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Falk: Hacker News drove 2x to 3x more users than Product Hunt
“Fig was at the top of hack and use basically all day. Like it was a really long day for my co-founder and me, but that got us, I would say double if not triple the number of users from hack and use as opposed to product time.”
Zitoun: Product Hunt is only worth it for early-stage startups
“I think when you just started and you don't have a lot of choice, it's something good to do. But after like, we don't care if we are like eight in the day or tens when we launch again on product.”
Lemlist found Product Hunt launches are becoming less effective for software distribution
“But as we do more Product Hunt launches, the impact, unfortunately, is going down, and it's not as effective as it was before.”
Martinello: 90% of Product Hunt launch work happens in prior four weeks
“Like, 90% of the work is done in, in, in the four weeks before.”
Deken: Product Hunt customer cohort churned significantly higher than other cohorts
“We did see that like the churn from that particular cohort was significantly higher than our overall churn from all other cohorts.”
McLeod: Product Hunt builds steady followings; Hacker News is an all-or-nothing lottery
“I think Product Hunt is probably Better for kind of, like, building up the following, whereas Hacker News can be more of a kind of, yeah, you can plug away at lots of things, and it can either go sky high or nothing, so it's more of a black or white situation,…”
Duke: Product Hunt drives launch spikes but lacks long-tail traffic
“Product hunt is much more friendly in terms of letting people kind of glom on and being very sort of positive, like the community there in general is nicer, but it's the opposite of a long tail, right? Like you're not going to be able to bring it up in a lot o…”
Moon: PR and Product Hunt Traffic Bumps Rarely Drive B2B MRR
“I think one of the things that a lot of those types of events, you know, you could feature an entrepreneur.com or anchor or those types of things we've had. We've had all of those things happen, and frequently they bring a bump in traffic frequently they don't…”
Spitzer: Lalamoo Has Generated Over 20,000 Lip-Sync Videos Since May Launch
“Every day about thousand videos are created each day, 1000 videos being created since 14 of May, we launched it on Product Hunt, and since then we got over 20,000 created videos, lip sync videos.”
Tally doubled its user base to 3,000 on Product Hunt launch day
“We also doubled our user base from 1500 to 3000 people in one day, so that was really like the first kind of push of growth that we needed.”
Tally cold-emailed competitors' Product Hunt upvoters to acquire its initial users
“We would reach out to them and do this over and over and over again for about half a year actually. So we had contacted thousands of people by called Outreach, and that is how we found our first users in a very non-scalable way.”
Smith: Leon drove launch signups via provocative posts in sales communities
“What we did is we took that, that product launch and then went to like, you know, Dave Gerhardt's community and sort of like started talking to sort of the marketing people there and then went to some of the sales communities and just started like literally pu…”
Claap gained 3,000 signups in six weeks from Product Hunt
“But then in total with the launch, I would say like the effect of the launch, it lasts around like six weeks. And in six weeks, we got around 3000 new sign up. Thanks to the launch.”
Pumfleet: Cal.com waitlist reached thousands before public launch announcement
“We launched it on Product Hunt because like already there were people piling up with, you know, like the wait list for this grew to like, I think it grew to like thousands before we'd even shared that we're actually building it.”
Pumfleet: Cal.com gained up to 50 paying customers on launch day
“Literally, I think we got about, it would have been like maybe up to 50 paying customers in the first day. I don't know exactly.”
Darbyshire: SmartSuite converted 20 to 25 paid customers from Product Hunt
“Probably 20, 25 probably came from product hunt with the discount code that we provided.”
Claap drove waitlist growth via a viral meeting calculator on Product Hunt
“So one of the things we did, for example, was to launch a meeting calculator. It's on our website as well. And basically like you connect your Google calendar, and then you are going to see a lot of like stats around like your number of meetings, like the type…”
Lenski: ecompilot.net could reach $100,000 in revenue during first launch month
“Speaking with my partners, you know, they're thinking much larger than they're saying, you know, in our first launch, when we do it properly through product home, through the correct mediums, we could go definitely to let's say a 100,000 the first month.”
Bragg: Potion has 79 paying subscribers prior to Product Hunt launch
“I have right now, 79 paid subscribers, and so that, that's obviously all before Product Hunt, and have around almost that number of people that are on the trial currently.”
Mitchell: Winning a Product Hunt hackathon drove thousands of free users
“They put us in their newsletter. They put us on their medium blog. They tweeted about us, put us on their Facebook. And then we won the hackathons. We were on the homepage of their website and, All of that resulted in thousands of people coming into the funnel…”
Mitchell: Roche Healthcare organically adopted Yac after its Product Hunt launch
“And a lot of them were in, like, weird industries we didn't expect either, like Roche Healthcare, like kind of an enterprise healthcare company, not a fun, you know, remote-first startup. So yeah, they just found out about it through Product Hunt, downloaded t…”
Mitchell: Yac acquired 900 new team signups during its March 2020 relaunch
“When we launched in March, we had 900 new teams sign up that week. So can't tell you what we did launch day, but That week we had 900 new teams.”
