The best day to launch on Product Hunt is the day your team is most prepared for and can be fully present, according to Product Hunt's own launch guide. No weekday guarantees a top spot, and Product Hunt publishes no numbers by weekday or hour, so a guide that names a winning day is guessing.
What Product Hunt does fix is the clock. Every launch runs for one full day on Pacific Time, so outside the US West Coast your launch day spans two dates.
How to read your launch day
Pick a date and your time zone above. The planner shows when the day starts and ends on your own clock, with daylight saving already counted for that date. It also says whether Product Hunt will take the date yet, and if not, the day you can book it.
Try two or three dates. If the start falls in your night, someone on the team has to be answering comments then.
Weekday or weekend
Product Hunt names one trade-off. Weekdays usually bring more traffic and more competition. Weekends are quieter on both, which it says can suit smaller teams and side projects.
Our reading adds one thing. If you sell to people at work, a weekend launch reaches them when they are not working, and we would weigh that above any weekday advice.
The Product Hunt team hand-picks which launches it features, and its guide ties that to no weekday.
What to do next
Save a draft now and book the date once Product Hunt opens it. You can still move it.
Put the day in your team's calendar with a name against every block of hours, overnight included.
Tell your users the date ahead of time and ask them to try the product.
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