I keep going back and forth in my head, does this even make sense? Or are we just walking into a quiet launch no one will see?

I ve seen people with big audiences still land in the middle, so I honestly don t understand how much of this is preparation and how much is just luck.

If you ve launched before, would you ship anyway? Or spend time building some momentum first?

I recently saw a marketer with 10k+ followers launch and finish 6th with 348 upvotes. They followed a proper pre-launch and post-launch plan, did everything right, and still the outcome felt unpredictable.

Now I m launching @Curatora next week.

I m not a marketer. I have a little over 1k followers. Of course, asking for support helps. But I also keep hearing that a large part of the Product Hunt community shows up mainly for their own launch, then goes quiet until the next one.

That makes me wonder: how much of success here is strategy, and how much is timing and network effect?

I m curious how people actually preserve family history right now.

Is it:

Mostly oral stories that get forgotten over time?
Scattered documents and photos?
A proper family tree somewhere online?
Or nowhere just something you mean to do one day ?

Would love to understand what s real.