I was working hard towards this day for months together with my team, launching SetOps - The cloud experience developers have waited for. 🙂
Currently on #5 - it's a challenging way to make it to the top.
Next to the launch, I wanted to share some early insights with you about launching a quite complex SaaS that not everyone is understands 😄
➡️ Organic Traffic bringing upvotes?
I would say no.
➡️ Early Adopters flooding your platform?
Do not expect a lot of early adopters within the launch day - the active community is not soo much into deep tech. But I can already see multiplier effects 📈
➡️ US Market is Key?
Yes, it is. You can see how US-based startups are ramping up their speed ~6 hours after the start because their network is waking up.
➡️ Prepare your network
Start as early as you can, interacting with the Product Hunt community. Only they will give you valid upvotes. You don't have any community outreach? Really think about launching twice. 😉 New community members get shadow-banned; they bring you a higher count but no higher ranking.
I will update this in a few days to tell you what happened after the launch ✌️
Appreciating every support on the launch today 🙌