Product Hunt aftermath 🔥

If you're new here, I'm André, a tech entrepreneur and founder of LaunchFast, a stack designed to help web developers significantly speed up their project development time. I post daily updates on my journey and progress.

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Ok, so today is the day after launching LaunchFast on Product Hunt.

I don’t have anything to compare this launch against, to know how successful it was, so I’m taking it as my baseline and figuring out what I can improve for the next one.

Let’s get into it. Here are the metrics for this launch:

• 271 different people visited the landing page
• Made a few sales
• Ended in 11th place for the day

Things I will do better for the next launch

Getting votes on Product Hunt is much like a political campaign. You have to get in front of people and give them good reasons to vote for you.

Exposing your product doesn’t matter much if the people you expose it to aren’t Product Hunt users with accounts that are at least 2 weeks old, because new accounts can’t upvote products.

So, on my next launch, I will engage much more and much earlier with people who are active on Product Hunt.

This is also my target audience for LaunchFast, so win-win.

Missed opportunities

The other thing I feel was a missed opportunity was not having a newsletter component on the landing page to capture emails from users who might be on the fence about buying LaunchFast before it has payments or AI integrations.

The other one was that I could have pushed it a little further to get 2 more votes and ended in the top 10. The benefit of ending in the top 10 is that LaunchFast would have been featured on Product Hunt’s Daily Digest, which is read by millions? (I forget of exact value) of readers.

Moving forward

Now that the product has officially been launched, it’s time to look forward.

Here’s the plan:

Engage more with Product Hunters ahead of the next launch (after payment and AI integrations potentially)

Create the documentation for LaunchFast, which includes video format that will also serve as content for social media

Integrate payments and AI into LaunchFast

Allow customers to suggest and prioritize items in the roadmap

Engage with current customers to assess their experience and potentially fix pain points

Add a newsletter component to the landing page to allow users to get notified of updates to the stack

And that’s it folks. Overall, I’m feeling very positive about this experience and I think I’ll do a considerably better job on the next launch.

That’s it for today folks. Have a great rest of your week 🙌😄