Yesterday we launched on Product Hunt and finished #13.
Out of ~500 launches, that puts us in roughly the top 2 3%, which I m genuinely proud of especially with heavy hitters (even GitHub!) launching the same day and not taking the top spots.
One thing that surprised me (and honestly disappointed me a bit):
Product Hunt filters comments heavily. We had 60 100 people from our community friends, family, LinkedIn followers upvote and comment, but none of those comments showed up. Some even disappeared after I replied.
Not seeing that early feedback sucked, to be honest.
That said huge thank you to everyone who supported Votap yesterday. Your votes, messages, and DMs meant a lot
More tomorrow.

Just wanted to say a quick thank you to everyone who checked out Cue today.

I launched this morning not expecting much. It's a tool I built over the holidays that turned from a side project into the main project I'm working on. Seeing it hit #3 (so far) is honestly surreal.

As users, we all want to try a product before committing. As builders, we want to show real value without over-engineering and investing time 'just for show'. Finding that balance is harder than it looks.

I just shipped my demo for Rewo (https://rewo.app), and intentionally went with a live, real demo:

• Fully functional product (same codebase as prod)

• Uses demo data instead of real integrations

• Some interfacing + sync pieces are disabled

• Auto-resets on a schedule so anyone can jump in fresh

New AI models pop up every week. Some developer tools like @Cursor, @Zed, and @Kilo Code let you choose between different models, while more opinionated products like @Amp and @Tonkotsu default to 1 model.

Curious what the community recommends for coding tasks? Any preferences?

I believe that your chances of becoming visible on this platform also depend on how credible you appear.

In the past, there were even bots on Product Hunt, which led to the introduction of certain measures:

Hey everyone,

After a week of getting decent views but almost no downloads, I finally saw a new user pop up in my PostHog dashboard. I was ecstatic.

Then I watched the session log in real-time.

17:29: AppStarted
17:29: AppStarted
17:30: AppStarted

The Votap spaceship is taking off.
With a tiny ad budget
10 20 per day
we re now getting ~15 new users every day.
Repeat this another 100k times and we ve landed on the moon
Or scale it to 50 100 users a day and get there much faster
What matters is this:
the engine works
traction is real
now we keep fueling it
If you want to help us reach the moon, download here
https://votap.onelink.me/EdUW?pi...
Every install helps.
Next stop: orbit.
More tomorrow.

Hey everyone

Matt here, founder of Rewo. I love building tools I actually need for myself and it s even more exciting if they turn out useful for other indie devs.

I spend most of my time on these two things:
1) observing products on the main page and upvoting/commenting on them

2) talking with people within comments under my forums

The second one is the one where I notice some things that I lack and see possible improvements, namely: