Launched on ProductHunt
by Jakob GreenfeldI just submitted the site to Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/maker-reads
I have zero experience with project launched and hence tried to keep everything as simple as possible. I added a few screenshots, the logo, and a short description. Moreover, I tried submitting the project "at the right time" to make sure it has the whole day to collect votes.
Any feedback or comment would be greatly appreciated.
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Upvoted, good luck
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Great stuff, always happy to show support to useful products! Upvoted!
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Congratulations! I like the design and the resource itself is quite helpful :)
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Upvoted for nice concept 👍
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Upvoted.
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Jakob, thanks for building this. Was looking for something like this. Here are few UI tips to make the project even better:
- Hovering over each entry should make the cursor to a click pointer, instead of the current text cursor. I didn't first realize that I can click each entry to see the details.
- The actionable icons (amazon, goodreads, producthunt) should be colorful so visitors know what to click. They should standout. Right now the are not noticeable much.
- The category labels should not have a white background, they are standing out too much and looks like buttons. Since they are not actionable elements, they should not be highlighted much.
Regards
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Thanks a lot!
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Nice idea, good luck in PH, I upvoted.
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Great job! :)
I too, have zero experience with launching projects. By "the right time" you mean 10 AM UTC?
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I read the book "MAKE" by Pieter Levels in which he explains: "The timing of a launch on Product Hunt is quite important. Product Hunt's timezone is San Francisco (PST timezone) and its ranking resets at midnight. That means you will need to launch at 00:00:01 or not much later. If you submit at 9pm PST when there's 3 hours left to vote, Product Hunt will take that into account somehow with their vote algorithm, but it still simply puts you at a disadvantage. Most people know by now to launch at midnight PST, so you won't be the only ones up there then"
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