Small Product Hunt growth hack

I've now launched three products on Product Hunt. One was successful, one was mediocre, and one was a failure.

Each time I've exhausted my network telling them about the launch and that if they like the product they should go like it.

The last time round I did something which worked pretty well.... set my email on OOO with the subject line "Might be slow to respond because..." and the core of the email was a link to our product hunt page.

It worked really well! A lot of people who emailed me got the OOO email and then replied to that saying "duly upvoted :)"