What I Learned Relaunching My App on Product Hunt After 3 Years
First of all, I want to thank you for voting for us in yesterday's launch - you still can, the week is not over. 👉 HERE
Second thing, I summarised some things that I realised, reflected on, and maybe should have known sooner:
There is still a large, strong supporting community in the first place.
( @marclou , who is widely known and has 263k followers on X, showed us this yesterday – none of us had a chance)
Asking for help in DMs still works.
Contributing to Reddit didn't help that much.
People in WA groups are supportive; they even respond by saying that they voted.
It would definitely help if we had an external hunter (and not just me)
It would help if we launched on Weekend – not because of the badge, but because of the character/category – productivity solutions are doing better at that time.
What surprised me?
In general, after the launch, at least 7 people contacted me offering to help boost the launch. Prices ranged from $40 to $450 and up. They even got into the private email of the founder, who is quite sensitive about sharing that one.
What pleasantly surprised me was the help from @konrad_sx – thank you so much for your proactive approach.
We ended up 6th on that day, and I hugely appreciate that because the competition was strong and the week was pretty busy.
Thank you so much, guys!
Just out of curiosity:
Do you try your best to position yourself after the launch day as well? (for the launch of the week, month, etc.)
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