When we joined Y-Combinator a while ago, one of the first pieces of advice was to launch early on Product Hunt and Hackernews.
The goal was to bring the product to the market and see the consumer reaction in an environment where people quickly adopt new apps.
I wasn’t thinking about it much, so I prepared a fast launch.
To my surprise, we started battling with the top-of-the-day vote-by-vote. It seemed that people liked what we were doing.