I failed so bad this time

I failed at Product Hunt launch so bad this time that It feels like why I did I launch so early without building audience first.

I launched https://www.producthunt.com/posts/visionos-fan and got only 4 upvotes but 13 signups(not bots) on waitlist.

I really don't know should I celebrate? 🥳 or feel sad? 😔

I have to launch this again with MVP which serves little value to users.

I'm really want to know what do you all do when you failed so badly that question own-self whether to continue on this idea or forget and start something else?

Continue on the idea? or
Start something new?

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Nikhil Gohil

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on August 10, 2023

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Hi, failed Product Hunt launcher here too. I had the same feeling as you. What I did was much worse than you in fact, related to the comments. I did nothing except Launching on Product Hunt. Nobody heard about me and my product before. That's a newbie mistake. That's when I discovered Indie hackers and makers community.

Since then I learned a lot. I decided to grow my knowledge and in several weeks I will launch my product again. On twitter, hacker news or reddit. Until then, I'll work a little bit on my product and think about working on other new things.

What I suppose I can learn from my failure is : Your product is not a failure if nobody discovers it, but if nobody tries it.

mho22

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  Yes right, people still joining waitlist. so it's not complete failure 😊
  
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Can you share how you prepared for the launch? Might be useful to us others to avoid some mistakes that you may have made, if you don't mind sharing :)

vitobotta

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  I'm here to share everything... the biggest mistake I did was not reaching everyone personally.
  
  Last time with my first product I reach to so many via twitter DM who I think relevant to use my "XCLOC Translator" product but this time I only published tweets and share on reddit and wait for everyone to come and see the product.
  
  So it was not a good idea, even the users who I'm engaging on twitter from last few weeks who got visionOS in their bio, didn't upvoted on PH and I feel kind of not to DM them,
  
  But the good news is my waitlist is growing now, don't know from where.
  
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  yeah, I launched too early I guess.
  
  Thanks for sharing detail, for next launch I'm planning well.
  
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