{"id":43,"date":"2023-11-24T04:37:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T04:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2024-08-19T04:32:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T04:32:01","slug":"building-a-product-hunt-clone-heres-what-you-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/building-a-product-hunt-clone-heres-what-you-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Product Hunt Clone? Here&#8217;s what you should know."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.producthunt.com\/\">Product Hunt<\/a> is arguably the biggest place to launch a startup, SaaS, mobile app or project. And for that reason it&#8217;s very competitive to get a high ranking, or even get noticed on Product Hunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re thinking of building a Product Hunt clone, here&#8217;s a few things you should consider;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You SHOULD NOT be charging money for companies to submit &#8211; if you have a waiting list and want to charge to expedite that&#8217;s fair trade, but charging before you&#8217;ve even launched looks ridiculous. Product Hunt doesn&#8217;t charge, how can anyone justify paying for your service. Don&#8217;t be this site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextool.me\/\">Nextool<\/a>, which hasn&#8217;t even launched yet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You SHOULD establish a social media presence on every platform available; Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Threads, whatever platform that is available.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You SHOULD be cross promoting the products being submitted &#8211; when you use social media to announce a product launching, that product should be sharing their launch on their own social media, which in turn helps give your site exposure. It&#8217;s a no brainer to increase traffic to your own site.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You SHOULD make your web traffic public &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/makerpeak.com\/\">Maker Peak<\/a> made their traffic public <a href=\"https:\/\/makerpeak.pirsch.io\/\">here<\/a>. You should be too.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You SHOULD have a blog to give updates on how often you are launching new sites.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You SHOULD NOT reject submissions without an explanation &#8211; if you think a product is not appropriate for your site, that&#8217;s fin but for goodness sakes tell the companies that are submitting for consideration why you are not posting their company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s room for competition in the launch game, but since you&#8217;re not the lead dog you&#8217;re going to have to put in a lot of effort to get noticed. Good luck with whatever you&#8217;re building, and reach out to us so we can add you to the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpointzero.com\">Launch Point Zero directory<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Product Hunt is arguably the biggest place to launch a startup, SaaS, mobile app or project. And for that reason it&#8217;s very competitive to get a high ranking, or even get noticed on Product Hunt. If you&#8217;re thinking of building a Product Hunt clone, here&#8217;s a few things you should consider; There&#8217;s room for competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-launching","category-product-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.launchpointzero.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}