Abdullah Javaid

On 16 Sep I rewrote the title of one of my blog posts, a case study guide on AI in manufacturing. Google recrawled it on 18 Sep at 07:06, and the same day Search Console moved it from indexed to crawled, currently not indexed.

I posted about it that day as if the edit had cost me the page. In my next daily report, on 19 Sep, it was listed as newly indexed again. I had not touched it.

I've seen around a dozen launches so far, and it keeps happening every time. The product ends up being one of the top five, gets some hundreds of upvotes, and then falls silent by Thursday.

The key factor here, I think, is that the surviving ones had a loyal base of daily users even before the launch date. The others that disappeared had an audience coming to attend the show, but not the product itself.

I'm preparing to launch my first product on Product Hunt next Monday, and I've been going down the rabbit hole of launch strategies lately

Some people say to launch right at 12:01 AM Pacific. Others say the day itself matters less than having a good product, a clear message, and people who genuinely care about what you're building.

As a solo maker, I'm trying to figure out where to focus my energy instead of overthinking every little detail.

For those who've launched before: