Hi everyone!I just launched my project on Product Hunt, and I wanted to share the insane launch day we had on Product Hunt. Hope it helps someone else with the same issue!
So, launch day comes, and it's like we're invisible. Our product's up, but no one can see us. No biggie right? After all, products are shuffled around randomly for the first 4 hours. We had some early upvotes, but they were from people who had signed up for our “Coming Soon” page. No organic views.
The first 4 hours ended. Still hidden. Now we were freaking out. Despite all this, we still had 130+ upvotes at this point and should be at #6 and immediately reached out to Product Hunt. All we found online was that sometimes Product Hunt doesn’t feature your post if you have violated their community guidelines(we hadn’t!).
Then late at night, when we had almost given up, Product Hunt support got back to us and reinstated us. We finally show up and at #7! It had been 10+ hours since the launch and almost midnight here. Talk about a last-minute save! We pulled an all-nighter, running on coffee and adrenaline. By morning, we hit #4.
The day was spent engaging non-stop, sharing our story, and connecting with the community. The crazy part? And in the literal last hour, we made a surprising leap to #3. It was a wild finish to an unforgettable day.
We lost some time(almost half the day!) and missed out on a LOT of site visitors and users but the support we got was unreal. It wasn't smooth, but man, was it memorable.For more details, you can read on IndieHackers.
I hope this gives some hope to fellow entrepreneurs out there. Launch days can be wild, but hang in there! I'd love to hear your thoughts and stories - Have you had a launch day that didn’t go as planned? How did you handle it?
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