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Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

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Post by antupis »

steelstraw wrote: post #26
ajimix wrote: post #13

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 there anything they could do to fix this?

Start new community around new products.

Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

#42

Post by hemmert »

On its launch day, I posted my side project to ProductHunt:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/escape-team

It got #2 Product of the Day, 563 upvotes (its 'GIF trailer' helped a lot, I think!) in total.

It was a great launch, despite the community of PH not being too board game-savvy. It's a good activity for your launch day – I would, however, not link to the PH page directly, but rather make a page on your website that embeds their upvote button:

https://www.escape-team.com/out-now-mission-pack-2

(I did that for the first expansion of Escape Team, which got way less upvotes and traction as you can see, but that might just be the smaller news value of an 'expansion'.)

Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

#43

Post by hemmert »

hemmert wrote: post #42

On its launch day, I posted my side project to ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/escape-team It got #2 Product of the Day, 563 upvotes (its 'GIF trailer' helped a lot, I think!) in total. It was a great launch, despite the community of PH not being too board game-savvy. It's a good activity for your launch day – I would, however, not link to the PH page directly, but rather make a page on your website th…

(Not a single (!) journalist contacted me after Escape Team was #2 Product of the Day. I would have hoped / guessed that do happen, but it didn't.)

Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

#44

Post by petilon »

brianwawok wrote: post #36
petilon wrote: post #18

Posting on ProductHunt, if you're a small company, can be harmful. Program Managers of big companies prowl this site, looking for interesting ideas to copy.

If the only value of your business is an idea to add on to another business that is trivial to copy, rather you get shut down sooner than later.

Timing matters. A big company can snuff out a small competitor if they respond quickly, before the small competitor gets a chance to take root. Once it takes root it is harder to snuff out. So it makes sense to stay out of sight of big competitors until you have had a chance to establish.

Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

#45

Post by anyfactor »

ajimix wrote: post #13

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…

I used to be active in various startup subreddits. 2 years ago, I will get 2-3 requests per month to upvote their product. Those requests even though against producthunt's TOS seemed decent and was backed by real people.

Last year I was geting 1-3 spams per week on reddit. They were literally zero karma same day accounts. And those products were hitting top 5 of the day and staying there. Generic newsletter services and repurposed ideas with an SAAS branding.

Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

#46

Post by anyfactor »

steelstraw wrote: post #26
ajimix wrote: post #13

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 there anything they could do to fix this?

Worked in a social media startup , want to build one too. My opinion -

- High level human moderation.

- Country based communities

- Actually creating services around the community to justify a subscription to participate model. You can't build any community where people without stake in it, gets to control it.

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But this comes with the obvious problem of, this won't never work. People won't simply signup because there is so much loops to jump through to say something freely.

Re: Ask HN: Is ProductHunt Worth It?

#48

Post by Julesman »

For an industry centered on innovation it is possible to be in a dry period where there are just too many people trying to make the 'latest thing' using older things. New tech tends to show up and keep things interesting.
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