Earlier that day I launched on Product Hunt and I was planning to launch on Hacker News one week later. I have scheduled my post on Product Hunt sho

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2021-05-27 10:00:05

Earlier that day I launched on Product Hunt and I was planning to launch on Hacker News one week later. I have scheduled my post on Product Hunt shortly after midnight in San Francisco, what was around 9 am in the morning in France where I was based at the time. Two facts contributed to my decision to accelerate the launch on Hacker News on the same day.

I was constantly refreshing and keeping eye on the analytics anyway, and thought: "Let's do it", hoping that traction from Hacker News could help to get my Product Hunt post rank higher at the end of the day. BTW I eventually ended up earning “Featured” status on Product Hunt but did not make it to the TOP 10 of the day.

I've added the Product Hunt widget to the top of my site and created a post on Hacker News in the Show section - "Show Hacker News: I made Hacker News for automotive industry", linked it to my project autonews.io and clicked "post".

I was following advice from Pieter Levels' book for both Hacker News and Product Hunt launch. The advice was to get few - not too many - clicks within the first hour to make it to the front page and wait. I only had one other account registered on Hacker News and because I was too scared not to trigger some sort of scam detecting algorithm I decided not to create other accounts that I would use to upvote. In the end, I upvoted my post just one time and waited.

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