5 Best Hacks to Boost your Product Hunt Launch (don't miss no. 1 hack)
Getting on top of Product Hunt is becoming difficult. Many great products launch on daily basis. Here are my best 5 hacks that will help you succeed on the launch day. These hacks are a part of my Product Hunt launch checklist and few are shared by Fabian - a nice growth hacker.
However, if we compare the total view during the day (by summing the view of each double post): the double post format is over-performing by far:
Posting twice within the day is getting 30% more views than posting only once.
Moreover, posting twice in the day allows you to play across time zones. With the dual post format, Fabian post the first time at 9:01 AM (Prague) right after the launch. It is the perfect time for my European contacts and helps him get initial traction on Product Hunt.
He then publishes a second post around 3 PM (Prague time) which corresponds to the morning on the US east coast.
He also found out that sharing a screenshot of the launch dashboard works well for the 2nd post of the day, as shown below:
He like to include surveys in the questions Iβm asking, but this hack will work well even without a survey.
He also usually reuse the same question to create a post on Indie Hackers and leverage his follower base there.
With this hack, he advise putting the time into thinking about your question. Questions like βWe are launching today!β are spammy. He recommends avoiding them.
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π Promote your Product Hunt launch on LinkedIn
LinkedIn wisdom usually recommends avoiding posting twice on the same day. The LinkedIn algorithm tends to lower the reach of your first post if you post a second time within the same day. According to Fabian's experiments, during his last 16th product hunt launches, he experimented with single posts vs. double posts format. The average reach of single posts is indeed higher:


π Post at exactly 12:01 AM PST
Product Hunt servers are located in the PST time zone (GMT-8), so the new day starts exactly at 12:00 am PST. To get the maximum exposure on Product Hunt, launch it at 12:01 am. This has multiple benefits. 1. Your product gets full 24h exposure. 2. It gets maximum exposure at the start of the day. This brings more upvotes and helps your product get into the top 5 products. 3. It gets exposure to the European audience as well. On the other hand, if you launch at 08:00 am PST (when the US is awake), getting into the Top 5 products is almost impossible unless you have a great product and support. P.S. You can also schedule the Product Hunt launch as well.π Ask a question on the day of the launch
Product hunt changed its notification system recently. The followers of a hunter wonβt get email notification when the hunter launch a new product. This is part of the push of Product hunt to encourage makers to hunt their own products. However, followers will still get an in-app notification on Product Hunt: There is still one way to send an email notification to your product hunt followers: ask a question. When you ask a question, most of your followers will receive an email notification about it. So on every launch, Fabian ask a question related to the product he is hunting and include a post-scriptum at the end mentioning that he is hunting a product today. Here is an example of his post when hunting Crawlee:
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