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I Launched on Product Hunt, Got Zero Votes, and Did It Again Seven Weeks Later

DEV Community·SHOTA·about 1 month ago
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I launched Procshot on Product Hunt on a Friday. March 6th. It got zero votes. Not "a few votes and then stalled." Zero. The product sat on the new submissions page for about three hours and then disappeared. No comments except the one I left as the maker. I closed my laptop and went for a walk. I took it personally for about a day. Then I treated it as data. What I didn't do I didn't change the price. I didn't run a rebrand. I didn't move on to the next idea. Procshot is a Chrome extension that records your browser workflow and auto-generates a step-by-step guide — screenshots, descriptions, export to PDF/Markdown/HTML. The core idea was sound. The execution in March was not. The 0-vote result was telling me something specific: the product was rough in ways that would have made anyone who clicked "install" bounce off within two minutes. That's fixable. So I fixed it. What actually changed in seven weeks 1. Onboarding rebuilt from scratch. The original Procshot dropped you into an empty popup.…

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