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Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

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Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

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Post by alexbouchard »

PH takes much more work and strategy but "success" is somewhat deterministic if you did your homework. In our case we saw similar uptake, signups and conversion then ~20h on HN front page over the course of a week. PH had a much higher half-life and we saw stable uptake for a few days while HN was all in the first few hours.

It was definitely worth it for us. Some of our best customers found us on PH and our lead investor first heard of us during our launch and reached out.

For the curious product is https://hookdeck.com

As a PH user thought, I'm not sure how much value you should put in the ranking..

Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

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Post by askcarlos »

Seriously, It will depend on the type of product you are realising. My experience is PH have built an experience that forces sign up; therefore, if you don’t have an account, your can’t upVote; consequently, you will only reach those with an account to your point. I prefer Niche slack/ discord communities where you may know a leader, i.e. for products leaders; I’ve asked a Fiver freelancer to build a list of all slack communities that fit my product. Without spamming, you will find the connectors and making a list of those may be a better route to distribute your product.

Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

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Post by ajimix »

Been in product hunt since it was invite only beta. Things have changed a lot. In the beginning it was a community about hunting great products and nice discoveries.

Nowadays is about paying hunters with a lot of followers to post your products and asking all your network to upvote your product to brag about how you made it to top X of Product Hunt.

The posting about nice products of the internet and discovering them is now gone. If you try to publish something because you found it online and want to share it with the community, but you don’t have a network of people to “fakely” upvote it, the product will be hidden at the bottom and nobody will see it.

Discovery and community are gone.

Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

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Post by sto_hristo »

Yes it is. It helped me discover the "New mac smell" candle. It improved my life and helped me reach perfect nirvana well before the 40-45 hours if its burn time.

This message has been written from across the Universe at the Heavenly plane.

Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

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Post by ianbutler »

I made it to the front page of ProductHunt twice in the last year and was above the fold for the first product. In that case it drove a couple thousand page views and some signups and for the second it drove like 10 signups and a couple hundred views but the long-term effect in both cases was negligible. For what it's worth it's always cool to see something I've built hit that front page but as far outsized effect and the fact that I've since canned both projects it's not going to make a difference in your viability.

Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

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Post by kmckiern »

Who is your ideal user? Do you think this person frequents ProductHunt? That's your answer.

My experience is that the main users of PH are those launching a product.

I'll also add: after my PH launch, I experienced a lot of email spam from "growth hacker" types. I suspect they scrape PH. I tried to take down our post (because the spam was overwhelming), but PH refused.

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