... This story is published in the Product Hunt Weekly Newsletter. If you'd like to read more stories like this, subscribe here . Three tactics you can use to reach your audience drawn by building @Square brand from beta to IPO, finding stories in deep tech at Facebook, and advising 3,000+ YC startups In 2010, I became the first comms hire at Square. We went public five years later. In 2018, I helped @Facebook reach

... product in closed beta, we did surprisingly well in our debut on Product Hunt. I ve already written about our full launch-day tactics (see previous forum post ), but some founders reached out asking: What specifically worked for Product Hunt? Here are the 5 biggest things I will repeat as we plan a future open beta launch. I hope it helps you too! Start Launch Planning Early Start months before launch. I spent time connecting with other founders and regularly ... ... rules about what you can and can t post - but that s part of the fun of learning the ropes in any new community. Spot & connect with adjacent products. Whenever I saw similar or complementary tools, I d reach

... would you find these promising talents? I know that most often people go through: LinkedIn Find a co-founder by YC Or they match on the internet (Reddit) I also liked the approach of one guy who started reaching out to graduates who had done their thesis on a given topic. Comment from Anastasiia Breiterman(@aabreyterman): @busmark_w_nika  very fast actually, i think around 1-2 weeks (considering talking to different people who contacted us there). I think ... ... formats that are more aimed at younger generations, which makes them a little bit infantile compared to their past positioning. Comment from Prime(@prime_a): @borja_diazroig  This is absolutely on point, did same thing not too long, reached

... also have one or two that were remarkable. Feel free to share them. Comment from Aleksandar Blazhev(@byalexai): @busmark_w_nika   @borja_diazroig  tell them you're launching on Saturday and their upvote is important. Try to reach out close friends. Comment from Aleksandar Blazhev(@byalexai): @busmark_w_nika  it's on all platforms, not only on Linkedin. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @purvamjoshi  Brave step exactly! :) This is something I would do very hesitantly ... ... because they have strong communities. But some influential guest could help I suppose :) Comment from Purvam Joshi(@purvamjoshi): we launched on product hunt today! and one thing i did is... i followed all the launches for 7 days, and reached

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... months ago, I was just another self-taught developer frustrated with YouTube learning. Now I'm about to launch Notetube to the Product Hunt community. The butterflies are real! This launch could be a game-changer for reaching the millions of people who struggle with the same YouTube learning problems I faced. If you've ever: Forgotten everything from a YouTube tutorial within days Had your learning scattered across random playlists Got stuck with no one to ask for help ... ... Then you know exactly why Notetube exists. I'm asking for one small favor: Hit "Notify Me" on my  coming soon page so you don't miss my launch. Your support could help me reach

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... Slack communities and I think that they are more private. But if any of you have a list and want to prove I am wrong, feel free :D Comment from Charu Chaturvedi(@charuchaturvedi): @franklivania  It's more about reaching out to people for feedback rather than just upvotes. Not only does it increase engagement, it also gets you some valuable feedback from someone outside the team! Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @delia_wu  Do you have ... ... engage with them? This is a huge problem for me, and I'll need to master it. For one, I've built a product, which I think is great, but... I don't have an idea how to reach

... launched TokPortal, a platform that lets you conquer foreign audiences on TikTok remotely ( USA, UK, Canada ). Reaching foreign markets organically on TikTok (especially the U.S.) used to be a nightmare. The available solutions were either unstable (VPNs often detected by TikTok, leading to shadowbans) or downright absurd (mobile proxies giving access to one device for $100+/month). Even ditching organic for Ads doesn t solve the issue: non-US businesses can t natively target the U.S. on TikTok Ads unless ... ... there was no scalable solution to distribute content locally. Now with TokPortal, you can easily create real TikTok accounts and remotely manage uploads, distributing your content exactly where your business needs it, in the right niche. Want to reach

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... from lesson planning, so it's been hard to gauge interest. On the other hand, I've felt some pull from the B2B side that I haven't really felt from teachers (I've had a few small business reach out who were interested in the tool. Pretty different from me always reaching

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... project for a lot of money and doesn't know what to do with his life. Is it really good to succeed as a young person? Because if I look at it from a different perspective: When you reach the top at a young age, what's next? Comment from Gin Tse(@jean_xavier): The entrepreneur friends I know have always had a strong determination to change the world's rules. For people with this trait, early success ... ... through editorial coverage) :D For me, success is, someone winning at life and work with integrity, meaning, simplicity and freedom of choice. Anyone who can achieve this in a young age, I am impressed of them. :) When you reach

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... Shape the technical specs Co-create the pre-qual for the RFP And spent months deeply involved in the RFP process By all traditional markers, we were in a strong position. Then we lost the deal. Not because the competitor had a better solution. We were told the deciding factor was price. But over time, we learned it wasn t that simple. We had been single-threading our engagement relying on one champion to carry us through. We never mapped ... ... stakeholder ecosystem. No line into procurement No dialogue with the business transformation team No understanding of who the executive sponsor was someone who wasn t even based in the regional HQ where we had embedded ourselves No visibility into competitor

... assume I'm not the only one dealing with this problem, so I'll seek advice from those more experienced and perhaps those who have a proven track record. Whenever a user reaches the payment gateway, they often suddenly leave, either by uninstalling the app or closing the page. How can users be guided through the payment method, and when should the paywall be applied? What are the best practices? Personally, I do not like to put my card details ... ... trials because I have had bad experiences, e.g.: wasn't announced by email that the trial ends, couldn't unplug manually my payment option, couldn't reach

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... tweets hit thousands of views and get zero users. But when we DM someone with a clear pain point, they sign up in 10 minutes. That s when it clicked: Marketing isn t about reach it s about resonance. So we ve started shifting our approach: Listen more than we talk steal your users words and use them back in your copy. Lead with real-life use cases not vague benefits, but actual before-and-after moments. Get close cold ... ... early calls, even rough demos. Hand-to-hand discovery > mass reach

... drowning in dashboards. Impressions, click-throughs, followers, reach, saves, shares but not all things are equal. Telling, is there a metric you're meant to be keen on, yet in actuality, you're not? Maybe you: Don't care about likes but are ridiculously fixated on replies Track shares but never take the time to check reach