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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
#12Worth 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…
Based on my relatively small sample size (a couple of times on HN frontpage and TC), a feature about a utility like this that sits on the Lifehacker homepage for any significant amount of time will demolish the sources mentioned here in terms of actual resulting usage.
Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
#13Really cool to see how far Product Hunt has come, rivaling TC on visit traffic and HN on signups /leads
Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
#14Worth 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…
Based on my relatively small sample size (a couple of times on HN frontpage and TC), a feature about a utility like this that sits on the Lifehacker homepage for any significant amount of time will demolish the sources mentioned here in terms of actual resulting usage.
I'd love to compare. Any tips?
Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on my relatively small sample size (a couple of times on HN frontpage and TC), a feature about a utility like this that sits on the Lifehacker homepage for any significant amount of time will demolish the sources mentioned here in terms of actual resulting usage.
I'd love to compare. Any tips?
I think Lifehacker editors read a variety of blogs, so if you appear in one of those, you probably have a better chance of getting noticed. It's been a while, but probably smaller blogs that are focused on new companies - KillerStartups, MakeUseOf, ProgrammableWeb, that sort of thing. You can also try emailing them (tips@lifehacker), but I imagine that they don't read all of those.
Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd love to compare. Any tips?
I think Lifehacker editors read a variety of blogs, so if you appear in one of those, you probably have a better chance of getting noticed. It's been a while, but probably smaller blogs that are focused on new companies - KillerStartups, MakeUseOf, ProgrammableWeb, that sort of thing. You can also try emailing them (tips@lifehacker), but I imagine that they don't read all of those.
I'll try. Thanks
Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
#17Worth 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 s…
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.
Here here. I think Product Hunt is interesting to look at once in a while to see what others think is hot, but I hate the closed nature of it. There's no obvious way to get selected to make submissions or comments.
In fact, when I read Carlos Bueno's post on QZ, the first thing I thought of was Product Hunt--an echo chamber of like-minded folks with their own exclusive club on who gets to submit which startup; and not only just submit, but even comment! It's a fantastic article worth reading:
The next thing Silicon Valley needs to disrupt big time: its own culture
http://qz.com/225782/the-next-thing-silicon-valley-needs-to-...
Someone's created a "product hunt-like" subreddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/producthunt) that I think is actually a better idea: Anyone can up-vote a submission, anyone can comment, and moderators can separate the wheat from the chaff. Too bad it's not more popular.
EDIT: Fixed typo
Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 s…
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. Here here. I think Product Hunt is interesting to look at once in a while to see what others think is hot, but I hate the closed nature of it. There's no obvious way to get selected to make submissions or comments. In fact, when I read Carlos Bueno's post on QZ, the fir…
The way to get selected to submit or comment appears to be ryans buddy or that buddies buddy. Its a really misogynistic way to do it and minoritys and women seem to be under represented.
I am sure if he chimed in here, he would say something along the lines of "We are super excited to open it up to everyone but want to do things correctly and not hurt the quality! With that in mind we are only letting a few people in at a time!"
Which of course means a huge amount of straight white dudes on the site and no transparency about what is submitted or chosen to be on the site.
Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
#19Worth 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 s…
I mod /r/SideProject, which is a subreddit similar to Product Hunt. Do you have any recommendations on how to prevent the subreddit from turning into an echo chamber?
Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
#20It seems Product Hunt is closed to most submitters... how did you post there? Did you score an invite?
See @nothxbro's comment, above