My cofounder and I have been wanting to launch on Product Hunt for ages. When we suddenly needed to launch a feature within 10 days, we worked around the clock to get it done.
Given that it was our first ever launch, the short turnaround time and amount of work that our team of 2 had to do, our expectations for the launch were low (top 10 leaderboard, a few sign ups and UX feedback points to work on).
The results were INSANE. We got to top 3 (#3 product of the day), had over 200 comments, and amazing feature improvement suggestions which will MASSIVELY influence the next iterations of the feature.
How did we manage? We spent the full day of launch intensively reaching out to members of the PH community, that we've spoken to before and that we hadn't. Specifically, we didn't ask directly for support. We asked them to take a look at a our launch, and support if they wanted to/liked the product. Most of the people we reached out to were keen to support and had some really insightful comments!
We're so grateful to the product hunt community for having supported us in this way <3 it's such a strong community of helpful and forward thinking individuals, and our first launch hugely exceeded our expectations. Thank you so much for the support <3
You can see our launch page and some of the insightful comments left by awesome product hunters here:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/choppity
Scrapeless