Mobile App Launch Checklist
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Mobile App Launch Checklist
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#2"How can you get featured on Product Hunt? "
Honest question, I've never followed or cared about PH. It's that big of a deal to be featured there?
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#3Looks detailed. But if you are someone doing an App all by yourself it looks scary. At the end of the day, a lot depends on if you have built something that the users cannot refuse I guess.
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#4"How can you get featured on Product Hunt? " Honest question, I've never followed or cared about PH. It's that big of a deal to be featured there?
Some Medium thought pieces claim so, but other Medium thought pieces claim from a traffic perspective, it is an order of magnitude below Hacker News.
It is a more productive use of product development to improve the product then figure out how to game Product Hunt since you will not be able to compete with people who buy sponsored Twitter ads for their PH page. (Yes, this happens!)
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#5"How can you get featured on Product Hunt? " Honest question, I've never followed or cared about PH. It's that big of a deal to be featured there?
I had an app featured on Product Hunt and it led to about 100 downloads or so. I don't follow it actively and I think it is slowly fading as time goes on. You can only download so many apps each day before you tap out
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#6"How can you get featured on Product Hunt? " Honest question, I've never followed or cared about PH. It's that big of a deal to be featured there?
I'm not sure if someone has mentioned this but not everyone on product hunt is created equal.
More than 80% of the stuff you see on product hunt (on it's home page) is directly placed there by influencers (that have bypassed upvotes and comments to get there).
So if you are a creator and submit your product to product hunt, you are severely disadvantaged - it's much better if either (form best to worst case):
1. You know an influencer and he/she submits it to the featured list.
2. An influencer organically submits it to the featured list.
3. An submitter (who's not related to you) submits it.
4. You submit it (either by emailing them about it, or by submitting it yourself).
I'm actually working on a side project that would make Product Hunt a lot more transparent (who are core influencers, which product types succeed, etc.)
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#7"How can you get featured on Product Hunt? " Honest question, I've never followed or cared about PH. It's that big of a deal to be featured there?
Some Medium thought pieces claim so, but other Medium thought pieces claim from a traffic perspective, it is an order of magnitude below Hacker News. It is a more productive use of product development to improve the product then figure out how to game Product Hunt since you will not be able to compete with people who buy sponsored Twitter ads for their PH page. (Yes, this happens!)
From what I understand about the PH algorithm, votes for a product that directly come from the link are not valued as much as votes that are organic (either from the homepage, if you search for the product, find it in a collection etc.)
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some Medium thought pieces claim so, but other Medium thought pieces claim from a traffic perspective, it is an order of magnitude below Hacker News. It is a more productive use of product development to improve the product then figure out how to game Product Hunt since you will not be able to compete with people who buy sponsored Twitter ads for their PH page. (Yes, this happens!)
From what I understand about the PH algorithm, votes for a product that directly come from the link are not valued as much as votes that are organic (either from the homepage, if you search for the product, find it in a collection etc.)
Of course, there is a "workaround" where people post on public forums "my product was featured on the Front Page of Product Hunt!" with a link to the front page, and the implication is clear. Whenever I call them out as attempting to beat the algorithm, it usually starts a flame war. ("It's hustle!" / "Everyone is doing it!")
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#9>Use the Lastest iOS/Android Features
>Apple and Google want to show off the latest features in iOS and Android, so incorporating these into your app will make sure you have the best chance of getting featured.
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I think it's not fair not included Windows here. Windows 10 also have excellent features.
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#10>Use the Lastest iOS/Android Features >Apple and Google want to show off the latest features in iOS and Android, so incorporating these into your app will make sure you have the best chance of getting featured. . I think it's not fair not included Windows here. Windows 10 also have excellent features. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows
It's a Mobile App Launch Checklist. He didn't included Linux or macOS either.
I know Microsoft was trying to get into phones, but their UWP platform is about as major a mobile OS as Tizen and WebOS.