You Must Build a Boat launched on Product Hunt on June 4th, 2015 and earned 115 upvotes and 30 comments, placing #33 on the daily leaderboard.
On the analytics side, You Must Build a Boat competes within Games — topics that collectively have 98.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how You Must Build a Boat performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted You Must Build a Boat?
You Must Build a Boat was hunted by Eric Metelka. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Eric Metelka