Launching on Hacker News tomorrow... Any advice?

[UnitPrice.org]

Hello again! I think I’m finally ready to do a “Show HN” tomorrow and officially launch my website, unitprice.org! I’m sure many of you have already done that step, so I was wondering... Any last minute advice?

Thanks for the help!

 

[Adam]

Politely ask a few HN-using friends to check out your post as soon as you launch, the early traction is what really helps. Asking for upvotes is against their rules, but if you post the link here when you launch and some of us happen to have accounts and enjoy reading your post then... 😉

I'd try posting early morning pacific time so you've got the whole day if it makes it to front page. Webwide got there totally organically by some stroke of luck. It drove around 3000 clicks.

 

[James]

Good luck UnitPrice! @ Adam I didn't that thread got so much traction. Good got the future, Organic traffic is worth so so much more long term. Turns out paid traffic is virtually useless, unless it's Android. I love my iPhone but Apple are just far too strict. Scarily this means Android PPC traffic costs about 3x more. Sorry for the useless additional information which isn't that relevant.

 

[UnitPrice.org]

Thanks everybody! I just posted it, if you happen to stumble through there today... I went with the title “Price per unit analysis on Amazon listings”. Appreciate the advice!

 

[UnitPrice.org]

11 upvotes and zero comments so far...

 

[Adam]

#4 on the Show tab! Are you seeing many clicks?



The link for anybody here that would like to check it out:

Show HN: Price per unit analysis on Amazon listings | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

 

[Adam]

Have you done Product Hunt yet? That could be great for you! Best to prepare that one well with a video and animated icon and get a popular hunter to do it for you (so all their followers get an email notification).

Chris is the most popular Hunter and accepts applications to post yours: Hunt my product!

You can post yourself of course (and I’ve been featured twice doing it myself) but simply because I was impatient. 😋

 

[UnitPrice.org]

Have you done Product Hunt yet? That could be great for you! Best to prepare that one well with a video and animated icon and get a popular hunter to do it for you (so all their followers get an email notification).

Chris is the most popular Hunter and accepts applications to post yours: Hunt my product!

You can post yourself of course (and I’ve been featured twice doing it myself) but simply because I was impatient. 😋

I attempted to yesterday, but received exactly zero upvotes... Definitely had better luck with HN!

 

[Adam]

I think you need to have another go on Product Hunt! I don't think they'll mind you deleting and reposting if it was never featured or upvoted. Make sure you use the scheduler to schedule it at midnight PST so you get the whole day and again post here so we can join in early as possible. There's no reason that shouldn't get some good traction! It is way more useful than the loads of junk posted.