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Connect Product Hunt and use the launch-day requests list

FoxPlug can read your own Product Hunt launch and sort its comments into requests and bugs, so you can ship fixes on launch day and answer people. It reads only your launch, only when you press a button.

Where to find it: Settings, then Publishing & integrations; the list is on Today Open it in FoxPlug

Steps

1. Go to Settings, then Publishing & integrations, and open the Product Hunt connector. (Or search for it with the box at the top of Settings.)
2. Open producthunt.com/v2/oauth/applications and click Add an application. Name it FoxPlug.
3. Product Hunt asks for a Redirect URI. Fill it in even though FoxPlug does not use it; your own website address is fine.
4. Create the application, scroll down to Create Token (the developer token) and copy it.
5. Back in FoxPlug, paste the token in the first box and press Connect. The second box, the launch page, is optional: leave it empty if you have not scheduled your launch yet, because the page only exists once you do. FoxPlug checks the token and shows Connected, with your Product Hunt name.
6. When your launch is scheduled, open the Product Hunt card again (Settings, Publishing & integrations, Product Hunt), paste the address of your launch page, like https://www.producthunt.com/posts/your-product, copied from the address bar of your launch, and press Add launch page. You do not paste the token again. If the address is wrong, FoxPlug says so and does not keep it.
7. Go to Today. The Launch-day requests section appears once Product Hunt is connected. Press Check launch comments to read your launch (this needs the launch page added).
8. Each request or bug shows the comment, who wrote it, its upvotes, and a short code. Press We will ship this today, or Hide. Questions and thanks wait in a closed list called Questions and thanks.

Good to know

• Without a launch page FoxPlug only checks that Product Hunt accepts your token and reads your own Product Hunt name. It reads no launch and no comments until you add the launch page.
• When you ship the change, put the request's code in the commit message or changelog line. Press Match what I shipped and FoxPlug finds it and drafts a reply for you. Or choose the change yourself from Pick what you shipped and press This one answers it.
• Press Copy reply (or Copy X / LinkedIn post) and post it yourself on Product Hunt.
• It reads at most once every 10 minutes and at most 6 times a day, except on your launch day and the 24 hours after it, when only the 10 minute gap applies.
• It reads the first 50 comments. Your own replies are left out.
• The numbers also feed your Today brief: a nudge to reply to new comments, to thank people once you pass a set number of upvotes, and to post while the launch climbs. This is only for a launch from the last 7 days.
• The developer token does not expire. If you lose it, read it again from your application on Product Hunt.
• Everything is marked Source: Product Hunt and is shown to you only.

What it does not do

• It does not post, reply or write anything on Product Hunt. You copy the reply and post it yourself.
• It does not read anyone else's launch, a leaderboard or a list of voters.
• It does not publish, share or export the comments or the @handles. They stay in your private list.
• It does not turn the numbers into a public milestone, post or page.

Related

• Plan a launch
• The Your connections card: what each state means
• Find any setting or connector with the search box

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