... what s frustrating them. Make 2 YouTube videos: one explaining the problem, and another showing a demo so people understand how to use the tool. Post in a developer community. Not to get roasted, but to learn what growth tactics have worked for other extension creators If you ve ever marketed a Chrome extension, what helped you get the majority of your active users? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @abdullah_javaid3  But did you optimise SEO also ... ... than backlinks, so the SEO work there looks different even though the word is the same. On page inspiration, I don't have a curated list memorized. What actually worked for me was pulling up 2 to 3 direct competitors

... other people's threads did real traffic. One thing that makes the asymmetry worse than you've laid out. On PH, leaving a comment makes you follow that thread's author and their product, not the reverse. So the tactic with ten times the reach is also the one quietly building somebody else's list instead of yours. Which leaves a real chicken and egg. Comments buy reach but no list. Threads build a list but don't work until ... ... your product about? :) You need to be sure there is your target audience :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @emircankaragoz  You are welcome! :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @venkat_a2  I think you are doing right tactic

... spent the past few weeks digging into how people land jobs that never make it to a job board trying to separate the tactics that actually work from the recycled "80% of jobs are hidden" stat that gets repeated a lot without much evidence behind it. For those who've actually done it: what worked? A referral, a cold email straight to the hiring manager, a tip from someone inside? Trying to figure out which of these still hold ... ... versus

... making the whole post about selling. Comment from Anna Ludwinowski(@anna_ludwinowski): @busmark_w_nika  Thanks - some good conversations in that thread! Comment from Anna Ludwinowski(@anna_ludwinowski): Hi @busmark_w_nika Something I noticed was that every tactic on your list is about placement [where the link goes, when the CTA shows up, how often you post]. But none of them touch the actual discomfort, which is why promoting feels like drawing attention to yourself, and you were ... ... raised not to do that. That's worth naming out loud, actually, because it might be the more honest hook than any of the tactics

... face-to-face. If I had to mumble through an explanation, then nope, out it goes. But let's be real that this line moves more than I'd like to admit. Sometimes I've talked myself into "urgency" tactics that were a little manufactured, or onboarding flows that nudged harder than they needed to. The slope is real and I'm not standing as cleanly above it as I'd ideally like to be. And there's a genuine ... ... cost. Competitors

... Been wrestling with deliverability lately. Warmup, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, dedicated IPs vs shared, sending volume ramps. It's a deceptively deep rabbit hole. I'm curious what's actually working for people in 2026 versus

... live on PH Aug 22, so this thread's been good practice at saying it in one paragraph.) Comment from Demetrio Koro(@aktivist): siOsi upload one selfie and it reads your 12-season color type, undertone, gold vs silver, and which hair colors suit you, then grades the actual makeup in the photo (flash cast, oxidation, coverage), which most tools skip. Free, no signup. Built it because every beauty sub has a queue of "what season am I" posts waiting ... ... Gemini, since more buying decisions now start there instead of traditional search. If you want to see how an AI agent currently reads your own site, we put out a free tool that shows what an AI fetches vs

... obsolete." Bing added GEO to its official guidelines and built a dashboard inside Webmaster Tools to track Copilot citations. At first glance, they seem to contradict each other. They are not. What Google is saying Google is talking about tactics. Most "GEO hacks" sold by agencies do not move AI Overviews. Why? Because AI Overviews lean on the same ranking signals as classic search. Content quality, relevance, authority, trust. The fundamentals have not changed. The quick fixes do not work ... ... going away. Layer GEO on top as your instrumentation. Track how your content gets cited inside AI answers. Use that data to inform what you write, how you structure it, and where you publish. Skip the shortcut tactics

... Reddit (for LLM search visibility and similar reasons). One of the suggestions was to look for high-karma accounts and possibly buy them to appear more credible when posting and mentioning the product within the posts/comments. It s a tactic, sure, but to me it already feels like it crosses an ethical line. I sometimes worry they can seriously damage a company s reputation. There are also other practices, such as: Fake purchase counters on websites Buying followers and likes ... ... Exploiting a brand s reputation Spreading misinformation Clicking on competitors

