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Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product

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Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product

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Post by dang »

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That's true, but it didn't receive any significant attention. When an item hasn't had significant attention in about the last year or so, a small number of reposts is fine. We want good stories to have more than one crack at the bat.

We're also working on some new ideas for making a much bigger dent in this problem. Story quality is a priority.

Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product

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Post by nothxbro »

Worth noting is that this was essentially number one on product hunt, above all other items.

Meaning, the product hunt results shown are the absolute best result you could hope for and most users will receive a far smaller amount of visits. PH gets a bit of hype because its invite only and people assume it has a big impact, but for most folk it would be much more impactful for their launch to even be on a smaller tech blog like Read/write or recode.

For the average person who gets on PH and gets the normal amount of upvotes (around 10-20 ) you can expect a blistering 250-500 visits. You would get more traction just posting a comment in a HN article. PH seems more powerful because its invite only and has tons of hype around it, but it does not deliver on results yet.

Surprised that HN numbers were so high, but not surprised that Techcrunch was number one. They still have a great share of the market when it comes to initial exposure.

Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product

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Post by minimaxir »

dang wrote: post #5
[deleted] wrote: post #2

[deleted]

That's true, but it didn't receive any significant attention. When an item hasn't had significant attention in about the last year or so, a small number of reposts is fine. We want good stories to have more than one crack at the bat. We're also working on some new ideas for making a much bigger dent in this problem. Story quality is a priority.

Gotcha. (deleted OP since URL was appropriately changed)

Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product

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Post by minimaxir »

nothxbro wrote: post #6

Worth noting is that this was essentially number one on product hunt, above all other items. Meaning, the product hunt results shown are the absolute best result you could hope for and most users will receive a far smaller amount of visits. PH gets a bit of hype because its invite only and people assume it has a big impact, but for most folk it would be much more impactful for their launch to even be on a smaller tec…

A good rule of thumb with Hacker News is that you get 90-100 unique visitors for every upvote on a post given that it hits the front page. (as someone whose blog has hit the top of HN multiple times, I can attest to this)

The app received 6100 hits with 76 HN points, so that's a good estimate.

I'm not a fan of Product Hunt because it's an echo chamber personified. It's what happened to Quora, and I don't think that strategy will work twice.

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