How to Get 700 Upvotes and 1,500+ Signups on Product Hunt
The author shared how they operated to get this data:
The strategy is very simple: get as many votes as possible within the first hour after launch, and then it grows naturally.
To achieve this:
1. Two months before launch, I started preparing users who could vote. Through various communities (no fewer than 20 in total) and groups, I found over 300 users willing to vote, mostly by sending one-on-one private messages.
2. I also contacted community admins to promote and pin our product launch announcement within their communities, but the effect is unknown.
3. I reached out to my social media contacts and got about 10-20 willing to vote.
In the hour before launch, I sent private messages to these people to prepare them to vote for me. I had prepared community posts beforehand. Thirty minutes before launch, I reviewed everything, copied and pasted it, and prepared to post synchronously across other community channels to attract votes.
This fully illustrates one thing: when you are seriously promoting your own product, you won't find it troublesome, and you won't consider promotion as something embarrassing — you will truly invest yourself and work hard to do it well.