Evelyn White's profile on Product Hunt

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With over 3years of combined experience in media relations, copywriting ,brand marketing and content creation, I'm passionate about using my skills to increase brand visibility . As a freelance music and culture journalist , I've written for publications including New Wave Magazine, CLASH and Mixtape Madness.

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p/notchmind

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10d ago

My first Product Hunt launch: X sent 1 vote, YouTube did the rest. What worked for you?

I launched NotchMind, a Mac app that turns the MacBook notch into a small hub, as a solo developer with under 500 followers on X. It finished #16 for the day with 76 points, and I'm at about 20 sales so far.

The traffic surprised me:

X, where I post the most: the tracked link brought 1 vote.
YouTube: my demo video has about 4.6K views, and around 73% of them came from YouTube recommending it for free. I only spent about $11 on a promotion.
Reddit, Hacker News and Indie Hackers all stopped me because my accounts were new. One flagged me as spam, one flagged my post, and one wouldn't let me post.

I'm trying to work out where to put my time next, so two specific questions for makers with a small audience:

p/databox

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15d ago

We finished #1 Product of the Day - thank you! 🎉

Yesterday (September 28th), we launched MCP Connectors by Databox, and you pushed it all the way to #1 Product of the Day. It's our first #1, and we couldn't have done it without you.

Huge thanks to the Databox team and to everyone here who upvoted, commented, asked the hard questions, and connected their first tool. You helped us confirm something we'd suspected for a while: knowing that a number moved isn't enough. People want to know why.

A few things we heard loud and clear:

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19d ago

Does Product Hunt's filter just not trust new engagement yet?

Been noticing something odd lately. Some comments go live instantly, others just sit there, even when they're genuinely written, relevant to the thread, and not remotely spammy. No pattern I can pin down around length, timing, or wording.

Makes me wonder if it's less about the comment itself and more about the account behind it, like whether the system trusts a profile based on age, past activity, or engagement history before it lets new comments through instantly.

Curious if others have noticed a specific time of day, day of week, or type of thread where comments seem to go live faster. Also wondering if this is purely automated filtering, or if there's some manual review happening behind the scenes on certain threads.

Would genuinely like to hear if anyone's found a consistent pattern here, or if it's just inconsistent for everyone and we're all guessing at this point.