# Product Hunt: paste-ready launch

> Schedule for Tuesday or Wednesday at 12:01 AM PST. ProductHunt resets daily at midnight PST; posting at exactly 12:01 gives you the full 24-hour cycle on the day's leaderboard.

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## Pre-launch prep (do these the day before)

- [ ] Create ProductHunt account at producthunt.com if you don't have one
- [ ] Make sure your profile has a real avatar, name, and bio (looks-like-a-real-person threshold)
- [ ] Have someone with a long ProductHunt history "hunt" the product for you. Self-hunting works but having a known hunter increases reach significantly. Look for "hunters who hunt design tools" or "Claude Code makers."
- [ ] Prepare visual assets:
  - **Logo / thumbnail**: 240×240 PNG, brand-mark on cream canvas
  - **Gallery images**: 1270×760 PNG screenshots. Need at least 3:
    - Hero of the landing page (uxskill.laithjunaidy.com, the cream + dark code-window split)
    - The 18-commands bento grid section
    - The /ux-design code-window mockup output
    - Bonus: a /ux-lint output sample showing a real audit
  - **Demo GIF**: 30-second screen recording of /ux-design typewriter playing
- [ ] Line up 5-10 people you know who'll upvote within the first hour (early traction triggers PH algorithm boost)

## Submit form fields

### Name
```
ux-skill
```

### Tagline (60 char max, the headline visitors see)
```
A Claude Code plugin that refuses default AI design output
```
*(58 chars)*

### Description (260 char max)
```
18 slash commands, 5 sub-agents, 30+ Polaris-style references, 72 brand DESIGN.md specs (Apple, Stripe, Linear, Figma, Tesla), deterministic regex linter, mandatory discovery protocol, SEO foundation. Built so Claude Code output doesn't read as AI-generated.
```
*(259 chars)*

### Website link
```
https://uxskill.laithjunaidy.com
```

### Topics (pick 3-4)
- Developer Tools
- AI
- Design Tools
- Open Source

### Pricing
- **Free** (with "Open source" note)

### Makers
- Laith Aljunaidy (you, link your PH profile)

### Hunter
- You, OR ideally someone with PH history who agrees to hunt it for reach

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## First comment: post as your own reply within 60 seconds of launch

```
Hey ProductHunt, solo founder here.

I built ux-skill because I kept hitting the same wall: I'd ask Claude Code to build a landing, and what came back was clean, but it had the same fingerprints every time. Inter font. Purple-to-blue gradients. Three equal cards. "John Doe" placeholders.

So I started cataloguing them. There are now:

→ 30 deterministic anti-patterns with regex detection. The /ux-lint command runs them without an LLM and exits non-zero on Critical/High. Wire it into your CI.
→ 37 motion principles synthesized from production-grade design-engineering work.
→ 72 brand DESIGN.md specs (Apple, Stripe, Linear, Figma, Tesla, BMW, Coinbase, Notion, Spotify and 64 more). Tell the plugin "build a landing in Stripe's style" and it reads the actual brand language.
→ 18 slash commands across Frame / Audit / Generate / Apply.
→ 5 sub-agents dispatched in parallel.
→ A discovery protocol that runs a mandatory 10-field intake before generating anything.
→ Full SEO foundation baked into every public-web output (head meta, OG, Twitter cards, JSON-LD).

Install in any Claude Code session:

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/Laith0003/ux-skill.git
/plugin install ux@ux-skill

Open source (MIT). Cross-stack: React, Next.js, Vue, Blade, Astro, vanilla. The landing page itself was generated by the plugin's own discipline (uxskill.laithjunaidy.com). That's the dogfood proof.

Looking for: real-world critique. Especially interested in fingerprints I missed in the 30-rule linter. Reply with anything I should add.
```

## Launch day engagement (first 4 hours are critical)

### Hour 0-1: ramp signals

- Notify your 5-10 pre-warmed supporters to upvote + leave a substantive comment (not just "great product"). Specific encouragement works: "I tested /ux-design and it caught Inter being used as display, exactly what I'd been doing without realizing"
- Reply to every comment within 5 minutes
- Don't beg for upvotes in the comments. PH penalizes this

### Hour 1-4: depth signals

- Drop substantive replies to feature questions
- Open the floor to "what fingerprints did I miss?". It invites engagement
- Don't argue with critics; concede gracefully and add their suggestion to your roadmap
- Pin the post to your X profile and link the PH URL once it's live

### Hour 4-24: distribution echo

- Share PH URL once on X (one tweet, not three), something like "We're on ProductHunt today: [link]"
- Share once in your relevant Discord communities (no more than 2 servers)
- DON'T cross-post to subreddits with "Help me get on PH front page". That gets you delisted

### End of day

- Whatever rank you end at, write a thank-you comment to the early supporters
- If you hit Top 5: tweet the badge image PH provides
- If you hit Product of the Day: pin it to GitHub README as a badge

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## What NOT to do

- Don't use AI-generated comment replies (PH community can tell)
- Don't pay for upvotes (PH detects + bans)
- Don't tag random influencers in your comments
- Don't claim "we". You're solo
- Don't have your initial supporters comment within 30 seconds of each other (PH flags vote rings)

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## Realistic expectation

ProductHunt is less brutal than HN but the front-page bar is high. Realistic outcomes:

- **Top 10 of the day**: ~150-400 upvotes, ~3k-10k page visits, ~30-80 GitHub stars
- **Top 5 of the day**: ~400-800 upvotes, ~10k-25k page visits, ~80-200 GitHub stars
- **Product of the Day**: ~800+ upvotes, ~25k-60k page visits, ~200-500 GitHub stars, sustained traffic for weeks

If you hit Top 5, the badge stays on your repo forever and unlocks newsletter pickup (TLDR, BetaList).
