... thumb you ve used (e.g., % of Teaser followers who visit, comment to upvote ratios, or targets you set for the first 4 hours)? 2. Keeping support authentic (not flagged as spam) We have ~1k DAU in a global community who love the product, but many are new to PH. What best practices helped your community

... Bluesky is implementing comprehensive updates to its policies and community guidelines , driven by global regulations and user feedback, with a focus on improving user safety, clarity, and community

... Product Hunt I m building Empyr a powerful, autonomous AI agent designed to work for you, not the other way around. Forget AI assistants that limit you. Empire is community-powered and built to adapt. Unlike ChatGPT or Gemini, this isn t just a chatbox it s your digital commander, equipped with powerful tools. Why community

... added the ability to post directly to X Communities. Now you can easily share with specific groups of people. Just browse your recent communities

... regularly contributing to discussions here on Product Hunt. It s not like LinkedIn - there are specific rules about what you can and can t post - but that s part of the fun of learning the ropes in any new community. Spot & connect with adjacent products. Whenever I saw similar or complementary tools, I d reach out and invite them to be notified about our launch. There's a LOT of cool products on here, we're already talking about ... ... First) We were highly active in relevant subreddits before, during, and after launch. Focused on contributing insights - never just dropping links. In fact, if you drop a link, it'll likely get moderated so make sure to read the community

... surprise OpenAI bill last month and needed team-wide visibility Both found us through word-of-mouth and PH, which validates that this pain point is REAL for people actually building with AI tools daily. What's Working vs. What's Not The good: Organic discovery is happening. People who find the tool immediately get it. The challenge: Reaching the right audience at scale. Most AI cost management conversations happen in scattered communities

... advance do you prepare your launch on Product Hunt? In this case, I would like to share with you, but also listen to you in a brainstorming session: What activities do you use to activate the community and potential upvoters for your upcoming launch? I would start with the most basic ones. The "Notify me" page DM existing Product Hunt users on social media make sure they are available on the weekend (write in advance and on launch ... ... between your speech Increased activity on Product Hunt and in private group chats/communities (e.g. WA, Discord, Slack) Reminder email sequences. I would be happy if you could share other tactics that have worked for you in activating the community

... Product Hunt community! I'm Shashwat, and I just finished a deep analysis that revealed something concerning about how startups approach growth. What I do: I audit GTM strategies for early-stage startups to Series C companies. After seeing too many promising products fail to gain traction despite solid teams and funding, I started systematically analyzing what's actually working. My recent discovery: 60% of startups are burning money on GTM strategies designed for predictable markets that no longer exist ... ... misaligned approaches 82% of "successful" strategies came from traditional sales effort not ecosystem plays But here's the hope: The successful 28% were doing something completely different: Building strategic partnerships over solo efforts Product-led growth with frictionless experiences Community

... episode, we invited industry leaders to speak about the latest trends in the industry. These podcasts helped us establish authority, helped us gain reach (through network effect) and also got us several leads from top companies. Building a Niche Community : This one is my favorite. We launched a forum - and answered EVERY question in the niche. It took us about 4 months to do so; but the results were massive. We went from 0 -> 6K visitors per month ... ... first 7 months and the grown compounded every month. This got us visitors on autopilot and the feedback from them helped us shape our roadmap and discover real pain points. In fact, I was so impressed by the community

... Been building something behind the scenes that I m really proud of: our Community Contribution Program. It s focused on 3 key areas: Active presence in Telegram Creative use of Vertical Stream Supporting our raids and outreach This isn t just about rewards, it s about building a system that truly reflects the people behind Vertical. The ones who create, help out, support, and keep the vibe strong every single day. The contribution program is just the start ... ... also shifting from weekly games to full-on community

... sure anyone would notice our little startup, and honestly, I felt intimidated. Everyone seemed so established, and I didn t know where I fit in. But then something incredible happened. A kind comment from @aaronoleary . Encouragement from the PH community. Support from the Product Hunt team when we ran into issues. A hunt from @benln . A thoughtful reply from @rajiv_ayyangar himself. That first launch became Product of the Day. We were later nominated for Product of the Year ... ... named Community

... high-level recap of our Product of the Month launch - and you had so many questions that we went back to document every tactic in full. Today, here s the in-depth playbook : the exact strategies, experiments, and community-powered tests that took Chronicle to #1 on Product Hunt and over 1,000 upvotes within 24 hours. 1. The Spark: one tweet On June 6, Andrej Karpathy casually spoke about Cursor for Slides. Within minutes: Homepage copy was updated everywhere ... ... replies, retweets and DMs to harvest the language your audience actually uses. 2. Rapid-fire experiments We never waited for launch day. Instead, we treated our entire buildup as a real-time lab: Email CTA swaps ( Try Chronicle Pro vs

