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How to earn 50+ points per day on Product Hunt?

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What are 'Points'? 🪙

Points on Product Hunt are also called Kitty Coins and are considered similar to Reddit's Karma. Depending on the points, you can receive gold🥇, silver🥈, or bronze🥉 medals, which are displayed next to the score on the profile. In our experience, we received a bronze medal when the score exceeded 100 points and a silver medal when it exceeded 500 points.
Experienced users say that all votes are not equal: votes from someone with higher points carries more value than those from somebody with less points. Since points increase based on Product Hunt activities, having a high score might give the impression of being more active and reputable.

However,

Product Hunt doesn't explicitly explain how to earn points:
"You can earn points by actively contributing across Product Hunt. Contributing includes: posting products, creating discussions, and engaging in conversations. You'll gain points when other community members upvote, cheer, or in any way appreciate your contribution."

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As we prepared for our Product Hunt launch, we were able to accumulate over 500 points, and I'll share tips on how we achieved this:

Here are the activities we do every day:

1️⃣ Try out new products at 12:01 AM PST every day and leave reviews and feedback comments.

Every day, you can see a list of new products launched that day on the main screen of Product Hunt.

2️⃣ Post discussions on topics that makers or PH community members can relate to.

Share any curiosities, difficulties, or experiences you've encountered in the process of building a product or improving an existing one. Sharing stories about topics that IT enthusiasts and makers would enjoy is an excellent choice.

3️⃣ Share my know-how and leave supportive comments in the new discussions.

Launching always involves trial-and-error! Sharing your experiences can be incredibly helpful to new makers. So, share your insights, and leave your comments on other posts in the community.
We increased cold email response rate by 30%!!💪 | Product Hunt
We recently saw the power of email marketing before we even officially launched our product! Introduced the product to 200+ potential customers → 29.4% replied. Replied back with our link and asked them to try it out → over 50% said yes. And some of them said they'd be our fans and sent us heartfelt reviews! There were three main points we focused on when sending the emails 1️⃣ Personalized message 🙆‍♂️ We wrote two parts of the email, one for everybody and one for each individual. We believe that in order to win the hearts and minds of our audience, it's essential to express our interest in them. → For example, how are their projects going, what did we like about their recent content, etc. 2️⃣ History management 📝 We kept a detailed record of everyone and checked it every time. - Key activity spaces: social media, personal websites, etc. - Problems we think we can help solve - The content of the emails we sent, etc. 3️⃣ Close, ongoing communication ❤️‍🔥 We wrote as if we were having a human-to-human conversation, not a business one. We always made sure to thank and support them, and we made sure to reply, even if it was a little late. Obviously, different situations call for different approaches, but I felt that this worked well for us in the early stages of the product. Let me know what you think and if you have any other tips! --- Our team is preparing for launch and I'm planning to post tips we've gained every day. You can see all the tips on the page below! https://slashpage.com/ph-launch-tips/k5r398nmn496mvwje7yz And if you liked the page above, please check out our teaser! It's for the product we will soon be launching.👇 https://www.producthunt.com/products/slashpage
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The important thing is to express sincere support, give advice based on experience, and write questions that you've thought about at least twice. One upvote may not precisely be one point, but it seems to be beneficial!
Do you have any other tips you know? Share them in the comments!
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