We recently learned that getting a clean HTTP 200 response doesn't mean your database actually saved the changes.
In our setup, missing security rules and webhook edge cases caused multiple user updates to fail quietly without leaving a single trace in the logs. We had to change our approach and start reading back saved records or checking affected row counts to verify every write.
I joined Product Hunt in September, so it has been a little over a month. I was looking for a place to be active when launching products in English-speaking markets, and while I knew the name, I had never actually used it.
I have bought over 200 products on AppSumo, and some of them showed their Product Hunt ranking. That's how I knew of it.
For the past month I've been watching the products that launch here and the people who are active in the forums. From what I can see, there are a few ways to make a launch go well:
I am not really big on promoting myself or what i do, but in this day and age you can have the best app/idea on earth and if no one will get to it then it's nothing. So what do you do? How do you promote? on a budget.
