8 tips when designing your Product Hunt launch

André J
15 replies
1. Unique Selling Proposition (USP) Users will only switch to your product if they can easily understand how your product is different or better than what they already use today. The differentiator. 2. Clarity Clarity is the most underrated priority on Product Hunt. Almost everyone overcommunicates what their product does. Clarity is hard. So that might be why everyone mostly fails on this one. Asking for a lot of feedback early can help distill your communication to reach ultimate clarity. And people scan. So make sure your tag-line conveys what the product solves. I.e: AI-Picasso - "Make Picasso art with a single prompt" 3. Innovation If you have some attribute that has not been done before or is done in a "new way", shout it from the rooftops. It doesn't have to be nuclear fission. And it won't be your moat forever. But innovative features are "mind viruses". people remember them. And talk about them to their peers and friends. 4. Communication Be Succinct, "under-communicated", and communicate in threes. 1.2.3 etc. Use visuals. Create narratives. Make it easily digestible. People skim, so you have 2 seconds to entice people to want to learn more about your product. Hook them in, and then elaborate later. 6. Usefulness Just highlight what your ICP struggles with and then provide info on how you solve it. Problem/solution. Very simple. Yet most fail this one and try to market their product to everyone, and fail to impress anyone. 7. Completeness Your product has to work. Don't f**k up the FTUX (first-time user experience). Don't hide your product behind "email walls" or paywalls. Make it easy to try. And don't have any bugs. Other communities might be better suited for beta-testing your product. 8. Make it cool People like to be cool. And to be cool, you need to use cool stuff. This is probably the hardest one. Cool is subtle, its in the name, its in the packaging, you can often just feel it. What about you? What do you look for when checking out new launches? 🙏👇

Replies

Haralds Gabrāns Zukovs
wow, great points! Thank you @sentry_co
Share
André J
Launching soon!
@haralds_gabrans_zukovs 💁🏼‍♂️ My pleasure! I just wrote it down as constraints for my own launch...coming in may / June 🚀
Share
Daniel S
@haralds_gabrans_zukovs @sentry_co I know it's been a huge journey for you, Andre. Thanks for sharing your lessons.
Share
Rajat Dangi 🛠️
Thanks for posting this! Really helpful as we are about to announce Mockey AI Pro on PH.
Yami Sun
Launching soon!
Thank you for the informative post. We're launching "Cascad3 - A decentralized inspiration-driven publishing platform" on Product Hunt soon. Let's collaborate! I would appreciate your support and feedback by clicking the "Notify Me" button to stay tuned and be the first to know when Cascad3 debuts on the stage.👇 bit.ly/cascad3 Thank you! Best regards, Yami
Share
ᗰᗩ᙭ ᒍ.
#2 I think is a really important point, I said this somewhere before but on ProductHunt your Logo and Tagline are the Thumbnail and Title of YouTube videos. If MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson spends around $10,000 per thumbnail for his clips, and generating up to 20 thumbnail variations for each upload. All this to maximize click through rate. You should be A/B testing your Logo and Tagline the same. (maybe not 10k per but still) Be the MrBeast of ProductHunt!!!
Share
André J
Launching soon!
@maxjacobs Thanks for sharing that insight. I love that Mr.Beast spends a lot of money on content. Similar to M. Night Shyamalan. He spends every dollar he gains on making the next movie even better. I wish to do the same in startup. The current funds the next and so on.
Austin Armstrong
Great tips! For newbies make sure that you have fu as well and meet as many people as you could here
Vlada D
Launching soon!
Thanks for your advices!
Ryan Zhang
André, these 8 tips are incredibly insightful and practical for anyone looking to launch on Product Hunt. It's clear that a lot of thought and experience went into crafting them, and they're bound to be a game-changer for many.
Share
Maurizio Isendoorn
Amazing, I'll certainly keep this in mind!
Share
Cara (Borenstein) Marin
This is a great resource, thank you!
Share