Results from Product Hunt Launch

Hey Everyone,

Here's my results from Sheet Monkey's launch on Product Hunt. I built Sheet Monkey as a small little side project to scratch my own itch. It seemed simple enough to release it to a wider audience and I figured that Product Hunt would be a good place for that. (Quick note: I also submitted to Beta List and they turned me down. 🤷‍♂️)

I kicked off the launch process with this Tweet, looking for an influential hunter: https://twitter.com/LeviNunnink/status/1313149214960939010 As a result of that @mubashariqbal was kind enough to chat with me and agreed to help me with the launch. Thanks again, Mubs!

Next, I put together a little Product Hunt kit using Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i4ozlP1L5n68Wmx4OkWKP0G5iCGaDyL8XaSPj1h4rnI/edit?usp=sharing We decided to launch on a Friday because I didn't feel that Sheet Monkey was big enough to rank on a high traffic day.

Finally, the day of the launch, I sent out an email to the current Sheet Monkey users, posted here and on some other communities that I'm a member of, and Tweeted out to my followers: https://twitter.com/LeviNunnink/status/1319609518368632833

Here's the results for the launch day:

• ✅ 120+ upvotes on the product: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/sheet-monkey
• 💬 5 comments
• 📈 Was featured and ranked at #7 on the homepage for most of the day
• 👀 351 unique visitors, 817 pageviews to sheetmonkey.io
• 👨‍💻18 new users on the day of the launch

Above is a chart of my users since launching in Aug 6th. The other small bump I got was from a Webflow integration that I posted on their forums.

Here's a shot of my traffic before and after the launch. It definitely got a lot of eyeballs.

Sheet Monkey launched on Aug 8th to a very slow start: we only added 3 users in the first month! Today we have 112 users, 65 of which joined in October! I'm proud of the little service. Hopefully it continues to find an audience.

Thanks, IH, for all your help!