Stuart, saasyDB
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Stuart, saasyDB
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Today, we’re releasing OpenClaw for outreach. We gave OpenClaw a LinkedIn account. It captured high-intent demand and converted it into 12 demos in 7 days. Salespeople: you’ll never have to worry about booking demos again.













Is Product Hunt dead? Well… kind of. But if you manage to reach the Top 3, you can still get something out of it. A few years ago, Product Hunt was huge. Getting #1 of the day or week could bring instant visibility and a wave of new customers. That era is mostly gone. Today, if you look at the leaderboard, you’ll often see big companies dominating the top spots. Claude, Gemini, Google, and other well-funded launches. And when a smaller startup does reach #1, it’s almost always backed by heavy marketing. Unless you already have a large audience or spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars pushing the launch, getting into the Top 3 is extremely difficult. The days when you could just launch a great product and organically reach #1 are mostly over. Still, we decided to try. We ended up #1 Product of the Day. Here’s what it actually took. Two weeks of preparation. Listing and contacting everyone we knew. Finding the right hunter. Preparing visuals, copy and launch assets. Then on launch day we activated everything we had. Email. Twitter. LinkedIn. DMs. Friends. Customers. Basically every distribution channel we could use. We finished #1 with about 400 upvotes. Now the real question is whether it was worth it. Here are the numbers. About 1,500 website visitors. 40 trials. 15 paid customers. Roughly $1,500 in new MRR. For two weeks of preparation, that’s honestly not great. Yes, we now have the “#1 Product of the Day” badge on the website. But realistically we could probably have generated the same revenue by working with one or two influencers. Another thing we noticed is that most of the traffic came from India. No disrespect at all, but historically US visitors convert and spend much more for B2B SaaS. So maybe we did something wrong. But we still finished #1, which means this was close to the best possible outcome that day. My honest conclusion is simple. Product Hunt has mostly become a branding play. Launch if you want the badge, if you already have a strong community, or if you want extra social proof. Otherwise, it’s probably not the best use of your time.