... Context: Building an open source Agentic AI Framework, so engaging with dev community is important. Curious how others are approaching it. Here's what I ve tried so far: Dev.to I published 7 blogs, including tech tutorials, list-style posts, and one job description. Grew from 0 to 500+ followers in one months. But the more practical, code-based content barely reached 50 reads. I will try lighter content next. Hashnode Posted 3 blogs. Total views: under ... ... like me. Hacker News I ve tried posting some of the content on HN. Got one post passed through and had some traffic to the website. Obviously, I'm still figuring out what actually works. How are you building community

... been managing an international community across social media and platforms for over 3 years. The more active and visible I am, the more people reach out to me. It s a great feeling to connect, but sometimes it leads to complicated situations that are uncomfortable to deal with. So I decided to write down some lessons and real-life examples I ve come across. Here s what NOT to do! 1. Saying yes to every opportunity Whether ... ... scam basically a data-harvesting machine. That made me even more suspicious and cautious about companies. TL;DR: Be kind, but set boundaries. Do you have your own learnings while building your either personal or professional/business community

... Family, After spending 20 years building large communities from scratch and using most of the leading community

... Over 75,000 Instagram profiles collected How did we prepare? Teaser Page We launched a teaser page 2 weeks early to build momentum. This was key to getting our first wave of interest and creating early engagement with our community. Pro Tip: This is something we could've prepared even earlier; it's more important for the page to exist than for the date to be accurate. Product Graphics We spent over 20 hours crafting the visual storyline to reflected ... ... massively important seeing all the support and engagement we got. Details really matter when the goal is to show that value in the first 3-5 seconds. Engage We had the whole team active in the PH community

... everyone I m Aliyu Jibrin, I help Web2/Web3 and crypto projects build and manage highly engaged communities, especially on Discord. Over the past few years, I ve worked with a variety of projects (DeFi, NFTs, gaming, etc.) across different chains to: Set up custom Discord servers Optimize for onboarding, engagement & retention Handle daily moderation and community

... Community Friends! With so many AI-driven tools reshaping how communities

... this time, I do not mean social media but something like an enclosed community for the core (top-tier customers). On Friday, I had a call with a marketing manager at @Crisp and he mentioned this thing. I know there are more companies that are trying to create more personal connections with paying clients and network among themselves. I love community

... community, I'm in the middle of a journey that's both terrifying and exhilarating, and I could really use the wisdom of this group. For the past few years, my team and I were building an AI platform for vocational schools. The tech was solid, but the business model was a slow death endless sales cycles and zero direct feedback from the actual users (the teachers). Our cash was running out. Instead of giving up, we decided to pivot ... ... engaging videos. We're building an AI agent platform (called X-Pilot) that acts as your personal production team. Now, we're about a month away from launching here on Product Hunt. My biggest challenge is building an initial community

... built a community platform after years of frustration with existing tools. Growth has been strong, but churn is now a real concern. I'd love your thoughts. Here's the problem : Customers subscribe, setup their communities

... SushiSwap isn t just another decentralized exchange (DEX) it s a fully-fledged DeFi platform built by the community, for the community

... Mozart AI , a music creation software (DAW) with baked in AI Co-Production. Think Cursor for Music Production . One of the things we are trying to do before we launch here is to create a waitlist and a Discord community . The purpose of this community

... Problem "Building in public" is broken. We re posting into the void - no structure, no momentum, no real collab. Twitter s loud, Reddit s messy, Discord s buried. Even in communities, we re still building alone. Solution A kanban-style social network for builders. Like Notion Reddit Trello - where tasks are posts, progress is public, and collaboration is real. How it Works Boards = public workspaces (e.g. AI Tools Weekend Sprint ) Tasks move: TO-DO DOING DONE Threaded feedback, code, designs ... ... encouragement Join boards solo or as a team Track your progress, support others, work in public Creator-powered collabs Tasks can offer rewards: $$$, promo, tools Host community

... coapp. We ll be launching @coapp soon right here on PH, and I m excited to connect with you ahead of the launch. Over the past years, I ve founded and built several companies at the intersection of community, technology, and new ways of working. From an innovation hub that became a thriving ecosystem for collaboration, to coapp a platform designed for one purpose: To help people organise, communicate, and collaborate in ways that strengthen relationships and create measurable impact ... ... many of the tools we use feel like they create more noise than real connection? And why do we spend so much time and energy on platforms we don t own, just to maintain our own communities