When you launched on a product hunt, what successes did it bring you?

The most common success that I noticed with several makers during launch day was:

• an enormous increase in traffic or

• being featured in a newsletter (Product Hunt newsletter)

1. What other benefits did you feel when launching a product on the platform?

2. Those of you who won a badge, did it bring you other successes?

For example, purchases, reaching out to VCs, collaborations, writing about you in mass media?