The Formerly Secret Way to Meet a Product Hunter & How One Tweet Can Give $100+ to Charity
Lots of founders wonder how they can get their product on Product Hunt. For those who know the basics, the question is how to find a Hunter with instant posting access. I was lucky to stumble upon a couple of them; here is how it happened.
Startup Weekend -> Blab -> Hunted
When Creddon started at Startup Weekend East Bay, one of the mentors was Furqan Rydhan, CTO of Blab. At the time, Blab had just been conceived and Furqan invited me to check it out. I enjoyed the friendly atmosphere and sense of community. Today I think it is cool to have been one of the first Blabbers!
A couple of weeks went by and I noticed Jonas Daniels and Kiki Schirr were often blabbing and seemed like nice people. Then I assembled courage to ask if I could join the talk to get some feedback on Creddon.
In addition to feedback, I also got Hunted, because Jonas & Kiki liked Creddon. Furqan had actually offered to post Creddon too, so I had the luxury of choosing and with Kiki being the more active one, e.g. named among the Top-30 Hunters and having written The Product Hunt Manual, I went with her after asking Furqan.
No Longer a Secret
Since October 19, Blab is powering Product Hunt’s Live video AMAs, so my formerly secret hack is now pretty public, but probably just as powerful. Only remember to be polite, respect the Hunters (don’t be like this) and, first of all, make something good.
We Made It to the 100-Upvotes Club
Creddon was posted on Product Hunt on Oct. 13 by Kiki, who got up at 4.30 AM Eastern Time just to post us 💖.
We finished in 12/13th place (one product was later removed) out of ~30 . We hovered around 5th place until 7 AM, after which a few of the frontrunners entered the race. In terms of upvotes, we had 129 at midnight (and 145 now) 🙌.
Slacktivism Can Be Powerful
About $200 had been raised for charity through tweets and retweets by midnight. The, a charity account related to the Indian actor Vijay tweeted in support of rebuilding Nepal, and eventually received 63 retweets.
@VijayFanCharity also asked its followers to check out Creddon and we can see that we got ten new users thanks to this. Those ten users have, to date, made 13 own tweets and received 31 retweets. The ripple effect may extend further, but we are already excited that one user could generate 1 + 63 + 13 + 31 = $108 to charity, simply by making a couple of tweets!
New Features & B2B-Offering
We have added Facebook sharing as a new channel and the option to choose between a few photos for each charity when making a tweet/post.
We are also thinking about more B2B-focused applications of the Creddon concept. Imagine a company would include in its newsletter to existing customers something along these lines: “We want to hear what you think about our [service/product]. Knowing that your time is precious, if you go here and tweet your thoughts about it, we will donate $XX to [this charity/a charity of your choice].”
Everyone knows word of mouth is powerful and maybe your customers just need a little nudge to tell the world about you? Please let us know if you think it could be valuable with a service that made it easy to run and leverage that kind of charitable campaign.
Thank you,
Fredrik & Melinda
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