About to launch my first developer tool, any advice from experienced launchers here?

Hey Product Hunt community 👋

I'm Omkar, a MERN stack developer who just launched my first ever paid product: a production-grade auth boilerplate.

Spent years rebuilding authentication from scratch on every single project. JWT confusion, refresh token bugs, Google OAuth errors at 1 AM.

So I finally packaged it properly and charged money for it. Terrifying honestly.

What's inside:

• Refresh token reuse detection

• Google OAuth with CSRF verification

• Email enumeration protection

• Demo mode — zero external services needed

• TypeScript throughout

• 15 integration tests and much more...

Before I do a real PH launch I want to learn from people who've done it.

A few questions for experienced launchers here:

• How many followers did you have before your first launch?

• What time did you launch and did it matter?

• What's the one thing you'd do differently before your first launch?

Genuinely grateful for any advice.

This community intimidates me a little but seems like the best place to learn and grow.

#MERN #NodeJS #ReactJS #WebDev #JavaScript