We won Product of the Week - 5 tips so you can too!
Daniel Baum
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After an exhausting launch, Sleek Pay won Product of the Week!
How we did it - 5 tips:
1) Be active in PH months before launch, creating relationships with other hunters
2) Get involved in PH micro-communities. Find your people and support each other
3) Speak to / DM successful hunters on Twitter & LinkedIn for advice (but can't be annoying about it, be genuine & mutually helpful)
4) Online right at 12:01am PST. The first few hours are critical
5) Always have at least one person on the team responding to comments
Everyone will have their own strategy, but sharing a few pointers for the broader community!
THANK YOU to everyone who supported us! Really love the PH community, and can't wait to keep sharing Sleek Pay!
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Sven Radavics@sven_radavics
intribe | Tinder for Brand Partnerships
Product of the week is huge! Congrats!!
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@sven_radavics Thanks Sven! Couldn't do it without the PH community
Congrats! Sounds like a lot of work went into it, so well done.
Would also love to hear about how you found micro communities here on PH
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@racheej Thanks Rachee! I provided some more guidance on finding micro communities above on @julia_putzeys post. But it's still ongoing, never easy to find
Congrats! And thanks for being at the helm of community building here with setting up the support sheet. Love this community helping each other out.
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@brenna_donoghue Thanks Brenna! So happy to have met you :)
Pitchery
Thanks for sharing this Daniel and congratulations on product of the week!
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@swapdp_01 Thanks!
Life Tracker
Thanks for the helpful advice! Love that Product Hunt community is sharing and caring :)
Congrats bro!!
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@darwin_binesh Thanks man! Appreciate the support
AI Link Manager
Thanks Daniel. This is super helpful. We are planning our launch in the coming months. These pointers would definitely help us.
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@mjain_mayank My pleasure! Good luck on your launch!
Thank you for the tips, Daniel and congrats!
Could you share what was the most challenging for you and your team about launching?
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@shakhmetava_natallia Thanks! Trying to garner support on different time-zones can be difficult - I was online and ready at 2:30am! So try to connect with folks around the world beforehand to maximize the odds of support at all 24hrs of the day
Outdone
You forgot a big one — have a great product like Sleek Pay! There's no faking that part. 🤠
Thanks for the tips. I'll def apply these to our launch coming up later this year. Congrats on a great launch day and best of luck!
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@jonathan_nass Hahah thanks Jonathan! We're still in the early stages though, lots of room to improve... as I'm sure with all PH launched products! Please give Sleek Pay a try and share any feedback you have :)
Congrats on your success, @daniel_baum! I'm preparing for a V2 Launch of my product later this year and have been trying to engage with the PH community much more deliberately this time around! 🤝😁
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@hugh_lagrotteria Thanks Hugh! Good luck to you and @jonathan_nass
this was helpful, thanks
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@andrewcanday My pleasure!
LeadDelta professional relationships CRM
That's useful, thanks! :)
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@marko_rakic2 My pleasure
Thanks a lot!
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@jerryton_surya My pleasure!
AI TikTok Assistant
This time thing has to be very important. Heard it over and over :)
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@bernard_bado Ya it's pretty critical. Getting an early lead helps drive views and support
Thank you so much for sharing advice! So cool
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Upscale: The Sales Engagement Platform
Great inputs @daniel_baum! And CONGRATUALTIONS!!! 🚀
A few add-ons that I've come across while observing other launches:
- You can join the Telegram group of Invincible Hunters: https://t.me/ProductHuntGlobal & https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthH.... The Invincible Hunters have a WhatsApp group, and they're all amazingly awesome people!
- Monday to Thursday are the best days to launch. Tuesday & Wednesday are crowded most of the time.
- There's always a debate on whether to launch through a Hunter or not, but I've seen most of the successful launches by popular hunters.
- You can find other successful products on PH and reach out to those who actively engage.
- Always create your database BEFORE the launch and ensure you're not forcing anything. Ask for feedback and be prepared for just that. Keep all the commenters engaged, reach out to Upvoters and ask them to leave feedback (if they haven't already).
- For more context and starting a conversation around your product, you can make your existing users leave feedback on how your product has helped them (helping them) or make your team share why they are a part of building the product. Share stories!
I will create a detailed notion doc on launching on Product Hunt - pre-launch requisites, how to launch, and post-launch DOs & DON'Ts (share everything I have learned through observation/talking to other people). Please DM me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/writ... if you want me to share the doc.
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@richa_sharma07 Some great additional thoughts - thanks Richa!
@daniel_baum Congratulations! And thanks for sharing.
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@janet_granger Thanks for the support Janet!
Great to hear Dan and looking forward to Sleek Pay's growth and evolution!
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@adam_andrascik Thanks Adam! Really appreciate your support
Congrats @daniel_baum 👏 and thanks for the tips!
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Socialays: Social Media Guard
Thank you for the great tips!
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