Dylan M. we did a pretty good product hunt launch with our prev startup (#1 of the day & month, 2.9K upvotes)
What we did:
- 1.
Pick a good hunter (have audience etc)
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We have started building audience on X beforehand, so if you have users, X follower etc, tell them about the launch and ask for upvote & retweets on the day.
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Find ppl with audience from your users/followers to really hype it up, i don't remember the specifics but we made relationships with our top users before the launch and made sure they help hype it up
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Ask your best users to post a good review
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Apart from the launch itself > make sure the post, assets, etc is good,
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and also check/improve your onboarding flow to make sure ppl who sign up on that day can get to AHA moment fast. A lot of ppl just want to try, so without a great flow they probably wont stay around long enough to figure things out.
note: this was 2021. idk if this has changed.
I also hear another tactic of just keep on launching on PH without making it a big deal. Have not tried that. We were trying to get to the top for our PH launch.
Also, since you're shifting to focus on outbound on LinkedIn, I'm building a tool for LinkedIn outbound motion right now. Would love to chat!