no robot here - just a hustler working on product hunt and, yes, manually reaching out to founders to let them know that they just got free press.
Many of them respond with a "Thanks". Not one person has said "Spam".
Many of them respond with a "Thanks". Not one person has said "Spam".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8032837
I hope you're not going to continue to do that. I get you're hustling, but this isn't the right way to do this.
> Not one person has said "Spam".
I marked the tweet as spam via the report the tweet feature, I don't know if people usually actually reply as "this is spam."
I agree with the other comments that this is a useful feature, but would be more well suited for a customized twitter account with a name explaining it better.
If anyone has suggestions for ways to automate part of this, as it takes a long time, i'm open!
Perhaps you could require your product submitters to insert the contact email for the products they are submitting. Then, you could auto email the founder as soon as their product is posted on Product Hunt.
for some reason, we find that people are more responsive on twitter.