I recently saw a marketer with 10k+ followers launch and finish 6th with 348 upvotes. They followed a proper pre-launch and post-launch plan, did everything right, and still the outcome felt unpredictable.
Now I m launching @Curatora next week.
I m not a marketer. I have a little over 1k followers. Of course, asking for support helps. But I also keep hearing that a large part of the Product Hunt community shows up mainly for their own launch, then goes quiet until the next one.
That makes me wonder: how much of success here is strategy, and how much is timing and network effect?
I m Merrick. I work as a data engineer, and I ve been building websites and software for a little over a decade. During the day I m deep in pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation. Nights and weekends are when I build and ship SaaS products through my company, Enterprise Hare LLC.
My goal is simple: build useful products that can eventually replace my day job one launch at a time.
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