You need to get a certain critical mass of upvotes early in your submission to get "featured" (which shows your post to random people who browse to producthunt.

You need to get a certain critical mass of upvotes early in your submission to get "featured" (which shows your post to random people who browse to producthunt.com). Easiest way to do that is to get someone with a lot of followers (either on ProductHunt or Twitter) to post on your behalf.