Write a follow up blog post
like a medium post detailing how we got on to Product Hunt?
which will be read by people hoping to get their product on PH... meaning they're even less likely to use your product.
Focus on your product.
Ask HN: Our launch is trending on Product Hunt – now what?
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Re: Ask HN: Our launch is trending on Product Hunt – now what?
#12Nothing you'll do now matters for the future of your product, not even your appearance on product hunt (which barely is read by your target audience anyway), so just continue with what you were doing before.
Take me for example. I downloaded your framework and will never look at it again.
Re: Ask HN: Our launch is trending on Product Hunt – now what?
#13Continue working on your product.
am coding as we speak...and I'm serious.
We're realising source code to one our apps as part of the marketing drive this one >
Re: Ask HN: Our launch is trending on Product Hunt – now what?
#14congrats. But traffic from product hunt (et al) and news articles, etc is always temporary. So here in a bit it's going to die down, no matter what you do. You may or may NOT get users from it, and there's nothing you can do about that--a lot of times on these types of sites, people are just curious and move on to the next thing tomorrow. Just remember that, and don't let it discourage you. Keep doing what you're doi…
Hi rgbrenner. Co-founder of Redbeard here. I really appreciate and definitely agree with this comment. I have a great post saved from a few years ago by Alex of GrooveHQ which also mentions the same sentiment: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/96361/Getting-Crunched-...
Re: Ask HN: Our launch is trending on Product Hunt – now what?
#15Capture as many email addresses as you can and start a list so that you can continue to reach out to those that showed initial interest as you build the business.
Currently we show a popup for newsletter signup and to download the Redbeard framework you need to provide your name/email. Which we collect.
The download link is emailed out. Myself and co-founder debated the merits of this . He is of the mind, getting emails is important. I think getting people using the framework and lowering barriers to in order to do that is far more pressing. What would you suggest?
Re: Ask HN: Our launch is trending on Product Hunt – now what?
#16hehe... keep shipping !!!
Re: Ask HN: Our launch is trending on Product Hunt – now what?
#17Nothing you'll do now matters for the future of your product, not even your appearance on product hunt (which barely is read by your target audience anyway), so just continue with what you were doing before.
Take me for example. I downloaded your framework and will never look at it again.
lol....how can I possibly convince you to use it :)
In all seriousness thanks for the comments. They're giving the sense that Product Hunt won't make us overnight millionaires and we've got a hard task ahead of us
Re: Ask HN: Our launch is trending on Product Hunt – now what?
#18Since you are getting plenty of traffic - will getting more feedback help ? If so, can you make giving feedback easily accessible at home page ? So what should be a good question be ? eg:question we are better than say a competitor (fill the name?) because ?
If gaining more users is what you want - will adding a forkme at github help ?
If gaining more traction : add social buttons to spread the word about page ?
Re: Ask HN: Our launch is trending on Product Hunt – now what?
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Take me for example. I downloaded your framework and will never look at it again.
lol....how can I possibly convince you to use it :) In all seriousness thanks for the comments. They're giving the sense that Product Hunt won't make us overnight millionaires and we've got a hard task ahead of us
Try content marketing? Blog some focused pieces on native mobile dev in general and what sucks, then show how your product makes everyone's lives better and saves the day.
Set a schedule and post, that's the way people will see your name from time to time, and after seeing it for 10 or 20 or 50 times, might want to try. Get on their radar.
See Auth0's blog [1], even though they sell one-click auth, they have a lot of neat content on front-end frameworks and so on.
Re: Ask HN: Our launch is trending on Product Hunt – now what?
#20I saw this couple of days ago and was wondering how flexible this framework is? Will you be providing source code?