p/don-t-hunt-me
Avoid getting hunted on Product Hunt
Marc-Antoine
Don't Hunt Me β€” Avoid getting hunted on Product Hunt
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Don't Hunt Me displays a popup on your website to let Hunters know you are not ready!

It detects users coming from Product Hunt and redirects them back after a few seconds.

And hopefully, the Product Hunt Team will not feature your product πŸ€—

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William
Nice implementation! Also a win-win since it lets everyone know that you intend to launch on PH anyway :) Maybe you could even add a field to be notified when the product is ready (link to PH Upcoming or other)
Marc-Antoine
@wimgz Thanks William! I thought about a subscription field but I think (hope) that not a lot of people will see the popup, since it would be quickly removed form the submission. But I could maybe make a small banner "Upcoming on PH" banner on the normal than would let people to subscribe to a newsletter or the PH upcoming page ?!
Marc-Antoine
Hi PH πŸ‘‹ This hunt is bit meta πŸ‘€ Makers build more and more theirs products in public, sharing progress on Twitter, on Maker Goals or Wip Chat. But they also increase the chances to be hunted prematurely! 😱 (and we know how important a PH launch is nowadays...) We discussed this problem on wip.chat yesterday after the product of a fellow maker was hunted too earlyπŸ˜• We thought of one potential solution : Display a message on your product to avoid being featured by PH team! So I built a small javascript that you can put in your landing page πŸ›  It detects users coming from Product Hunt and let them know your product is not ready. And if everything goes well, the Product Team would remove the submission.πŸ™ I hope this will help other makers keep control of their launch! A big thank you to the wip.chat community that comes up with the idea and helped me build this in less than a day. In no particular order :@jurn_w @wimgz @pugson @lbckr @bentossell @ndethore @deadcoder0904 @getaclue @levelsio @yesnoornext @rameerez @arminulrich @stephenfjohnson @lenilsonjr Thank you !
Adil

This is amazing tool for makers who want to test their idea a bit, and prepare it for a better launch. I was lucky enough to beta test this product and was really happy about it. Very nice nice

Pros:

Very easy to use

Cons:

Haven't encountered yet

wojtek
Awesome! I'll definitely use this the next time Product Hunt staff refuses to take down my product.
Matthias Gliwka

This easy to integrate js snippet helps creators to ensure that their product doesn't get featured prematurely on PH.

Hopefully this post sparks a discussion so we get this feature natively.

Pros:

Easy to integrate, adds a missing PH feature

Cons:

None yet

Roman Sevast
Why it's not a paid product?
Armin Ulrich
Excellent idea & product! awesome how quick you built & launched it πŸ™Œ
Adil
Great idea! Very nice!