... spent days coding, but sometimes you just have to choose shipping over perfection. I d love to know your strategies: 1 Has anyone successfully implemented a referral/reward system that Apple actually approves? 2 If not, what are your best alternative strategies for organic growth without relying on invite loops? Let s share some App Store survival tactics

... emmerita_ambata): This has me thinking differently. As a marketer, I'm all for founder-led content, especially on LinkedIn. I've seen firsthand how much growth and visibility a product gains when a human is talking about it versus posting from a company page where someone is essentially interacting with a logo. I tested both approaches with my first startup. Initially, we hid behind the product; no names in emails, no faces on the landing page. Growth was painfully ... ... create attention, but not always truth. If you stay invisible for too long, growth can become harder because trust, distribution, and early community are weaker than they could be. So I don t see it as brand first vs

... most important and challenging experiences you ll have as a founder is fundraising. I pitched VCs across London and San Francisco. Some spent 15 seconds on my deck. Some took the call just to diligence a competitor. One told me to ask for more money. Oh, and I found out your pitch is probably being recorded and run through AI. This is the high-impact version of all of those lessons to save you time, energy, and emotional damage. Please ... ... only ever wanted to raise as much as we needed. That felt disciplined to me. But it s actually an unpopular founder decision. And interestingly, VCs often told me to ask for more. Raising earlier is also a strong tactic

... thought we knew We assumed enterprise customers wanted the same things as our small business users, just more of it. More security. More control. More features. We never talked to them. We read blog posts. We looked at competitor pricing pages. We guessed. Here's what we missed: Procurement cycles. Enterprise deals take 6-12 months. We had 30-day sales cycles. We weren't built for that. Security reviews. We needed SOC2. We didn't have it. Customers asked ... ... customer research. You didn't need ten enterprise deals. You needed one honest conversation with someone who actually had to get a vendor approved. Comment from Umadhav Salapu(@umadhav): Classic build trap optimizing for the customer you want vs

... built StratlyPulse . It s a marketing co-pilot that prioritizes Rationale over Content. Instead of just generating text, it uses a high-inference framework (leveraging Gemini 3.1 Pro) to focus on Magnitude vs. Direction. It cross-references your niche with actual market mechanics to tell you why a specific move like a niche Reddit hack or a specific Meta A/B test is the mathematically correct choice for your growth stage. Why I m posting here: We hit 100 customers ... ... celebrate the launch, I m opening a window to get our Pro Plan for just $9 for the first month. What s in the Pro Plan: Full Rationale Engine: No more guessing. Get the "Why" behind every tactic

... cycles yes, to create a more comprehensive picture and possible marketing mix for me. Specifically in your industry, what marketing activities have worked to grow your product? [write product/industry, in which product life cycle stage did it work, marketing tactic] Comment from Priyanshu Singh(@priyanshu_singh23): b2b saas, early stage, the one thing that worked before anything else was finding conversations where people were already describing the problem we solve. not outbound, not ads. just being present in the right ... ... users, but also the existing ones to improve awareness and strengthen the position. Comment from Viktoriia (@virtualviki): SelfOS lifestyle app (iOS + Android) - early stage (~3 months in) What worked: Niche Telegram channels under 5K subscribers: $0.21/install vs

... some may be useful, others less so depending on usage. I m fully aware that cleaner/optimizer apps can be controversial, so I focused on a different approach: fully local (no tracking, no data collection) no fake alerts or scare tactics no background daemons more of a toolbox than a one-click fix I m launching the app tomorrow on Product Hunt, but it is already available the app is in French and English and would really appreciate any feedback Comment ... ... from Rian Robertson(@rianbrob): Neat take on a macOS toolbox...love the focus on transparency and no BS tactics

... language people actually ask , not just what they type . Finding #5: One URL Can Carry You For Superwhisper, one single Product Hunt URL drove 1.6% of their ChatGPT visibility and 5.5% of Google AI Overview visibility. Compare that to competitors relying on dozens of Reddit threads and YouTube links. The signal: LLMs consider Product Hunt pages to have high authenticity and authority. One well-structured page outperforms dozens of lower-quality sources. Finding #6: Model Behavior Is Volatile ChatGPT updates ... ... visibility sources. Don't rely on one platform. Product Hunt gave Wispr a hedge against model volatility. Finding #7: Gaming Works (For Now) Old-timers remember keyword stuffing in early Google days. LLMs are in the same phase. Common tactic

