It was Sunday, and for the first time since November when I started working on Webtrotion Show information for the linked content , I decided to run npm run format. This would ensure the code was properly formatted rather than the mess it had become after my extensive changes.
When I saw the beautifully formatted code, I thought, "What if I launch it on Product Hunt?" To be clear, this wasn't my ideal first launch on Product Hunt, the first time I had put much more effort in, but ended up not launching in the end (the failed launch tweet that I had to specifically ask for removal).
Look at those screenshots (on larger screens only)!
For Webtrotion Show information for the linked content , the entire process, from the idea of launching to actually doing it, took about four hours with effort ranging from 5 to 15 minutes. Incredibly, I woke up this afternoon to find myself in the top 15 for the day with 100 upvotes, and I'm still in disbelief about how it happened. Some comments and reposts on my Twitter post definitely helped.
It's astonishing how something I worked on for myself and decided to launch in a matter of 15 minutes, with hastily scraped together screenshots annotated using Shottr Show information for the linked content , ended up being such an amazing moment compared to a launch I had prepared and planned for. I guess one of the main differentiating factors is the freedom I felt. This was an open-source GitHub repo with no money to be made, no Lemonsqueezy link, and no tiers—just a passion project. It solidifies the one thing I know about myself: passion projects and figuring stuff out drive me more than money. Wanting something often cripples me, but because Webtrotion is a free-for-all niche project, I had nothing to lose and everything to gain. And I gained 😊.
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