#2 on Product Hunt now (+ my launch checklist)

After months of development and acquiring 125,000 users, I finally launched volt.fm on Product Hunt today 🎉

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/voltfm

Actually, it was initially hunted by one of the users a little while after I announced it to the public. But at that early stage, I didn't feel it was ready for a Product Hunt launch, so I had to cancel it. Then, later in June, Chris Messina DM'd me and offered to hunt it. But again, I had to decline it as I still didn't think it was a good time to launch it on Product Hunt.

But now I finally feel it's time :)

How I prepared?
Before volt.fm, I had launched two products on Product Hunt (Pikaso and PostSheet), so this time I was a bit more prepared.

I started with the checklist that I had prepared for PostSheet. Then I read a few posts on launching on PH and added any missing items to my checklist. I also examined some successful launches to see what I could learn from them.

I then broke it into five sections based on the time that I had to do each task.

After that, I went through each item and prepared any material that was needed for ticking that item off when it was due. That included preparing all the emails, social media posts, images, etc.

My checklist
[days before the launch]

• prepare all the materials
• create stripe promo code

[right before the launch]

• record current stats
• enable ph banner

[after the launch]

• share on twitter
• pin tweet
• dm friends on twitter
• share on indie hackers
• share on reddit
• share on startup school
• share on telegram
• share on linkedin
• share on instagram
• send emails

[on the launch day]

• reply to comments
• share progress on twitter

[the day after the launch]

• share results
• congratulate the competitors
• add to related collections on product hunt

If you liked this post and you think that volt.fm is a cool product, I'd appreciate it if you could support my launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/voltfm

Thank you 🙏