We Failed with ProductHunt Launch
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Why would you think that it's not possible to launch it more or less organically? It's definitely possible here on HN, why would PH should be very different?
At the very end - don't focus on promoting that much, especially artificially, build the product people love and you get your front page.
It's possible here, but the majority of Show HN submissions don't get much attention either.
But to anyone who doesn't manage to get any traction on HN or PH, I wouldn't worry about it too much - it's one of those things that's nice if it happens but you shouldn't be counting on it in your business plan.
"Not focusing on promoting" is not an option if you start a product and nobody knows it even exists. You gotta take some actions to reach out to potential customers.
Obviously artificially doing it isn't the way, I guess we misjudged what "artificially" means for PH - that's the point of the blog post as well.