Product Hunt Launch Day
by Ben RobertsonI decided to just launch on Product Hunt
I've not really done a launch like that before, but have been wanting to drive traffic to the site and get backlinks.
I wasn't sure what to expect, but so far it's driven a lot more traffic than I thought (225 users so far today). I'm hovering around #14 for the day.
Things I definitely didn't expect:
- an outage from my API provider, requiring me to refactor to a different provider as quick as possible
- my new provider not having any word safety built in, leading to pictures of ... anatomy on my home page in the afternoon until I caught that
Will post a retro after launch day is over.
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Nice story, Ben. Thank you for sharing your journey. I happened to make a similar website a few months ago. Instead of generating coloring pages, the website generates custom designs for pet collars. The idea is to allow users to generate collars that are unique to their pets and to allow unlimited customization. The user prompts go through several layers of refinement done by ChatGPT, and any harmful prompts will be stripped out, as you described in your case. I wonder how fast your platform can generate the results (sorry for not trying it personally as I don't have a need for coloring pages yet, but my baby girl will probably need that soon)? On my end, each generation takes 2 - 3 minutes, and since it is so slow, I can hardly imagine anyone would want to use such a product; hence, it was abandoned.
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It takes about 8-12 seconds for each coloring page to be created. I've experimented with ways to speed things up, but the quality usually suffers.
Once I hit some higher revenue numbers, I think I'll unlock other options for speeding things up (ie dedicated GPU), but for now it's fast enough for most people!
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