MVP or Fully Fledged PH Launch?

I've wondered this too. Many products seem fairly well-baked, but I'm considering launching an MVP on PH and have the same question. For me, it's planned as a "gift" to the community of leaders. While the product is pretty good, we think the community here could use it (for free) and give us valuable feedback. I'm not sure PH works well for that though. I *don't* see a lot of hate trolls on here, but I still don't want it to flop. So I'm hoping if I present it in the spirit I explained above, we can find our fans. ???

Product hunt allows you to relaunch after 6 months if you have a major feature update, so I think it makes sense to try both from the maker side. From my experience, it is hard to get to the top 10 with an MVP, but top20 is doable.

We're launching somewhere in the middle. Not quite a fully-fledged launch but a little further along than our MVP. We're launching next week so you'll have to tap in to see how it goes!

I'd say fully fledged. You want to give the community your best product version. I think it would be a mistake to launch an MVP product here. Yeah, it will probably be cool too but it could cost you some people too. Worth working on a fully fledged PH launch. Btw, we’re launching in late May. Check out our upcoming PH page: www.producthunt.com/upcoming/eff... Our project is called: Effecto. It’s an app for detailed habits, health, symptoms, and meds tracking. Pretty much for everything that is related to your physical or mental health and every daily factor that can affect you.

I believe releasing the MVP first allows for people to grow with the product and gives more room for improvements while also getting participation. At least that is what I hope will happen as we launch later in the day.

I'm a believer in launching early and often; the PH community spirit is strong on feedback -- why not get real thoughts when you need them?

I too have been going back and forth on this. The app we're working has 3 main features which get rolled out over time with the previous laying the ground work and hyping the latter. The first main feature is the foundation and core of the app- it's available right now but limited on where it can be used. When we implement the method of using it through the web app is when we'll start preparing for our launch. Then follow up 6 months later when we've finished it as a whole.

Minimum VALUABLE Product. Accomplish the value proposition and nothing more, gotta validate before you go deep into dev

We launched the mvp of our app to a small group of close friends last September, who we knew would try it out sincerely and give real, honest feedback. We haven't launched on PH yet (this June hopefull!) after honing that feedback to build something really special. I wouldn't call it a "fully fledged" launch with a big budget or anything, but we definitely want it to give a good first impression before marketing to a wide group of people we don't personally know. As @fabian_maume said, you can only relaunch every 6 months, and in B2C land, we expect it'll take _at least_ that long for someone to consider trying our product again if their first experience is less than spectacular. TL;DR launch with friends / people we know first. For PH, we've given it more time :)

MVP..!! I have an MVP and the main hold back i have is it is not optimized for mobile yet and mobile is important today. This is my first day (hour) on PH, where is the best place to learn what a 'PH launch' entails...?