I m deciding how long a free trial should last, and I keep coming back to how often someone actually needs the product.
Seven days can mean seven chances to get value from a daily tool. For something used in a weekly meeting, it might mean just one.
My background is in sales management. When you agree on a coaching action with someone, the value doesn t end with that conversation. You need to follow up the next week and see whether anything changed.
That s why I m leaning toward 30 days for the product I m building. It gives people a chance to experience several weekly cycles.
I joined Product Hunt in September, so it has been a little over a month. I was looking for a place to be active when launching products in English-speaking markets, and while I knew the name, I had never actually used it.
I have bought over 200 products on AppSumo, and some of them showed their Product Hunt ranking. That's how I knew of it.
For the past month I've been watching the products that launch here and the people who are active in the forums. From what I can see, there are a few ways to make a launch go well:
Hey PH Community! I'm Andreas, CEO & co-founder of toddle - a next-gen visual web development platform that rivals custom code. We built toddle because we wondered why a text editor is the best tool to build visual web apps. Coders have long had the best development tools and are far superior to people who build visually. We wanted to build a platform that would level the playing field. You can try the tool at toddle.dev and join us tomorrow when we officially launch on Product Hunt! But before then, let's chat about what programmers need to be efficient and why it s missing in past nocode tools or what I had for breakfast. I m here to answer any and all of your questions; fire away!
I've run a freelance marketplace in Japan since 2004, but all of it in Japanese. I joined Product Hunt in September to figure out how to reach English-speaking users, so today is day 26 for me.
I knew about selling through places like AppSumo, but I'd never really been part of a community like this one. A few weeks in, I can see two kinds of people here. Some just want to promote their stuff. Others actually want to help each other, and I'd like to be in that second group.
@busmark_w_nika and @adana were the first to really talk with me. Yesterday @adana remembered I'd applied to AppSumo and asked me for news in one of @rafik_mkhitaryan 's threads, and it turned into a long back and forth. I don't know many people in the English-speaking world yet, so that kind of thing surprised me in a good way.
For those of you who've been here longer, what made Product Hunt click for you?
I don't know about you, but I feel like I've been working non-stop for years now, and I don't know how I'm able to do it. And it's often because I include activities in my daily life that make my work more enjoyable or break up the monotony.
For example:
I exercise every day (and listen to video casts about tech, business, and marketing in the background)
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