Thoughts after Product Hunt launch

Something magical happened. I launched on Product Hunt on Monday at 4pm CET. After 20 minutes I had second thoughts like "Damn, I should have waited tomorrow morning", but then for some reason totally unknown to me, the post has been set to "on hold until September 1st" — I really have no idea why, but this saved my launch. I kept doing my things, had dinner, killed some Clickers on The Last of Us 2, and then went to sleep.

September 1st — I wake up at 8am, check my emails, and finally open Product Hunt, curious about what was going on...boom. First product of the day! I knew this wouldn't have lasted long as there are way cooler and interesting projects for PH readers, but I spent my breakfast and the following hours with a dumb smile while refreshing the page watching the upvotes going up, and up, and up.

A couple hours later: "You got mail, someone booked a call for the Pro plan"— can you imagine, I went full "Nintendo 64 kid" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU). I had the call the day after and looks like they're going to start with the free trial 🥳

Another potential customer wrote me on the chat, asking if could take care of something in his Shopify and that it was interested in the Basic plan. I obviously said yes, and that I was available for a call, but then he ghosted as you would do with your evil-ex.

Around 3pm, "someone booked a call" — wow. I check the store and it's a HUGE store here in Italy. I thought about what would mean to manage such a big store, and I got to realize that I prefer to have 10 small clients, rather than 3 big, even if they pay more. We got on a call the day after, but the guy totally misunderstood what we do. But, just the fact that this mega store found me somehow, it's a good sign.

At the end of the day, I got 220 upvotes (thanks everyone!), 2 booked calls, about 1k views on the page, and a lot of satisfaction.

Last of Us 2. Clickers. Bed.

Wake up at 8am — "someone booked a call for Tuesday 8th".

Guys, I'm positive.