We made #1 Fintech Product of the Week!

Rich Watson
28 replies
Thank you to everyone who helped by supporting our launch last week, and much love to the PH team! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/trade-hub-the-social-trading-app 1 hour ago Trade Hub was crowned #1 Fintech Product of the Week and received a cool badge to rep on our website! Trade Hub - The Social Trading App - Where traders collaborate, track, share, & copy trades | Product Hunt Funny story about our launch: I've been here daily for the past 6+ months, receiving (sometimes giving) tons of advice from makers & developers, and announcing our launch 2 weeks in advance. Solid preparations, although now I know what I should improve on for the next launch. One of our competitors caught wind of our launch, and with a userbase 7x bigger than ours but only 12 hours' notice before 12:01am of launch day, they announced they too would launch. I welcomed the competition, and the morning started rocky as we were not marked as a 'Featured' product, but once we were, it went really well for us, ranking #3 for most of it, then dropping to #5 around noon as our competitor was acquiring upvotes like crazy. The evening came, and they were 1 rank above us, but before the midnight bell rang to end the day, the PH algorithm had removed about half of their upvotes and de-ranked them behind us. Why? I'm not sure; I won't speculate, but we all have an idea of how the PH algorithm works. David vs Goliath scenario, underdogs, but preparation paid off. Sticking to the checklist, marking emails as spam saying they would guarantee a top 5 spot, networking & outreach, and it all went in our favor! I'm overjoyed right now!

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Brenna Donoghue
Congrats! Way to stay the course!
Sebastian Janus - derStartupCFO
Congratulations @richw and good 🤞
Cristina Imre
Interesting story and good for you, Rich. There is justice in the world!~ :)
Jessie
Woohoo 🙌 congrats!
Nadezhda Kuzmenko
Congrats, Rich!
Richa Sharma
Upscale: The Sales Engagement Platform
Upscale: The Sales Engagement Platform
What a story, it's amazing! Congratulations on the feature! 🚀
Harshavardhan Reddy
Fantastic.. All the Very Best and congratulations
Gaurav Goyal
That's a crazy story. Many congratulations on this feat :)
Anoir Houmou
Incredible, congrats on the launch!
Burak SERPEN
Socialays: Social Media Guard
Socialays: Social Media Guard
Congratulations Rick!! It seems such a rocky journey but in the end 🎉🎉🎉 YOU'RE #1 🎉🎉🎉
Software Guy (Aarvy)
YUHUUU, Congratulations, much more to come.✨✨
Maria Hayat
ApyHub : The All in one API Platform
ApyHub : The All in one API Platform
This is amazing @richw, congratulations on a successful launch!
Selin Anil
Congratulations! Hard work pays! Did you announce your launch here on a PH Discussion or which channel did you use? :-)
Rich Watson
NVSTly: Social Investing
NVSTly: Social Investing
@selin_anil Our users, in our Discord, spreadsheet of PH makers, launch support groups, here in discussion, linked in gorups, facebook groups, slack groups. here's a list of 100+ ph makers https://docs.google.com/spreadsh...
Selin Anil
@richw Great, I wasn't aware of the spreadsheet, just dropped my line and looking forward to connect with the makers!
Anthony Rees
@selin_anil @richw How did you connect with those makers?
Rich Watson
NVSTly: Social Investing
NVSTly: Social Investing
@selin_anil @anthony_rees Here's a spreadsheet of over 100+ makers https://docs.google.com/spreadsh... There are also slack groups, and a telegram and whats app group. https://t.me/ProductHuntGlobal <---- LAUNCH GROUP ON TELEGRAM https://web.whatsapp.com/ <--- LAUNCH GROUP ON WHATSAPP here's the slack and facebook groups; https://www.facebook.com/groups/... https://www.facebook.com/groups/... https://mindtheproduct.slack.com/ https://techmaster.slack.com https://product-school.slack.com/ https://startuphuntworkspace.sla...
Selin Anil
@anthony_rees @richw Great, how can I get in those slack groups? Do I need an invitation?
Meow
NVSTly: Social Investing
NVSTly: Social Investing
Colin Johnson
Congrats! That's huge
Failmane
Sounds very exciting, I wish I had witnessed this epic :( Good luck with the development!
Haider
💪 nicely done!