I built my first real startup, hit #4 on Product Hunt… and here’s what happened next

Earlier this year, I launched CoLaunchly a tool to help solo devs market and launch their apps.

The launch went better than I expected:

🚀 300+ users

💰 $100+ revenue

🏆 #4 Product of the Day

🥈 #2 Marketing Product of the Week

It felt amazing at first… but reality hit. People weren’t sticking around. I burned out trying to do it all solo. Took a break. Still figuring out what’s next.

I wrote a short, honest post about the whole journey from the high of launch day to the low of seeing retention drop and what I learned along the way.

📖 Read it here: https://blog.alexcloudstar.com/my-first-real-startup-the-rise-and-flatline-of-colaunchly

If you’ve launched on PH before, I’d love to hear:

What happened after launch day for you? Did users stick? Did things fade?

Let’s make this a real talk about what comes after the upvotes.