a single source, nothing corroborates it
Count the wait when a hunter has to post it
Handing the submission to somebody with a following means launching on their schedule rather than yours. One maker had his hunter lined up and still expected another week or two before anything appeared. Weigh that delay against what their reach is actually worth to you.
The method
- 01
If you rely on someone else to hunt your product on Product Hunt, expect the launch to slip by a week or two while you wait on them.
What it returned
Zue had found a hunter but was still waiting, and estimated another week or two before the post went up
Sources
- Week 18 RetrospectiveCory Zue · coryzue.com · Comments · 2017-07-24
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.
More in product hunt
- Count the second wave, not the referral clicks3 unconnected · contested
- Run it even when you will not chart3 unconnected
- Launch the small or unpolished thing anyway2 unconnected
- Launch it again once something real has changed2 unconnected
- Put the same release on every board that day2 unconnected
- Convert the day into email subscribers2 unconnected