you valuable feedback on your product.
8. Conclusion
That was a ride! But you have made it. That was all the knowledge I gathered about product Hunt as a heavy user. I hope you got some exciting insights into the world of Product Hunt and are now ready to prepare everything to successfully launching on Product Hunt.
Let me briefly summarize the most relevant learnings.
- Product Hunt is a great platform capture the light of the world for your product or Startup
- It will need some time and effort to prepare a your launch well enough, but there is no magic and everything can be done by following the simple steps that I have listed.
- Try to build a community around your product with preferably real product hunt natives.
If you have any questions or suggestions, I'd be happy to talk to you about Product Hunt, your launch, or anything else I've mentioned here. Just feel free to send me an email:[email protected]
I wish you a happy launch day!