Analysing 100,000 product launches
Matt Harbord
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I've pulled data on 100,000 product launches from the PH API and I'm now starting to analyse it.
I'm hoping to answer questions like what difference does having a video make; how easy/hard is it to get featured on different days; how many votes are usually required to get top 5; stuff like that.
So, what do you want to know?
If you have any burning questions I can answer from the data I'll do the digging and let you know!
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Dipak Sisodiya@dipak_sisodiya
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Is the data available on the quality of upvotes? Since the number of upvotes vary a lot more between different days, what would you say would be a better metric to judge a successful launch?
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@dipak_sisodiya no, only the raw number - but interestingly the numbers don't vary much on different days for the middle of the pack - they do for number 1 spot (which is what we all focus on!)
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@matt_harbord What is the highest number of upvotes anyone has every gotten? What day was it?
@dipak_sisodiya https://www.producthunt.com/prod... - one thing we can't separate from the API is when votes were made; so I imagine a lot of the top performers have promoted their launch after the fact and continued to collect upvotes.
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So we can't see how votes are distributed throughout the day - only the total; so it's not possible to look for things like gaining momentum after a certain time.
But I looked at launch hour - and not being up early hits your chances of being number 1 pretty hard (though this may just be a case of the best products having their act together enough to schedule it properly and not rush it out late).
So we can't see how votes are distributed throughout the day - only the total; so it's not possible to look for things like gaining momentum after a certain time.
But I looked at launch hour - and not being up early hits your chances of being number 1 pretty hard (though this may just be a case of the best products having their act together enough to schedule it properly and not rush it out late).