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title: "I launched Webtrotion on Product Hunt"
slug: i-launched-webtrotion-on-product-hunt
canonical_url: https://nerdymomocat.github.io/posts/i-launched-webtrotion-on-product-hunt/
collection: Stream
published_at: 2024-07-08T00:00:00.000Z
updated_at: 2024-11-27T00:00:00.000Z
tags: 
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  - Webtrotion
excerpt: "I launched my passion project, Webtrotion (you're reading this post on a site hosted using it), on Product Hunt. To my surprise, it reached the top 15 with 100 upvotes."
author: "Nerdy Momo Cat"
---

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It was Sunday, and for the first time since November when I started working on Webtrotion , 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](https://x.com/ProductHuntHi/status/1639359153243299841)).

Look at those screenshots (on larger screens only)!

.responsive-product-hunt-webtrotion-launch-iframe { width: 500px; /\* Default width \*/ height: 405px; /\* Default height \*/ border: none; } @media (max-width: 768px) { .responsive-product-hunt-webtrotion-launch-iframe { width: 100%; /\* Full width on smaller screens \*/ height: auto; /\* Adjust height accordingly \*/ } } @media (max-width: 480px) { .responsive-product-hunt-webtrotion-launch-iframe { width: 300px; /\* Smaller width for very small screens \*/ height: auto; /\* Adjust height accordingly \*/ } }

For Webtrotion , 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](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/webtrotion), and I'm still in disbelief about how it happened. Some comments and reposts on my [Twitter post](https://x.com/nerdymomocat/status/1810208446450716952) 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 , 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 😊.

> Support me on product hunt!
> 
> [![Webtrotion - Notion-based configurable static website generator | Product Hunt](https://api.producthunt.com/widgets/embed-image/v1/featured.svg?post_id=469215&theme=neutral)](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/webtrotion?embed=true&utm_source=badge-featured&utm_medium=badge&utm_souce=badge-webtrotion)