Over 900 new PH launches today?!
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Is this normal? I'll be honest I rarely scroll down and click 'show-all' before today. That's a mind-blowing amount of work and dedication that likely won't get much spotlight in the heat of competition.
Do you have any tips for finding the diamonds? Is there anything we can do in the community-sense to ensure good products get seen?
It's suddenly feeling rather intimidating to launch a new product.
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Nine hundred a day is the same problem at a different scale, too much competing for attention with no way to tell what actually matters right now. I built FounderFlow after running a software company, a care home, and a cafe at once, that same feeling every morning, thirty things asking for equal attention when maybe three of them were the real ones. I do not think anyone solves visibility at that volume. I think whoever solves knowing what to look at first wins, for launches and for businesses. What is your own signal for a diamond, upvote count or something else.
@stacywycof83995 Thanks Stacy - that resonates, I'm sure it will with many. So much noise out there and so many things demanding attention there's an absolute inevitability that a bunch of time and effort will be 'wasted'.
Reminds me of the John Wanamaker quote: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." - the same goes for your personal efforts and resources.
@danielboardman That quote is the whole problem in one line. The advertising version at least gets to average it out over enough spend that the wasted half stops mattering. Founders juggling more than one business do not get that luxury, the wasted hour is gone and there is no larger sample size to hide inside. That is the actual gap I am trying to close, not stopping the waste, just making it obvious in time to matter.
@stacywycof83995 hey if you find the secret answer to that then bottle it and make your millions! Wasted money is so easy to quantify when compared to time. Kind of depressing in a way.. BUT the fact you're aware means you're already going to be doing a better job of it. GL!
@danielboardman Ha, I will let this thread know if a bottled version ever exists. Honestly the real answer is smaller than a secret formula, just a system that ranks the few things that matter today and says plainly when it is not sure, instead of pretending certainty it does not have. Good luck with your own launch when it comes, Daniel.
I think these days, the typical advice is to just promote it on social media just as much (if not more) than on Product Hunt, since that's the only way to really stand out.
@jbrio Yeah I'm hearing that a lot - if you don't come with your audience from other platforms then it's a really tough sell.