a single source, nothing corroborates it
Write the maker comment the night before
Several hundred people will read the first comment, so draft it in advance and write it as a conversation with future users rather than an announcement. Then spend the day in the thread, in replies and in your inbox. Badgering friends for votes is the part that backfires.
The method
- 01
Draft your maker comment ahead of time and treat it as a conversation with future users, since several hundred people will read it.
- 02
Spend the rest of launch day answering comments, tweets and emails instead of hunting extra votes - pressuring friends and blanket-posting backfires.
What it returned
He wrote and thought through the first comment the night before, expecting a few hundred readers.
He explicitly rejects his earlier tactic of chasing upvotes on Facebook and badgering friends as counterproductive.
Sources
- How I got 2,000 new subscribers from Product HuntHarry Dry · Marketing Examples · Step 3 - My Post · undated
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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