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Alec Nguyen

We doubled our user sign ups thanks to Product Hunt!!

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We launched Afforai yesterday and ranked #4. It was a fantastic launch that helped us go from 480 users to over 900 users. And it's still growing!! Product Hunt, you guys are awesome! PS: this is our launch page if you consider supporting us. Thank you. https://www.producthunt.com/post...

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Chris Hall
That's fantastic news, congratulations! Could you please share some insights on how exactly Product Hunt helped you achieve this impressive growth, and what strategies you adopted to effectively engage the Product Hunt community?
Alec Nguyen
@chrishalliday35 Absolutely happy to share Chris!! So, funny enough, we had an accidental launch last week because I accidentally clicking launch now. Had to contact PH to undo the launch. Since then, I set the launch date to be one week after. Throughout that one week, my and my team (5 more members) did the following: - make sure our website is optimized as much as we can - build up hype on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn by posting that we are launching in 5, 3, 1 days. - engage with the Product Hunt community by replying to and create discussions - we did it religiously, non-stop for 7 days to build up an audience to follow the launch - this is key though, keep it genuine. Engage authentically with people. On the day of launch, we made sure to reply to every single comment or review. Don't know if that helps with the ranking or not but I hope so. We had the highest upvote-to-comment ratio out of all the launches of the day. That's pretty much it, we didn't use a hunter and in hindsight, maybe that would've helped?? who knows. Here's the dark side though, you will get exhausted replying to people for 24h straight. My team and I barely slept during launch day to make sure we can engage and reply to everyone. So, do this strategy at your own precaution.
Drew "Sales Playbook Builder" Williams
@chrishalliday35 @alec_afforai This is hilarious... the fact that you accidentally launched. I feel like it's so 'founder' of you. We just have a million things going on and bound to make mistakes like that. Good to hear the PH team got you sorted. And thanks for the insights, I'll be launching in August some time.
Alec Nguyen
@chrishalliday35 @drewsalesplaybookbuilder Yea, the struggle is real. But hey, it keeps you going. Good luck on the launch Drew.
Arbaaz
@chrishalliday35 @alec_afforai this was so helpful! Sending you positivity and lots of awesome vibes Alec
Alec Nguyen
@chrishalliday35 @arbaazio Glad to hear that Arbaaz!! and thank you. Good luck with your launch. Just followed.
Nick from FirstHR
Great result Alec, my congrats!
Oleg from FirstHR
WOW! This really cool, congrats!
Iren from FirstHR
Huge result, Alec! My congrats.
carlos afonso
Nice.
Alex Petruchio
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Dmitriy Pegov
My best congrats!
Namrata Arya
That’s great! We launched Linklab today and could really use your feedback πŸ™
Vova Makstakov
Perfect result of the launch. πŸš€
Congrats, Alec! And what about the traffic? Just curious.
Sai K
Amazing Job . Congratulations.
Bunyamin Duduk
Congratulations! Good to hear :)
Priyanshu Raj
wow congrats
Vasiliy Berenkov
Excellent result, Alec. Hopefully they will be transfered in paid users.
That's great Alec! Congratulations! πŸ₯³
Divine Rivers
Congrats, giving all us future launchers inspiration and hope
Kim HM
Congratulations! Although it started with a little mishap, the outcome turned out to be fantastic. πŸš€πŸŽ‰
Ni𝕏i
That is great to hear, #4 place is fantastic news! Congratulations, gave you guys an upvote πŸš€
Marilena Nikou
wow congrats!
Dennis Ashford
Congratulations!