"How can you get featured on Product Hunt? "
Honest question, I've never followed or cared about PH. It's that big of a deal to be featured there?
Honest question, I've never followed or cared about PH. It's that big of a deal to be featured there?
More than 80% of the stuff you see on product hunt (on it's home page) is directly placed there by influencers (that have bypassed upvotes and comments to get there).
So if you are a creator and submit your product to product hunt, you are severely disadvantaged - it's much better if either (form best to worst case):
1. You know an influencer and he/she submits it to the featured list.
2. An influencer organically submits it to the featured list.
3. An submitter (who's not related to you) submits it.
4. You submit it (either by emailing them about it, or by submitting it yourself).
I'm actually working on a side project that would make Product Hunt a lot more transparent (who are core influencers, which product types succeed, etc.)
It is a more productive use of product development to improve the product then figure out how to game Product Hunt since you will not be able to compete with people who buy sponsored Twitter ads for their PH page. (Yes, this happens!)
That said, one of the startups I interned at, had a massive internal doc (and tools) on how exactly to game product hunt (which I believe was extremely effective) - The startup ran out of business and is no longer around, which is why I was trying to recreate that document + tool.