What are the most remarkable outcomes when being present on Product Hunt?
I remember the era when people on X started gossiping that this platform is dead. (IMO, they were just angry that some rules had changed and they weren't featured.)
I can speak for myself that, being here for more than 3 years, I have had many opportunities:
got free access to many tools or were sent physical products
had calls and touch with the members of the community and also the internal team, including the CEO
was encouraged to create a hackathon (last year)
recongition
there were also many missed opportunities from my side to hunt products
featuring in newsletter with 140k+ recipients – strengthening my personal brand position
What outcomes have you experienced from being on Product Hunt?
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Scarlett.
Product Hunt has also brought me a lot of value over the years Nika!
Most importantly, access to people.
It gave me the chance to build an incredible network, work with ambitious founders and talented teams, become more recognizable in the tech community (plus appearing on several podcasts talking about Product Hunt), and constantly discover and test new products.
But the people are still the most valuable part for me.
The community is full of incredibly smart, ambitious, and inspiring makers/builders /, founders.Many of the best opportunities, collaborations, and relationships I have today started here.
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@byalexai You said everything in these paragraphs. And nothing is more satisfying than meeting those people IRL. You and @elitza_vasileva are living example! :)
Scarlett.
@elitza_vasileva @busmark_w_nika Absolutely, Nika! It was a great meeting! Real-life energy hits completely different!
Still pretty new here but already the most valuable thing has been real conversations with builders who actually engage. Way better than shouting into the void on other platforms.
Got genuine replies, upvotes from people I didn't know, and feedback that actually helped. For auriko.pro it's been the best place to show up consistently and let the product speak for itself rather than feeling like I'm spamming.
The community here actually reads what you write which is rare 💛
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@auriko_app Happy to hear that you see real outcomes. What are your next steps? :)
@busmark_w_nika the next steps are growing to 1,000 students before school starts in September! The Product Hunt community has been way more engaged than anywhere else we've tried. Any tips on converting visitors to actual signups? 🙏
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@auriko_app Do you offer them trial before paying?
@busmark_w_nika
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@fabriziopfannl I love the vibe. I was able to call with the CEO or other people inside, so it was amazing for me too :D
mine's less glamorous but the daily habit of leaving real comments on launches has made me a much better at asking specific questions instead of generic praise - forces you to actually read what the maker built instead of skimming the tagline. the compounding thing for me has been small technical exchanges with makers that turn into an actual conversation days later, way more useful than the initial comment itself.
@galdayan This matches what I'm finding, even as a newcomer. Writing a thoughtful comment forces me to slow down and understand what the maker actually built, and forming that one specific question has taught me more than the replies I get back. It's quietly changed how I read my own product too.
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@galdayan Do you apply any of those replies on your product?
@busmark_w_nika i hope so :)
Twelve days in, so here is the newcomer data point. I came to warm up a fresh account before my first launch (it is this Wednesday) and expected a checkbox exercise. What actually happened: two founders whose launches I commented on came back with long, serious replies, one of them turned our exchange into two new forum threads, and a handful of those conversations taught me more about my own product's positioning than the previous month of building did. And an honest share of it started in YOUR threads, which is its own outcome: this place has connectors who compound everyone else's presence. Ask me again after Wednesday for the launch-side answer.
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@virko_kask This is a honour for me, that you started under my discussion posts. And I need to say that you contributed many useful things, I am happy because of that :)
The honour is mine, Nika. Your threads are the reason a brand-new account found real conversations instead of silence, and that is a rare thing to build. I launch tomorrow morning, so in a way this is the graduation from the two weeks I spent learning here. Thank you for making the room what it is.
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@virko_kask aaaaw, that is so encouriging thank you! I will try my best not to be rejected when I contribute threads by the internal team :D
So far I am on PH for 1 month, I am observing a lot on this platform. People are open minded, feedback is useful and a lot of engaging and interesting discussions with people from my field. I love this community and it is a pity I have not noticed this platform earlier.
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@makimum_dev I had the same thoughts after joining here in 2022. But it is better to be late than never discover something useful like Product Hunt :)
I'm new here so still early, but launching Fluxerv this week already brought in conversations I wouldn't have had otherwise. A few thoughtful comments on the launch page, some connections on LinkedIn and Twitter, and honestly just the discipline of having a real deadline to ship something publicly.
The outcome I didn't expect: the community engagement here feels more genuine than most platforms. People actually read what you're building.
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@mpanpalli Very important question: When is the launch? 👀
@busmark_w_nika It was June 16th, almost a month ago now! Still digesting the lessons from it.
I am really new to this platform but still feeling that this platform does have some serious value
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@arshad_talpur When you persist here, you will see many outcomes :)
still early here but the thing that's actually stuck is technical questions from other makers surfacing edge cases we hadn't thought about, way more useful than the upvote count. the recognition is nice but the free QA from strangers who actually build things is the real prize.
@sabber_ahamed same here. those really specific, technical questions are the ones I trust the most. No one makes that kind of effort just for upvotes.
But I’m curious - after being here for a while, can you actually tell the difference between someone who’s genuinely trying to understand if your product is worth using, and someone who’s just asking a smart-sounding question to get noticed?
BetterClaw
One thing that's stood out to me is how much easier it becomes to connect with other builders. Even if a launch isn't a massive hit, the conversations, feedback, and relationships often end up being more valuable than the upvotes themselves. I've also discovered tools and collaborators I probably wouldn't have found otherwise. For me, Product Hunt has been more about the community than just launch day metrics.
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@worksforme And as more people discover the platform, you can make new friends :)