Those, who successfully landed in the top 10 on the Product Hunt – which benefits you had?
Apart from featuring in the Product Hunt newsletter and some awareness.
What measurable (long-term) outcomes did you get?
E.g. apart from increased traffic it could be:
– XY long-term users
– collaboration claimed
– investors who gave you XY amount of money
Share your highlights that stemmed from the ranking.
For us (minimalist phone), we use the PH 1 badge in the category Productivity as the build truster in each AppStore, Play Store visuals + on our web or Media kits (Press releases) to build authority.
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Great question, Nika. This is actually the main thing I track with the teams I work with: the business results behind the launch. That’s what really tells us whether a launch was successful.
For example, with own.page generated 1,900 signups.
With Gauth, we received 2 partnership requests from Y Combinator companies.
We also regularly get inbound collaboration requests from creators on YouTube, X, and LinkedIn.
And on the investor side, one of our recent launches generated 5 inbound requests from investors.
So yes, a strong launch can bring a lot more than just upvotes and rankings.
@byalexai Do you have long-term relationships with those investors? Or did you reject them?
We're in the middle of our launch right now, so I don't have the numbers yet. Bookmarking this one to come back once the dust settles. Hoping to have something worth sharing.
@alex_gidirim The launch is already done. Do you have any conclusions?
I am also preparing for the launch. Will have more to say once it is done. In the mean time working on the pre-requisites.
Hopefull will be a successful one.
@aruna_polosofttech Do you have any month/date on your mind? :)
@busmark_w_nika Yes. Planning to launch this month, mid. Would need your support to make it successful:)
@aruna_polosofttech Feel free to message me.
We got some really good backlinks, but the biggest value was definitely the feedback. We had a few signups after the launch, which gave us enough real user feedback to rethink some parts of the product, pivot, and adapt it to what users actually needed.
So for us, the launch was more about validation and learning than just traffic.
@amraniyasser were the signed-up users the paying ones? Or did you convert them later to paying?
@busmark_w_nika We had a very generous free plan!! I think that was a mistake. So we reviewed the different plans, made some changes, and now we’re trying to convert free users into paying customers !!
@amraniyasser Suggest what were pre-requistes you worked on before the launch and what all social media platforms did you use to market your product
bragging rights lmao.
Traffic, signups, mostly being known by the community here
@build_with_aj And you also keep buliding the personal brand so effedt prevails :)
one benefit that doesn't show up in most of these answers: the badge and traffic fade, but the relationships from being in the top 10 that day don't. makers who launch well tend to get asked to hunt other people's products later, and hunting is quietly the biggest compounding lever on this platform, the all-time #1 and #2 hunters have earned more points from hunting other founders' launches than from their own comments and reviews combined. a good launch is a one-time spike, but it's also an audition for becoming someone other founders want vouching for their product.
@galdayan Apart from that, launching will add more kitty points ;)
@busmark_w_nika ha, true, though the interesting part is where the points actually come from. launching adds some, but hunting other people's stuff adds way more over time - it's a slower grind but it compounds because you're not capped at one submission a year like a founder is.
I feel like for b2c products PH can do a lasting impact for b2b I am lost as well. What do you guys think