a single source, nothing corroborates it
Post one minute past midnight Pacific, midweek
New listings appear on the homepage at midnight Pacific, so posting a minute later buys the entire twenty four hour window instead of a slice of it. Choosing a midweek day keeps that window clear of the weekend dip. Both decisions are free and both change how much exposure the identical post gets.
The method
- 01
Schedule the post for one minute past midnight Pacific time, since new products land on the homepage at midnight and this buys the entire 24-hour window of exposure.
- 02
Launch midweek rather than into the weekend so you don't lose part of your window to the quiet period.
What it returned
- 12
Posted at 12:01 AM PST.
He chose Wednesday 7th August specifically to sidestep the weekend dip in traffic.
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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