We doubled our user sign ups thanks to Product Hunt!!
Alec Nguyen
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We launched Afforai yesterday and ranked #4. It was a fantastic launch that helped us go from 480 users to over 900 users. And it's still growing!!
Product Hunt, you guys are awesome!
PS: this is our launch page if you consider supporting us. Thank you.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/afforai
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Sai K@sai_k9
Amazing Job . Congratulations.
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That's fantastic news, congratulations! Could you please share some insights on how exactly Product Hunt helped you achieve this impressive growth, and what strategies you adopted to effectively engage the Product Hunt community?
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@chrishalliday35 Absolutely happy to share Chris!! So, funny enough, we had an accidental launch last week because I accidentally clicking launch now. Had to contact PH to undo the launch. Since then, I set the launch date to be one week after.
Throughout that one week, my and my team (5 more members) did the following:
- make sure our website is optimized as much as we can
- build up hype on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn by posting that we are launching in 5, 3, 1 days.
- engage with the Product Hunt community by replying to and create discussions
- we did it religiously, non-stop for 7 days to build up an audience to follow the launch
- this is key though, keep it genuine. Engage authentically with people.
On the day of launch, we made sure to reply to every single comment or review. Don't know if that helps with the ranking or not but I hope so. We had the highest upvote-to-comment ratio out of all the launches of the day.
That's pretty much it, we didn't use a hunter and in hindsight, maybe that would've helped?? who knows.
Here's the dark side though, you will get exhausted replying to people for 24h straight. My team and I barely slept during launch day to make sure we can engage and reply to everyone. So, do this strategy at your own precaution.
@chrishalliday35 @alec_afforai This is hilarious... the fact that you accidentally launched. I feel like it's so 'founder' of you. We just have a million things going on and bound to make mistakes like that.
Good to hear the PH team got you sorted. And thanks for the insights, I'll be launching in August some time.
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@chrishalliday35 @drewsalesplaybookbuilder Yea, the struggle is real. But hey, it keeps you going.
Good luck on the launch Drew.
@chrishalliday35 @alec_afforai this was so helpful!
Sending you positivity and lots of awesome vibes Alec
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@chrishalliday35 @arbaazio Glad to hear that Arbaaz!! and thank you. Good luck with your launch. Just followed.
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@carlos_afonso Thank you Carlos
wow congrats!
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@marilena_n Appreciate it Marilena!
Congratulations! Good to hear :)
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FirstHR
Great result Alec, my congrats!
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@nickanisimov Thank you so much Nick
Congratulations!
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@dennis_ashford Grateful for your support Dennis!
Huge result, Alec! My congrats.
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@iren_ivashchinenko Thanks Iren for supporting me
WOW! This really cool, congrats!
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@oleg_eltsov Thank you a ton Oleg
Congrats!
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@abigail88 thanks Abigail
wow congrats
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@zerosand1 appreciate it Priyanshu
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@alex_petruchio Thank you Alex
My best congrats!
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@dmitriy_pegov Thank you so much Dmitriy
Great job, Alec! My congrats ๐๐๐
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@branimir_vuchih Branimir thank you a lot
Wow amazing, have you seen it also help with SEO?
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@pothamram Oh absolutely, it improved our presence so much Ram. Also. good luck with your launch. Can't wait.
Excellent result, Alec. Hopefully they will be transfered in paid users.
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@vasiliy_berenkov Thank you Vasiliy, yes, hopefully.
Thatโs great! We launched Linklab today and could really use your feedback ๐
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@namrata_arya Done. Happy to support.
@alec_afforai thank you! ๐
Congrats, Alec! Hopefully, you'll share some tips on that :))
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@lussine_sargsyan just shared some tips above. Feel free to ask me if you have more questions.
Perfect result of the launch. ๐
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@vova_makstakov thank you for the support Vova
Good job! This is a huge result ๐
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@mila_bronshtein Thanks a lot Mila!!