One question I always have around a Product Hunt launch is how do you actually measure whether it was successful?
Teams spend weeks preparing for launch day and coming in the top 5 is obviously one way to look at it but I am curious what other signals people pay attention to. For those who have launched before, what did you look at afterwards to decide whether the launch was actually worth the effort?
We launched a SaaS recently and noticed a cluster of accounts created within minutes of each other that never confirmed email or returned after signup. We want to keep our user table healthy without accidentally deleting real users.
Curious what other founders do in practice, more specifically:
Do you auto-delete accounts after X days without email confirmation? If so, what timeframe worked for you?
Do you keep soft-deleted rows for analytics or GDPR reasons? Any retention windows you recommend?
If you have automated detection, what signals did you use (IP clusters; identical metadata; signup rate spikes)?
In the process of growing, you may have realized some things about yourself that you hadn't noticed before. For example, maybe you're more introverted than you thought or perhaps your sense of humor is a lot darker than you had originally imagined.
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New here, first post. I've been browsing for months without an account.
I've got a decent pile of free tools I use regularly and a couple I pay for. What I can never figure out is the line between "this is fine free" and "okay I'll actually pay." Sometimes the free version does 90% of what I need and I still upgrade for the last 10%. Other times I'll tolerate an annoying limitation for years rather than pay five bucks.
I don't think my logic is consistent at all. Curious how other people decide. Is there a moment where it clicks, or is it just vibes?
Ten years ago, if a Facebook post didn t receive enough reactions, I would delete it immediately.
Yep, 18-year-old Nika was terrified that people would notice her failure. Reality check: when a post flops, almost nobody sees it anyway. The only person who actually suffers from the low engagement is the original poster.
