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Discover the stories behind successful Product Hunt launches

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Discover the stories behind successful Product Hunt launches

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Startup TV

Maker

This was a weekend project. I've been collecting these stories and posting them to Medium. I decided to put them on their own domain so they are easily searchable/sortable. You can learn a lot about preparing to be featured on Product Hunt. Some of the makers have been kind enough to give very detailed reports of their traffic/sales/funding as a result of being "hunted". There are some really awesome and enlightening stories there. Let me know if they are other things you would like to see added in the future. I'm considering doing a mashup of AngelList, Crunchbase so we can see funding data. I'm also considering different ways to sort the stories (team size, bootstrapped, funded, whether the company was launched on PH or not). Give me more to do so that I can continue to feed my Product Hunt addiction.

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11yr ago

WeKiki

@erictwillis really great thinking! I'll have to link to this site in the 2nd edition! :P

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11yr ago

Startup TV

Maker

@kikischirr I need to add your book somewhere there as well.

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11yr ago

@kikischirr @erictwillis we've got a virtuous cycle going on here where you 2 and PH all win :)

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11yr ago

@ericwillis Good job knocking this up in a weekend Eric and thanks for featuring us on there. A couple of small points of feedback: 1. I'd look at integrating gravatar for the user profile images which would make users feel more at home after signing up. 2. The default order is currently chronological, I think for most people their first interest will be the most popular articles over a certain period of time. I think FounderNotes.com are one of the best implementations for me, where it shows the most popular articles that day, that week, that month & all time. Obviously MakerSuccess will be updated less regularly at least for now, but maybe weekly, monthly, yearly & all time could work. Just my thoughts on a couple of tweaks, but a great start overall.

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11yr ago

Startup TV

Maker

@fredrivett Good feedback. Will add those to the list.

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11yr ago

DaphnaBI

@ericwillis Awesome site, I love reading the stories and even before I was really as active on the site read many of the articles. Great to have them collected in one place and that people will be expanding on them.

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11yr ago

World Cup Next

Maker

I tried to register (Chrome, Mac) and I keep getting the error message: At least 5 characters Maybe that message is there all the time, but either way I can't register :(

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11yr ago

Startup TV

Maker

@mubashariqbal I'll take a look and get this bug fixed. Thanks.

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11yr ago

Eric, thanks for putting the site together. Excellent resource for Makers. I've advised startups on how to launch on PH. The missing link still is to succeed in getting hunts published. I've added your site to a PH Launch collection https://www.producthunt.com/pedr...

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11yr ago

I'm a little late to the party on this one, but agree with everyone, it's a very useful resource! (and quite fun to read) I agree with @pedrogastal , moving beyond the curtain of 'upcoming' and on to center stage is really what matters. It seems that it's not so much the number of votes, rather who votes. (early PH users, notable or semi notable tech folks, etc...)

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11yr ago

Freelance Pro

A Product Hunt for Product Hunt stories. How delightfully meta. Nice work!

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11yr ago

Startup TV

Maker

@_jamesmundy Thanks.

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11yr ago

WeKiki

@_jamesmundy I like the term "delightfully meta!"

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11yr ago

Design Systems Repo

The site isn't loading for me :(

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11yr ago

Startup TV

Maker

@jadlimcaco @playerize Working on the error now :(

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11yr ago

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