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How was your first launch on Product Hunt? 😸
Do you remember how it was when you were a Product Hunt newbie? What was the mistakes that you did on your first launch? Let’s meet in the comments to share our advices for the people who are going to launch their products for the first time! 🚀
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@baris_bingol @aleynacatak From chaos emerges order. Better be aware of best practices, launch tips from people who have done it earlier would need to be used to our advantage while launching afresh.
@baris_bingol YEAH MAN LIKE CHECK OUT PEOPLES LINKEDIN PROFILES TO CHECK IF THEY KNOW EACH OTHER
@baris_bingol can you give me some advice based on your experience? :D
@steve_takhirov Could you expand on this? :) The caps makes me feel like this is super important to know!
First time we launched it was for a free feature for our app. We gathered all of our friends to the launch, received 474 votes and placed 17th.. So, PH is not about vote numbers but it’s community 😁
@helvacilar I think this is a very good learning as well. Friends and family are good to support but doesn't help much in the rank list of Product Hunt. Here the community and its vibrant way of providing feedback matters a lot. This better be kept in mind for all future launches :)
@helvacilar Haha Arda really funny right. So you're talking about the launch of the same product as Aleyna right? Since you're both at Sertifier. Dude if you are gonna act like you don't know each other at least remove your job titles from Linkedin.
We were originally hunted way back in the day before we even knew PH, so that was the first issue. We had a great new feature, so we decided to launch it.
Mistake: Not building any community
Mistake: Not being able to have the products in place to engage with our current customer base to generate interest
Mistake: Getting too caught up in things like the day of the week and debating a tagline that we forgot to build stronger media and outreach
Mistake: Not being able to offer a promo
Mistake: Reading too many "helpful" blogs. This was back in 2016, so I'm glad to see PH has a blog to help now too.
Basically, we had a great idea that seemed researched but lacked the technology, tools and time to execute it successfully.
@lucky__angi Thank you for sharing your experience, Angi! We learn from our first experiences a lot. We did the exact same things on our first launch, which we didn't succeed :D Gaining experience from these "mistakes" helped a lot during our next launches.
@aleynacatak Exactly! We learn from our mistakes, and make the most of out of the next one! You live; you learn. We're hoping to launch next month or so, and I can't wait to see how the results change with the right tools in place.
@shahdeepa Learning from your mistakes is significant, but learning from other people's mistakes hits different! I wish you luck with your upcoming launch ^.^
Thank you for all your tips, everyone. I will also soon launch my first MVP on PH (www.imaginario.ai). I need to learn the ropes!
At DeltaHub we're just about to launch our ergonomic wrist rest called Carpio: https://www.producthunt.com/upco... so we're going to see how things turn out. In case you find our product interesting, you can follow our CEO @forst and vote for Carpio on the 27th. Would mean a lot :)
Let's see...we launched it today and I'd say it's going quite allright 😊 If you find our product interesting and you wanna show some extra support, just find us in the top products list. Our product is called Carpio 2.0 😄
@leanzubrezki I wish you luck with your first launch! You'll learn a lot about what to do during your next launches, believe me ^.^
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