[AMA] How to make Product of the Day!
Clint Yoo
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Wanted to share my experience in how to lead your product to get Product of the Day. We launched yesterday (Typed) and made it! It's a dream come true but certainly took a lot of preparation and trial/error.
I'm going to write up a blog piece about it but before then if I can help any other makers, feel free to ask me anything in this thread!
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Jakub Piskor@jakub_piskor
Userdome
Would be an honor for me if you could share some of your tips also on my website here: https://www.startupdock.net/prod...
It's a website with the best startup lessons under 250 characters.
Congrats on your successful launch!
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@jakub_piskor Hey Jakub, this is an awesome platform. I'm getting around to writing a longer piece, and when I'm done I'll summarize! Or feel free to quote me in any of these AMAs!
Userdome
@clint_eastyood Awesome, thanks!
Thanks for sharing! Would love to learn more about the roadblocks that you's run into and of course, the successful stories as well!
Re:catch
@jaidayang I'll post on typed.do/blog soon!
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On launch day or leading up to the launch, how many potential supporters did you inform about the launch?
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@clint_eastyood Seeing you only have 38 followers, how many existing PH members did you contact to ask for support, and how?
Hueman Pixel
Hey, @clint_eastyood Typed is a great tool. Shared some feedback on your website too on Brian's page.
Looking forward to the blog! :)
Keen on learning about your pre-launch activities such as building momentum online and launch day as well. Did you launch on multiple platforms or just here on PH?
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@derrick_abincha We did it on purpose, because Product Hunt launch should be focused on engaging with the Product Hunt hunters and makers!
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@derrick_abincha Hey Derrick, we just launched here. I'll have to hurry up in writing the blog!
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@derrick_abincha Ultimate tip: it matters who votes, rather than how many votes !
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@derrick_abincha This is of course my assumption, but!
Very interested to know!
BeforeSunset AI
Thank you so much! How did you reach people to announce your product? Which channel was the best?
BeforeSunset AI
@clint_eastyood Hey Clint! Thank you so much for sharing. It is a great advice :) We will launch our product at the end of next month, and I believe your advice helps us.
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@pinar_engur Hey Pinar! We basically informed our initial users and people we knew who were already active within the Product Hunt community. Of course, that wasn't enough. So the moment we launched, we started following and reaching out to all people with minimum 50 followers on Product Hunt via Twitter
Hi Clint. Thanks for taking time to do this AMA.
My questions is:
What do you consider the most important step in the preparation before launch?
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@frankie_zhang Frankie i'm going to copy my answer above as I believe this is the ultimate discipline to follow:
My biggest tip would be to connect with members of the community before or during your launch. At the end of the day, PH is a community, not a voting platform. It's not the number of votes that matter, but rather how engaged actual members of the PH community are with the product!
What trial&error did you come through to get the Product of the Day ?
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@suyeon_lee1 We initially launched as beta last year and was taken down... haha
Congrats on your successful launch and thanks for sharing.
I just launch a small macOS utility today. Maybe it's the wrong publish timing(not the first hour) and there is no visitor. Hope you can share any idea about the what we need to do on the launch day.
Also, if you are interested, and we’d like to hear your thoughts! 🤩
https://www.producthunt.com/post...
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@xinyi_l Thank you Xinyi! My biggest tip would be to connect with members of the community before or during your launch. At the end of the day, PH is a community, not a voting platform. It's not the number of votes that matter, but rather how engaged actual members of the PH community are with the product!
@clint_eastyood Thank you. It's so late to know that connect with members of the community is so important. haha. Hope I can have a good launch next time. And congratulations on the successful launch for you again.
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@clint_eastyood Sure. I tried Typed and I love the team task features. It's great.