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Tell Me What's Wrong With this Product Hunt Launch.

I posted this today. Worked on it very much on the side. Didn't even think I'd really launch it when I only found 2 deals worth sharing last week. Now there's 18 deals listed.
The deals are great, but this Product Hunt launch is terrible.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/no-code-black-friday
List all the ways it's bad, and what I could have done better.

  • Better logo
  • Better screenshots?
  • More work to get folks to the product hunt page earlier?
on November 28, 2019
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    Hey Andrew, I posted a similar site a couple days ago and the PH support told me deals sites are against their guidelines so it would not be featured.

    It's not cos the product isn't good, it's not a right fit. Best people to ask is the support via Intercom, that's what I do. This was my one: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/black-design-toolbox

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      Yep, they still allow it, it's just not featured on the popular page. At least that's what the support team told me.

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        Yeah weird that they don't let maker black friday products feature on the homepage, but send us all a big 'Black Friday deals for founders' in the PH newsletter: https://www.producthunt.com/newsletter/3662

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          Appsumo is a sponsor... sooo i see it a bit. But funny that I remeber a ton of traffic 2 yrs ago when BF deal sites were there and now the products are good on PH but no love. Podcorn was posted... its awesome for.podcasters... gamechanger for some!

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    That happened to me too with Colors&fonts and I asked. A curator has put your product to launch tomorrow. They might have seen potential.

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      I sorta messed it up, that's why it's relaunching tomorrow. :) I posted with a new maker profile, when I had a maker profile that's done well before. There's 4 options to log in and if you pick the wrong one, you create a new profile.

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    It says scheduled for tomorrow.

    • Logo fine
    • Screenshots need work
    • Yep, key to get off to a good start. So use your "network" to pick up early PH votes.
    • Add a banner saying, "We're live on PH"
    • Drive people to site from Slack / Telegram / FB / Reddit groups (then you've got the PH banner)
    • Share with no code influencers. Try and get @bentossell involved 😂
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      Thanks Harry!
      Any specific examples of good screenshots? I just added a few more/different ones. and made a custom first screenshot, taking a cue from your PH page.

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        @harrydry i improved the list with images and put up better screenshots. Thx for the input.

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          np - good luck

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