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What do you think of Product Hunt Ship?

I signed up for Product Hunt's "Ship". If you're not familiar with Ship, it is a landing page for your "upcoming" product. It has a nifty little chat and signup. The goal is to get some buzz before you launch.

I put up our product: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/ayrshare

What has your experience with Ship? Have you found it to be worth it?

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    I ran "ship" about a year ago. Got about 75 subscribers pre-launch. Roughly 10 were active PH accounts the rest were inactive or spam accounts. Your result might differ. This was my experience.

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      Wow! I've been reading a lot about fake/spam accounts on PH. That's rough!

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      Spam/Inactive. That is no good. Wasn't even considering that.

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      Wow, that's an aweful ROI. I sincerely hope this isn't the norm.

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    I got a decent number of subscribers over the course of a few months but no where near worth it, in my opinion, the price. That said, maybe I hadn’t built a good product to begin with.

    One thing that is objectively bad is the experience. I’ve run into so many bugs or UX oddities that it feels like the product was thrown together over the weekend just to make a few bucks.

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      I agree. The UX needs some love.

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    I used to think again give Ship a try, but after reading all the comments, it's definitely a NO. Thanks for posting this!

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    We put our product on Ship last week ahead of our Product Hunt launch this week (not enough time really, but anyway): https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/opinionx

    I feel like you don't get anything from Ship unless you find some way to drive a lot of traffic to your page. We weren't interested in doing that so close to our PH launch (tomorrow!) as it would reduce our conversion on PH on the big day. Wasn't overly useful for us as a result, but again - we didn't invest much into it/

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    I think it's basically like an expensive landing page software. Very little product discovery seems to happen through PH and most sign ups (from my limited experience) come from your own promotion of the Ship page.

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      I've been seeing that too. Seem to get more signups from my tweets than direct promotion.

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        I've considered signing up for Ship, but reading this I believe setting up your own landing page on your own domain is better for SEO even?

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    Like I said on Twitter last night, I personally wish they had a more affordable option. I find 59$/month quite steep (and that's only if you fork over the accumulated yearly amount of ~700$, otherwise you'll pay 79$/month) especially during the early stages when you need to spend money on so many services to get things rolling - all without earning a dime from your project yet.

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    I hate those landing pages. I click on the link see the product hasn’t launched close page and never think of the product again. Most products aren’t interesting enough for me to think twice about them.

    If you’re a week away from launching wait a week and launch.

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    I used it and it was the least effective of all my channels. Not worth it.

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    Was curious about this as well - helpful to see everyone's comments/feedback here.

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    never used it, but it's mostly hit or miss it feels from friends who have used it!

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    Product Hunt's Ship product is interesting.

    It's a landing page, but it's not really because there are better and cheaper alternatives. It's a chat page, but again, there are better alternatives.

    I've traditionally looked at this as "buying" access to Product Hunt's editorial staff. By being a paid customer, it may be more likely they'll boost your product on launch day.

    Again, this only helps if your product is already well polished enough and has somewhat of a product market fit. They can't boost a product that's obviously subpar.

    I wished they would make a separate section where one could pay the $59 / month fee or whatever it is to get into a special app directory listing.

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    To be honest, I don't see the relation between the high price and the outcome of ships..

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