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> The app landed as the #4 product of the day on ProductHunt, had some good initial traction which proceeded to fall off a cliff. This is why you don't post o

> The app landed as the #4 product of the day on ProductHunt, had some good initial traction which proceeded to fall off a cliff. This is why you don't post on ProductHunt. Your target market isn't there. Its nothing more than an ego trip for so many founders.

allenu 5y ago
I've posted on ProductHunt as well and so many of the upvotes I get and comments that I get are clearly spambots.
- seanwilson 5y ago
  > so many of the upvotes I get and comments that I get are clearly spambots. Is there any data on this? I'd be interested to see what % of real users they have. Many times I've visited ProductHunt there's a top 4 app that doesn't seem useful at all that has tons of generic comments like "Great work!", "Can't wait to see what you do next!", "So useful!" (common on Twitter too). Guessing you could get bots to vote + comment occasionally to build up their reputation and then use or sell your bot army to manipulate the votes for specific product launches later?
  - allenu 5y ago
    I don't know if there's data, but I've seen other people posting about on Indie Hackers. I started noticing something was up when I saw the same generic comments you mentioned on my post as other people's posts. Another thing that's interesting is after you post on Product Hunt, you may get emails from third parties offering services to boost your upvotes.
kylebolt 5y ago
Very true, they are more product focused vs. habit / self development focused.
Ancapistani 5y ago
Full disclosure: I've not been down this road, so I'm talking through my hat here. Posting a project to ProductHunt is unlikely to get it in front of your target demographic, but that doesn't mean it's worthless. People will download your app and if all goes well some of those people will leave you a positive review. That matters for ranking, which gets your app in front of people. If you get some good reviews, that matters for conversion because it lends some social credit.
- kylebolt 5y ago
  We also launched via paid ads (spent around 2k on Apple Ads and FB ads)
folli 5y ago
I guess it depends on the product. I just recently posted my newest side project there (an NFT minting webservice) and I even got a handful of paying clients. The conversation rate was quite high, and it has dropped significantly afterwards. So I guess if you want to reach a techie audience, it's not a bad place to get the word out. Edit: the website is https://Nuftu.com https://Nuftu.com, you can find it on producthunt by searching for the name

allenu 5y ago

I've posted on ProductHunt as well and so many of the upvotes I get and comments that I get are clearly spambots.

seanwilson 5y ago
> so many of the upvotes I get and comments that I get are clearly spambots. Is there any data on this? I'd be interested to see what % of real users they have. Many times I've visited ProductHunt there's a top 4 app that doesn't seem useful at all that has tons of generic comments like "Great work!", "Can't wait to see what you do next!", "So useful!" (common on Twitter too). Guessing you could get bots to vote + comment occasionally to build up their reputation and then use or sell your bot army to manipulate the votes for specific product launches later?
- allenu 5y ago
  I don't know if there's data, but I've seen other people posting about on Indie Hackers. I started noticing something was up when I saw the same generic comments you mentioned on my post as other people's posts. Another thing that's interesting is after you post on Product Hunt, you may get emails from third parties offering services to boost your upvotes.

kylebolt 5y ago

Very true, they are more product focused vs. habit / self development focused.

Ancapistani 5y ago

Full disclosure: I've not been down this road, so I'm talking through my hat here. Posting a project to ProductHunt is unlikely to get it in front of your target demographic, but that doesn't mean it's worthless. People will download your app and if all goes well some of those people will leave you a positive review. That matters for ranking, which gets your app in front of people. If you get some good reviews, that matters for conversion because it lends some social credit.

kylebolt 5y ago
We also launched via paid ads (spent around 2k on Apple Ads and FB ads)

folli 5y ago

I guess it depends on the product. I just recently posted my newest side project there (an NFT minting webservice) and I even got a handful of paying clients. The conversation rate was quite high, and it has dropped significantly afterwards. So I guess if you want to reach a techie audience, it's not a bad place to get the word out. Edit: the website is https://Nuftu.com https://Nuftu.com, you can find it on producthunt by searching for the name