Route Voters to the PH Homepage, Not Your Launch Page
Route Voters to the PH Homepage, Not Your Launch Page is a launches & ph/hn tactic for getting your first users: A hindsight fix: instead of linking supporters straight to the launch page (which PH down-weights as gamed), send them to the Product Hunt homepage so they navigate to your post themselves, making each upvote count more.
It's a strong fit for teams of almost any kind, and works especially well for Anyone optimizing a Product Hunt rank. As a launches & ph/hn play, plan for low effort and expect results to cluster around your launch, all grounded in 1 linked primary source.
- Channel: Launches & PH/HN
- Best for: Anyone optimizing a Product Hunt rank
- Effort: Low
- Speed: Launch
- Sources: 1 linked primary source(s)
Why does launches & ph/hn work for this?
PH assigns less ranking value to upvotes from people who land directly on a launch URL; organic-looking navigation preserves vote weight and avoids deranking.
The exact steps (4)
The full step-by-step this founder ran, what they posted, where, and in what order, plus the watch-outs, is part of the library.
Sources
- Source — IndieHackers · indiehackers.com