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What makes you think PH will be a worthwhile platform for launching if you don't even use it? Everything you get from that launch ends the same day of your lau

What makes you think PH will be a worthwhile platform for launching if you don't even use it? Everything you get from that launch ends the same day of your launch. The hard problem you must solve - finding an audience for your product - will be harder for pursuing their audience instead. There must by now be many products that went through that mincer and came out dead cause they couldn't find a profit that way and couldn't think past "can a business model really be as simple as submitting my link to some sites".

kamalkishor1991 10y ago
We do have few hundreds users which we got through reddit and medium. We are just thinking of putting it out there in front more people and get feedback and PH feedback tends to be great. We do think PH users will like it. Also I have been using PH for quite some time now but never signed up. Thanks for the reply.
- benologist 10y ago
  The risk with PH users is that they're only using the site for a stream of new products. No product matters because later there will be more new products to look at. Even the products they like will only be liked that day. Do you know of any companies that actually launched and flourished because of PH?
  - wirddin 10y ago
    "Do you know of any companies that actually launched and flourished because of PH?" ^ It's too soon to judge any product/startup by its PH launch at this moment. But then, a lot of huge companies launch their products there.
    - benologist 10y ago
      It's been 3.5 years and that's surely a lot of attempts... https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt#/entity https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt#/entity Do you mean companies that were already huge launched new products there? That's proof they have traction, not that they hand it out.
      - wirddin 10y ago
        What I was saying was that you can't put everything on PH for success of a company. PH is not about companies. If you have a really nice product and you need people who can give valuable feedback, you put it there. A lot of people think about PH first for their initial traffic, which makes sense. As you said, people just scroll through products. While scrolling, if they find your product attractive (or thumbnail / tagline) then it's a win-win for you. As a user, I go to PH to check out new things. And I have stuck to most of the apps which I liked on PH.

kamalkishor1991 10y ago

We do have few hundreds users which we got through reddit and medium. We are just thinking of putting it out there in front more people and get feedback and PH feedback tends to be great. We do think PH users will like it. Also I have been using PH for quite some time now but never signed up. Thanks for the reply.

benologist 10y ago
The risk with PH users is that they're only using the site for a stream of new products. No product matters because later there will be more new products to look at. Even the products they like will only be liked that day. Do you know of any companies that actually launched and flourished because of PH?
- wirddin 10y ago
  "Do you know of any companies that actually launched and flourished because of PH?" ^ It's too soon to judge any product/startup by its PH launch at this moment. But then, a lot of huge companies launch their products there.
  - benologist 10y ago
    It's been 3.5 years and that's surely a lot of attempts... https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt#/entity https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt#/entity Do you mean companies that were already huge launched new products there? That's proof they have traction, not that they hand it out.
    - wirddin 10y ago
      What I was saying was that you can't put everything on PH for success of a company. PH is not about companies. If you have a really nice product and you need people who can give valuable feedback, you put it there. A lot of people think about PH first for their initial traffic, which makes sense. As you said, people just scroll through products. While scrolling, if they find your product attractive (or thumbnail / tagline) then it's a win-win for you. As a user, I go to PH to check out new things. And I have stuck to most of the apps which I liked on PH.