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Launched on March 21st, 2024
A few of us at Product Hunt are putting on our most brutally honest (but helpful!) hats and roasting landing pages for the next two days. Want in? Drop your link below, and we’ll give you real, no-BS feedback on:
🔥 Clarity – Does your message make sense or sound like corporate soup?🔥 Calls to Action – Do we feel compelled to click, or just… leave?🔥 Design & UX – Smooth experience or rage quit territory?🔥 Anything else – Tell us what you want feedback on.
No ego, no fluff—just straight-up advice to make your page better. Drop your link below 👇
Hi everyone, Gabe here! I lead curating Product Hunt's leaderboard.
First thing I will say is that if I could feature every single product that works, I would. I love supporting makers and demoing products. I actually try to test every single thing that gets hunted every day... which is A TON. But I view our job as to surface the most interesting, novel, useful, and innovative products - daily. Now we may not always get it right, the process isn't perfect, but we're trying to do right by the community.
Hopefully, you've noticed that over the past months the quality of the leaderboard has felt really good. (Please share your thoughts!) Some of the things that I've been doing aside from testing and reviewing products is reaching out to makers to help them with their launches, provide feedback on why something may not be featurable, and help makers craft their best launch as possible. Scalable -> no. Huge impact -> I think so. I'm working with the team on how to create a more scalable version of this but for now just know I try to make myself available to you all.
Top mistakes I've seen
Product is waitlisted
People schedule a draft.... (we have a draft function!)
Maker's profile is their product/business and not an actual user account
Tagline does not describe the product ie. "Best way to earn users" vs "Capture user data with a single button in your iOS app"
Too much marketing jargon, not enough product description / story
NO PRODUCT SHOTS/VIDEOS -> just marketing fluff images
Only one image that is a low quality screenshot
Using a paid service for upvotes/hunters -> this will get you unfeatured or severely impact your launch
Some other notes to consider:
We've gotten stricter on keeping true to our Featuring Guidelines.
We highly recommend making a draft and sharing with folks to make sure it passes the "mom test" -> do they get what you're launching?
If you can quickly Google a solution that similar to what you're launching then really make sure your launch stands out. Focus on highlighting what's special about your product vs being too general.
Highly recommend having a loom or some sort of visual that showcases the start process, the end result your product produces, and what's special about your product.
Be honest, authentic, and have fun.
With all that being said, AMA! I'll try to answer as much as I can without getting fired
Ever since we launched Product Forums, it's been incredible to see how the community has taken to it and started a ton of insightful conversations. So, we wanted to take a moment and highlight some of the most active community forum members from this week who are making the forums awesome!
@busmark_w_nika - Nika was the top contributing member in the forums this week! 👑 They had a very popular thread asking about the impact of AI comments on social media - Are AI comments a (good) future for social media?
@merrill_lutsky - The CEO of @Graphite, Merrill, held a super insightful AMA this week touching on code reviews, dev tools, and AI - You're doing code reviews wrong - AMA w/ CEO of Graphite
@mattisssa - Artem is the maker of @Shorty and kicked off a conversation on @Lovable's product forum about the importance of promotion - Lovable but for Promotion?
@onbing - Yan is the founder of UIPaaS and, along with joining many different threads, was brave enough to offer up his upcoming product for roasting - 🚨 Landing Page Roast: 48 Hours Only 🚨
@movitalis_david_manda - David is the CEO of @Movitalis and kicked off an interesting health & fitness related thread about tracking your VO2 more efficiently - Why you should be tracking your VO2 max - and how to do it better
Want to try and make it into the top next week? Leave useful comments and start interesting threads! We'd love to hear from you!
