We all love reading the "#1 Product of the Day" success stories. They are inspiring, but they often suffer from survivor bias.
Sometimes, the most brutal failures offer the best blueprints.
The day before Publora s incredible #1 launch, we launched our own product, AEO Table. Our modest target was 50+ upvotes. We ended up with 9 upvotes and 2 comments. To make it sting more, most of those 9 upvotes came from our own team.
No secondhand theories here. Here is the exact post-mortem of how we screwed up, so you don't have to.
For the past two decades, the holy grail of growth was simple: rank #1 on Google. We mastered keywords, backlink building, and technical SEO.
But look around. The landscape just shifted under our feet.
When users want to find the "best project management tool for remote dev teams," they aren't clicking through ten blue links anymore. They are asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, or Gemini. And they are taking the single answer given to them as gospel.
We all love reading the "#1 Product of the Day" success stories. They are inspiring, but they often suffer from survivor bias.
Sometimes, the most brutal failures offer the best blueprints.
The day before Publora s incredible #1 launch, we launched our own product, AEO Table. Our modest target was 50+ upvotes. We ended up with 9 upvotes and 2 comments. To make it sting more, most of those 9 upvotes came from our own team.
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