👋 Hi PH,
Me, @rdev and lot of other makers were very stressed when we launched products on Product Hunt because we always forgot to add some screenshot, video, texts or some other detail.
But we realize this only after launch and start to change it in the real time in a 😅 big stress.
🛠 Solution
We made a tool that Preview and Prepare your Product Hunt submission. You can edit and preview all content in the real-time and download it when it will be ready. So now we can prepare our launches upfront and make sure that everything is 👌perfect.
No more Inspect Element.
🎁 Features:
- Live preview of a product while editing
- Guided editor with tips
- Thumbnail validation
- Image cropping
- Preview page just as it's live on Product Hunt
- Validate Twitter card and Facebook debugger
- Time in Product Hunt timezone
- Downloadable Launch Kit. All your content organized in a convenient file (in TXT, HTML and Markdown formats), your cropped images and a thumbnail, along with some useful pre-launch materials
🖼 Pages built with Preview Hunt
- Tesla Roadster: https://previewhunt.com/posts/te...
- Tesla Semi: http://previewhunt.com/posts/tes...
- Progress Bar OSX: http://previewhunt.com/posts/pro...
🙏 Let me know what do you think. Could it be useful for your future launches?
Disclaimer: Preview Hunt is not a part of Product Hunt and is not affiliated with it in any way. We made it because we really miss this feature in Product Hunt and hope to see it soon in next updates.
@rdev@andreyazimov this is great guys. My team is very excited about having something like this to share with others before a hunt. How does this compare to something like Ship? Does it replace it or compliment it?
Using this right now--thank you! One question: When making the preview page, the warning message seems like the page will be set in stone after I hit Create. It's only for Preview Hunt, correct? If I delete the page, will my input still be there (text, photos) to make changes and post another page?
@oleksandr_senyuk Your editor data is saved locally when you close the page, so you are able to make changes and publish a preview page again.
The actual created preview data and files are purged once you delete the page.
Hi, PH 🙌🏻
I'm the co-maker of Preview Hunt and I gotta say, this was a really exciting project to build.
It's always exciting to build something that solves a problem that I myself have, and boy did I have a problem with stressful Product Hunt launches 😅
When building this we wanted to create a tool that will be as smooth and easy to use as possible, while being actually helpful. So we came up with the idea of a realtime editor.
But then @andreyazimov suggested the idea of "baked" pages that can be used for Twitter Card Validator or shared with your team members and I was like "holy shit, this is awesome!"
So we did it 🎉
Realtime editor will guide you through each field and help prepare the right launch materials which you can then package, download and be ready to go once the timer hits midnight PST (which we also show you 🕐)
Be sure to give it a shot and check examples like this Nomad List page I shamelessly copied from @levelsio's launch.
Hope you find this tool as useful as we do and you can nail that next launch 🙏
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@andreyazimov@levelsio@rdev Awesome guys! The world will always be a better place with people that think like you do.
I used it to check if everything is ok before we posted Y-Productive. Now it's the #1 Product of the Day ;)
Pros:
Clean and no-hassle way to check if your product will look nice and shiny before posting it on ProductHunt
Cons:
none
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This is a great tool to get #ProductHunt posts prepared well. An un-post option within 15 minutes would make posting perfect. And no jet lag with time at @ProductHunt ;)
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This is just a great idea for users to see what their product will look like before it's on ProductHunt :)
Pros:
Awesome, easy to remember name
Cons:
None that I can see
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Super cool! I love that you turned "failure" into success, with a product that helped address your original problems. I assume you used Preview Hunt to preview Preview Hunt. How meta. :)
I'm planning a launch in a few weeks, so I'll definitely use this!
Marc
I used it to check if everything is ok before we posted Y-Productive. Now it's the #1 Product of the Day ;)
Pros:Clean and no-hassle way to check if your product will look nice and shiny before posting it on ProductHunt
Cons:none
This is just a great idea for users to see what their product will look like before it's on ProductHunt :)
Pros:Awesome, easy to remember name
Cons:None that I can see