Kevin McDonagh

To promote our Product Hunt launch of Vibe Check today, we are offering free evaluations. We are looking for Vibe Coded prototypes to promote and discover their time to value. To take part, just share the link and what journey you'd like to test and we'll provide a link and report on your UX performance analytics.

Here's an example for Vibe Tickets

A thinking simulation like this and a UX performance report like this.

Every day, after launching, makers are contacted on LinkedIn and X by people offering to sell votes. As the Product Hunt team, we are very much aware of this and really hate it. We have systems in place to neutralize this type of gaming. Every vote counts for a different number of points on Product Hunt. A couple examples:

• An account with a recently created gmail address and no history of quality contributions on Product Hunt: this vote will count for 0 points. Yes, this might be a well intentioned user, but we take a conservative approach to protect the community. If the account has a company email or applies for verification on Product Hunt, that's a different story.

• An account with a company email address linked to a legitimate LinkedIn account with a history of meaningful contributions on Product Hunt: this vote carries significant weight.

A couple questions for the community:

• Are there specific accounts on Product Hunt that you suspect participate in vote selling? You can reply here or email report@producthunt.co

• What would you want to see us do differently here?

Most people talk about don't sell your app with lifetime deal. But let me talk about "Oskar Moen" today who raised $270,000 in just 23 days.

Honestly, no one talk about how to get investment to grow SaaS. Without investment or liquid money its really tough to build SaaS, market that and get users on that. So how you will build or improve your SaaS? So for this kind of situation Founder should sell product as a lifetime deal. Then they can get huge amount of money for their next step. They can invest that on team, marketing and planning.

Get back to Oskar Moen, I salute to this guy . He launched Sendpilot on appsumo recently. And noticed in just 23 days he raised $270,000 and thats insane . I checked his message on appsumo slack channel how he did this.

Here is that:
1. When a user bought deal from appsumo he asked for a review.
2. When a user asked questions or need support he answered that in just 2 mins avg.
3. After support he mentioned about reviews.