Rafik Mkhitaryan

I lived outside Japan from 2011 to 2023. The first few years were basically digital nomad life, running my company remotely from wherever I was.

Eventually I figured out that all that traveling mostly just added to my own experience. The world didn't change because I moved around lol. What I really wanted was to make things that change something for other people, so I stopped moving and now I mostly stay home and build.

I've run a freelance marketplace in Japan since 2004, but all of it in Japanese. I joined Product Hunt in September to figure out how to reach English-speaking users, so today is day 26 for me.

I knew about selling through places like AppSumo, but I'd never really been part of a community like this one. A few weeks in, I can see two kinds of people here. Some just want to promote their stuff. Others actually want to help each other, and I'd like to be in that second group.

@busmark_w_nika and @adana were the first to really talk with me. Yesterday @adana remembered I'd applied to AppSumo and asked me for news in one of @rafik_mkhitaryan 's threads, and it turned into a long back and forth. I don't know many people in the English-speaking world yet, so that kind of thing surprised me in a good way.

For those of you who've been here longer, what made Product Hunt click for you?

A friend of mine launched there a few years ago, and they were really happy with the results. At some point, they even considered AppSumo one of their main growth engines.

So now I m wondering how it looks today.