... Within hours, ExtraBar climbed to 5th place for Product of the Day and earned the "Launch of the Day" award. The response was overwhelming in the best possible way: 100 paying users in the first 3 days A dozen comments and feedback messages Feature requests flooded my Notion board Reviewed by others on Reddit and personal blogs. A community that immediately "got it" I'm not going to lie I'm still processing it all. The validation from the Product ... ... solo indie developer working nights and weekends. What I Learned from 100+ Conversations The most valuable part wasn't the ranking. It was the feedback. I spent launch day (and the days after) responding to every single comment

... while ago, I commented on a product launch here on PH. I was genuinely interested, so I asked a question about the product and wished the team good luck. I just wanted to be supportive and know more about what they were doing. The day after the launch, one of the team members added me on LinkedIn, and I accepted. They thanked me for my interest and asked if I d be open to a partnership . Sounded great ... ... became clear that partnership meant different things to us: For them: You test our product with your clients. For me: We collaborate, share clients, build something together. That experience made me realize something important: Not all launch-day comments

... Chapter 1: The Problem of not progressing After launch, my goal was to get as much new people to try Rolyai as I possibly could. To do that I did the following: I created 2 Twitter posts everyday I commented on 10+ Tweets of other people everyday I created a PH post every few days I answered all comments

... newbie @mattt_lim (about a month old) and it feels like Product Hunt is playing hard to get with me Here's what I'm experiencing: My posts only appear publicly about 12 hours after I write them My comments show up days later Today I got a notification for a comment