Founder: our Product Hunt launch's only result was getting spammed by sales emails
jacob_posel · x · 2026-10-11
A startup founder shares a blunt post-mortem: their Product Hunt launch ended up delivering nothing but a flood of sales spam emails, with no meaningful growth to show for it.
It's a useful contrarian data point against the assumption that a Product Hunt launch is a reliable cold-start channel for indie makers and small teams.
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