I finally made it to #1 on Product Hunt

Manoj Ahirwar
51 replies
I finally made it to #1 on Product Hunt My name is Manoj, I have been building products for a long time now. I developed my first product back in 2015 but at that time I did not know about Product Hunt. I launched Product Hunt in 2017 for the first time, Back in 2017. my friends and I created a social networking app for like-minded people and launched Product Hunt. We got a total of 18 upvotes. Till now I have launched a total of 13 products on ProductHunt and have been active on ProductHunt for the last year. Also this year January I started building in public. Now I try to share all my failures, positive and negative things. Recently I created BoilerCode.co, A catalog of SaaS boilerplates to help fellow builders ship their products faster than ever and scheduled my launch for 25th Sep (Monday). I created a coming soon page and got around 30+ people interested by subscribing to my launch. But due to some personal reasons, I decided to postpone my launch to 24th Sep (Sunday). I thank ProductHunt support for this because they agreed to my request for pre-poning my launch. When I launched, I started sharing on Twitter, and then on every 50 upvotes I started posting the launch progress on ProductHunt. I am not sure if this made a difference. but many people supported me on Twitter and I can not thank them enough. I kept sharing the competition stats, and it was a crazy battle among the top 3 products that day. BoilerCode was number 1 in the first 3 hours and then moved to number 2. For the next 8 hours, It was on number 2. At late night, I called it a day and went to sleep hoping for the best and Twitter did it again. When I woke up it was still on number 2 but was very very close to number 1, and I started to share this crazy competition again on Twitter. and people started supporting me again. and quickly BoilerCode became number 1. Then for the rest of the time, BoilerCode kept its position as number 1. This is the first time that my launch has become number 1 on Product Hunt. For the last 2 days following are the stats I saw for BoilerCode Total Website Views - 4K views Max concurrent real-time users on the website - 70 users Traffic Source - ProductHunt and Twitter Total Revenue - $1300 This is the first time that any of my products saw this much traction. Now my next goal is to keep pushing BoilerCode and add new things to make the developer's life easy.

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Prasad Pilla
Thanks for sharing all the details @manoj_ahirwar. Helpful to understand the steps that potentially lead to success. I've been thinking whether to launch https://chatcare.co on a weekday or a weekend. Being an Indie Founder, I can't compete with big cos on peak days to get to #1 or under #5. I am not particularly interested in the position per se but I just want the raw traffic. If the raw traffic on Mon is still higher despite not ranking under #1, I am still happy. Now I have your numbers for a weekend launch with good rank, need to compare it with another weekday launch without a good rank.
Raveesh Motlani
@manoj_ahirwar @prasad_pilla PH would get higher traffic on Tue, Wed and Thu - and so competition to rank is also tougher. If you dont care about the rank but only traffic - prefer these days. Reference: https://www.unusual.vc/post/how-...
Daan Stolk
Thanks for sharing your stats. Cool to see your perseverance pay off, congrats on the successful launch! We're launching today!
Gaurav Sharma
@manoj_ahirwar the story made me smile, thanks for sharing, and all the best for the future. I am wondering if you also did some pre-launch promotion and if yes then what all did you do? And any tips of increasing reach here on PH, I am new to it and hoping to launch soon! If you have some time then also give feedback on our product please :)
Relja Denic
The stats are awesome and congrats!
Jake Harrison
Congrats, I supported and retweeted your launch tweet!
Sergei Petrov
Congrats! Good stats and progress.
Yavuz Tunc Emran
Congrats!! Btw, your stats are quite beneficial, especially for those planning to launch soon.
Shivangi Awasthi
I can feel what you are feeling. This is awesome! I launched my first product yesterday and it is #1 now. Can't be more grateful to everyone who made their contribution. :)
Jane Nguyen
Thank you for your sharing. I will take it for my launching
Aswin Kumar
Congrats Manoj, that's a great yield for all the hard work you put in.
Mariia Volina
Thank you for sharing!
Alex Rodukov
Thanks for sharing! 🔥
Prema Toppo
@manoj_ahirwar congratulations on achieving the #1 spot on Product Hunt with BoilerCode.co!
Roee Naim
Thanks for sharing!
Iya Mendoza
Huge congrats, Manoj, on reaching the #1 spot on Product Hunt with BoilerCode.co! Your journey is truly inspiring. There are some valuable takeaways for Logomakerr.ai that I am excited to work on - Consistency pays off. - Building transparency and engaging on social media is critical. - Metrics and goals help in measuring success. Thanks for sharing your journey, and I wish you all the best with BoilerCode.co. Hopefully, these insights can benefit my company, Logomakerr.ai, an AI-powered logo design platform that helps startups and small businesses create memorable branding packages for their audience.
Kajal d4
Congrats and Thanks for Sharing!
Toni
Thanks for sharing and congrats on your achievement #1. Did you do anything else besides sharing on Twitter, to promote your launch for BoilerCode? Or did you really just focus your efforts on your Twitter community ?
Adebayo Mustafa
This is really impressive. Good luck with the next goal
Olaf
congrats! thanks for sharing! came the twitter traffic from your personal network or from PH groups?