... answer about your category includes comparisons. Always. When someone asks "best CRM for agencies," AI doesn't list one tool. It lists 3-5. And it compares them. The data: Content Type Citation Rate Pages with comparison tables +470% vs. average Pages that mention competitors

... acts as one unit. They all review my posts, even this one. The following is a semi-structured list of all the things we ve done in the last seven months. Not a perfect playbook. Just a bunch of tactics with some views. 1. Narrative and PR I m putting this first because I think story is the most contagious thing you can do for your product. It gives people an easy way to talk about you. That matters ... ... have something to pull from. We also added a button on our site that generates a ChatGPT query to encourage more people to ask about Meet-Ting directly. Final thought The main thing is that there isn t one tactic

... just letting it rip . I m very curious whether others have struggled with free trial versus freemium and whether doing both is a bad idea (I m leaning towards that being a yes by the way). I also wonder if we are giving away too much for free and should be feature gating more. The challenge then shifts from a pricing perspective vs

... plays a significant role in how products appear in Google search results. What surprised us was that AI assistants like ChatGPT were rarely citing Product Hunt in product recommendations. AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Gemini rely on reviews, alternative lists, and structured product information gathered across the web. Product Hunt is strong across all three. In theory, this should make Product Hunt a natural source for AI-driven product recommendations and comparisons. In practice, it was not happening ... ... many tools which systematically run prompts against several AI models daily, and measure visibility of a product within prompts. We're using a new tool called @Gauge . We chose because a) their citation tracking is more useful than the alternatives

... signing up to your waitlist. 3. Your job on launch day is to be present and human: respond to every single comment, answer questions, show gratitude. Treat it like a conversation not a campaign. On your question about strategy vs. network effect: it's both, but the network effect is compounding and the strategy is just making sure you don't self-sabotage. Good luck with Curatora next week! I'm also pre-launch with Suitegenie and will be rooting ... ... needle wasn t blasting links it was personal DMs and genuine engagement before and during launch day. Comment from Samantha Alexander(@samtalksfood): Found this thread super helpful - we just launched today & I used a lot of the tactics

... Coming from nothing is an art. I honestly wish more awards and recognition went to emerging brands as well as the big guns. You don t have big teams, fancy tools, or unlimited budgets. It s pure internet ninja tactics. And with AI-generated content flooding our feeds, marketing becomes even more critical. Not louder. Smarter. More human. The marketing superpowers that matter now If you re an aspiring marketer, or hiring one, these are the skills that matter these ... ... petrova3  That meme is ELITE. And love the perspective - thank you! Comment from Dan Bulteel(@dbul): @arungopidas  Haha now we both are! Comment from Narmin Farzaliyeva (@narminfarz4): Anyone can generate content now, but knowing what's right vs

... your industry) and honestly ask for feedback, either through reviews or comments. P.S. Having an active Hunter also helps. And what about your preparation? Do you rely only on your followers and presence, or do you also take multiple tactical steps to maximise success? (I personally believe that combining both approaches is the best way to achieve optimal results.) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @oprincew  Public posts were like 3 weeks before, personal messages in the rage ... ... detection signals and even un-feature your product. That s why I would also advise avoiding mass sharing in various Telegram, WhatsApp, or Discord groups. Reaching out to other founders and makers in the community is a very good tactic

... eliminate them. Too many founders give up control because they raise money before they build leverage, clarity, or negotiating power. Timing matters. Structure matters. Understanding the trade-offs matters. How Founders Secure Capital Without Losing Control This guide explores alternative funding paths, smarter timing, and the strategic decisions that protect ownership, direction, and decision-making authority. Growth & Capital in Regulated Innovation Environments Some founders play on hard mode. If you re building in a regulated space especially health tech ... ... momentum Smart capital strategy preserves control Regulatory awareness protects long-term viability Each piece reinforces the others. Miss one, and the whole system weakens. This hub is designed to help founders think like builders of systems , not chasers of tactics