[ohstopitu]

I'm not sure if someone has mentioned this but not everyone on product hunt is created equal.

More than 80% of the stuff you see on product hunt (on it's home page) is directly placed there by influencers (that have bypassed upvotes and comments to get there).

So if you are a creator and submit your product to product hunt, you are severely disadvantaged - it's much better if either (form best to worst case):

1. You know an influencer and he/she submits it to the featured list.

2. An influencer organically submits it to the featured list.

3. An submitter (who's not related to you) submits it.

4. You submit it (either by emailing them about it, or by submitting it yourself).

I'm actually working on a side project that would make Product Hunt a lot more transparent (who are core influencers, which product types succeed, etc.)

[tag2]

We were 'Hunted' for our App (Hucnhapp) on PH this weekend. We were also hunted a few months ago for our iOS Framework (Redbeard). Both times it was by an influencer that was able to get it featured onto the homepage. Even though we were featured on a weekend both times it still led to thousands of visitors to our site (Approximately 7K in the case of Redbeard). Apparently weekdays leads to an order of magnitude greater. It really can be a great way to seed early traction. Getting featured can also mean you're picked up by various other blogs and publications as it does lend some credibility with the tech blogs. If you're looking to reach out to some influencers here's a great site that ranks them: https://www.yvoschaap.com/producthunt/

[taytus]

Thank you for the detailed explanation. Would love to test your product whenever is ready.

[mahyarm]

Sounds like digg.