So I've been working on ScreenshotAPI.net for the past year, and I just launched it on ProductHunt 🚀
I went all out: I created a video, wrote an introduction message, and messaged all the users of my product.
Right now I don't know what else to do though. Any tips on how to make the launch a success would be greatly appreciated!
There is a fair bit of luck involved getting anywhere with producthunt.
I would recommend you put the producthunt embed on a more visible spot (at least for today), and it might be too late but having an animated icon is super useful.
Your product looks pretty good btw, I haven't seen many screenshot services that correctly deal with lazy loaded images / cookie banners. How do you identify the cookie banners?
For PH launch I usually keep my expectations very low.
Unless your product is really innovative, sometimes it's a popularity contest. I've had one "good" launch, but poor results on most of others.
And besides, unless PH drives users and paying customers to your product, it's not worth trying to win the PH game. The aim is money in the bank (or if a pet project, active users), not upvotes on PH.
I have upvoted your product and will try it out :)
In my opinion the product hunt post looks really good, no comment about that.
I've never launched something myself, but as a long-time lurker here I think that it also comes down to a little bit of luck
Hey Dirk, I wrote an article about the learnings of our launch. Maybe it is helpful for you?
https://blog.typestudio.co/product-hunt-learnings/
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