McCormick: Product Hunt launch added 2,000 Not Boring subscribers in days
“Got to number two, and I think in a couple of days that drove 2000 new subscribers.”
Azora shares exact funnel metrics for Unicorn Platform's Product Hunt launch
“So we got 8.2 hundred visitors, and it turned out that 300 signed up. Became users, and we had 31 sale, like 10% of people who signed up purchased with plan.”
Deken: Unstack's Product Hunt launch yielded 1,600 signups and heavy VC inbound
“Yeah, that's about right, actually. The interesting thing about product, yeah, so all that's true. We also got I don't know if I mentioned this in the article, it was like a lot of stuff, like a sub overwhelming amount of inbound VC interest from that.”
Pete McLeod: Nomad Flights had Product Hunt traction but no viable model
“There's lots of things that do great on product hunt, and it was like the perfect kind of niche for that audience, but I couldn't really find a business model that worked with that.”
AND CO launched PR content stunts every six weeks to drive growth
“What we did was we always try to launch something we call like a content stunt within every, basically like every six weeks. And that basically means something that is talk worthy enough for us to either get some PR, to have some, you know, viral effect value …”
Reply.io's Product Hunt Launch Generated $60,000 in Lifetime Value
“Probably we added I said we had a 10,000 visitors from product hunt in the next two days, 600 signups. And I would say at 10% of them we can close. So it was like 60 new customers. If we calculate in terms of lifetime value, I think this will be close to like …”
Sortd's 200,000-user acquisition has been entirely organic
“All of our traffic has been organic, and all of our acquisition has come from user referral, things like Product Hunt, Lifehacker”
Collier: Siftery ranks among top 50 most upvoted products on Product Hunt
“Yeah, I mean, also Sifter is still one of the 50 most upvoted products on product hunt, I think.”
Foo: Polymail became the third most upvoted product on Product Hunt
“We launched sort of an early Mac prototype on Product Hunt in December of last year, and that actually ended up becoming the number three most upvoted product of all time on Product Hunt in one Mac after the year.”
Mailbird gained 20,000 unique visitors on day of Product Hunt feature
“I remember the first day we saw about 20,000 unique visitors come to our website.”
Zitoun: Submagic had zero US customers before its Product Hunt launch
“First of May. Third of July, someone told us like, guys, you should do a product hunt because at this time we had zero customers on the US and my co-founder and I decided to say like, we should change the strategy. We are going fully into the US.”
Tally held the #1 spot on Product Hunt for 23 hours
“We were like product number one for 23 hours of the day and then we kind of lost the spot in the last hour. We ended up product number four, but that was not really important.”
ApproveIt's #1 Product Hunt launch yielded only 20-30 new users
“I would say, yes, somewhere between like, 20 to 30 new users, and among those, some paying customers, I would say around 10%.”
ApproveIt's #1 Product Hunt launch brought in its first investors
“And at that time, we got like number one product of the day on Product Hunt. We also got a lot of positive feedback, first paying customers, first investors.”
Singh built a 2,000-person community over 18 months before launching
“These thousand odd people, a couple thousand people is, is actually my community that I've been building over the past year and a half since I started SmartQ, right?”
SmartQ achieved Product of the Day on Product Hunt in September
“So for example, in September, when we launched our product hunt. We actually ended up being product of the day for, you know, a solo founder running a super lean team, no marketing team behind it.”
Smith: Leon signed up 6,000 early access users via Product Hunt
“So about two and a half years ago, we launched pre-product on Product Hunt, signed up roughly about 6000 early access users all from Product Hunt.”
Cal.com releases a new version of its product on the 15th monthly
“Every, every 15th of the month, you know, marking from the anniversary of, you know, when we when we actually, you know, first released it on product hunt we launched a new version”
Tutto gained 20 to 30 signups in its first week on Product Hunt
“Like the first week was like, I don't know, 2030,
20 companies.”
Mockroff: Bird Eats Bug reached #5 Product of the Day on launch
“And I think two months later, we already launched the MVP. So like the minimum viable product on product hunt, and we got to number five product of the day.”
Martinello: Akiflow reached 400 active users following Product Hunt launch
“I remember after product done, we went to 400 active users.”
Martinello: Akiflow built a 6,000-subscriber email list for Product Hunt launch
“We had 6000 people on our email list.”
Bragg: Potion generated 4,300 website visits over two-day launch
“So I got 2.8 K on the first day. And then yesterday I got another 1.5 K and about half of those were from product hunt.”
Bragg: Potion gained 65 trial signups over two launch days
“Day of, I got 39 signups with credit card up front, and yesterday, so the day after, 26.”
Mitchell: Yac's initial 2018 launch drove 1,000 downloads and 500 active users
“Yeah, so I mean, that resulted in probably a thousand signups downloads, really, you know, it's translated into downloads. You know, I think we probably had at peak maybe like 500 people using the app on kind of a weekly basis.”