Hey everyone,
Thought I would share a bit of my experience from launching Felix AI on Product Hunt last week.
Here's the page.... https://www.producthunt.com/posts/felix-ai
I've gotten to close to launching several products on PH in the past but usually ended up chickening out or thinking what I'd made was too scrappy to upload... so I just kept postponing sharing anything.
Even though everyone says to launch early (I totally get it) - it's hard to shake off your own imposter syndrome or niggling doubts in your head about actually putting your thing out into the world.
I'd made Felix as a tool to convert blog posts into video trailers, insta stories and audio clips automatically - as it took me ages when I've had to do this myself by hand!
So on Friday I just decide to say screw it, I'm just going to post it right now. I didn't have any big plan or perfect pitch I'd been planning for ages - I just knocked together a few gifs and a video I'd made before and stuck it up on Product Hunt.
After a few hours, I'd had probably 5 upvotes and just put it to the back of my mind... basically writing it off.
But then over the course of the weekend something quite unexpected happened... my phone was buzzing non stop with signups!
At first I thought it was some kind of bug, this couldn't possibly be real.
Amazingly I got tons of positive feedback, it seemed people really did like what I'd made... which was so nice to hear.
The product did also go down a few times (never expected that many people to be using it at once) so I had a few issues to fix!
All in all was a great experience and has really set off some momentum of more people signing up now.
If you're like me and really nervous about sharing things I'd encourage you to just go for it - what's the worst that could happen!
Could you share some insights on how many signups you got, website vistors ..etc ?
We made a little blog post about some of the key numbers. Boils down to about 130 signups and 1000 website hits - which I thought was brilliant :)
https://gofelix.ai/blog/product-hunt-is-there-an-app-for-that-some-learnings-from-felix/
This has got some really great inisghts , thanks
Can you please share if you used PH upcoming feature, or did you just launch via PH?
I did have the premium Ship membership for a year but never used it properly, so this time I didn't bother with an Upcoming page and just went straight to a launch on PH.
I'm not sure the Upcoming route is right for everyone, it mainly caused me to postpone posting to the main site!
cheers James.
Awesome stuff! Congratulations.
Did you have a hunter post your product for you or did you just post it to product hunt yourself?
Thank you! I just decided to hunt it myself, though I would have definitely benefited from having some more prominent upvoters.
One thing I would do next time is reach out to more people and ask them to check it out when I launched in the hope they might upvote it a bit further.
I forgot to add the actual number of signups we had (doh!) so far we're looking at just over 100 signups which is amazing... the next challenge is to convert them from free trial to paid subscriber. 🤪