Start-up Launch Power: Product Hunt vs. Hacker News vs. TechCrunch

https://batch.com/blog/start-up-launch-power-product-hunt-hacker-news-techcrunch/

by alexeichemenda • 12 years ago

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minimaxir3• 12 years ago

Did you really ask your readers to share this article twice in the same article?!

SimonDawlat3• 12 years ago

So you're not just a "sarcastic tech blog commentator", but also a harsh blog post commentator :) But you're right. Removed it. Thx for reading til the end.

minimaxir3• 12 years ago

That wasn't a harsh comment.

What is a harsh comment (and an annoying trend among all the "I got on Product Hunt: look at me!" posts) is that you encourage vote cheating ("It is perfectly fine, however, to promote your Product Hunt page on your groups, forums, internal communications, etc. Introduce your community to the featuring on ProductHunt, but don’t encourage them to vote one way or another.") because it isn't explicitly against the rules, but you don't realize why that's a bad and unethical thing to do.

alain94040• 12 years ago

It's impressive how much less influential TechCrunch has become. To me, it's pretty clear that the main reason is the sheer number of articles they publish every day. Even if the overall audience is very large, the audience for each article isn't so high. On the plus side, the people who read articles self-select and are by definition interested in the topic, so the conversion rate in the end is higher. Bottom line: with TC, you reach a wide audience and extract the few that are relevant to your product.

Let's just say that 6 years ago when I launched on TC, the traffic numbers were much higher.

alexeichemenda3• 12 years ago

You're absolutely right. It's interesting to see that more and more journalists focus on number of clics / views, vs actual engagement. I guess short term metrics like clics / views are one way to go, but definitely not a good one for journalism on the long term.

jsnell• 12 years ago

[HN] ... get some friends to upvote the link early on, but don’t be tempted to try and game the voting system.

I'm puzzled by the idea that setting up an ad hoc voting ring (apparently with careful planning, as per the description on how to maximize the quality of the fraudulent clicks) is somehow not gaming the system.

Start-up Launch Power: Product Hunt vs. Hacker News vs. TechCrunch

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