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A launch is decided by a tagline, a description and a maker comment, all written the night before. With Typally you hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands in Product Hunt exactly where your cursor was.
We make Typally, so treat this as a vendor's guide. Where Product Hunt has a built-in option we say so, including when it is the better choice.None. Listing fields and comments are typed.
Everything about a Product Hunt launch is text, and the maker is exhausted from shipping. The maker comment in particular — the one that explains why you built it — is what converts browsers and it is written at midnight.
In practice people use it for: Tagline and description, the maker comment, replies to hunters, and follow-up updates.
Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Product Hunt:
Grab the build for your platform and create an account.
Put the cursor in the field you are about to fill — Product Hunt decides where the text lands, not Typally.
The recording lasts exactly as long as you do.
Taglines have tight character limits. Speak the long version, then cut.
Typally types into Product Hunt's fields, so replying to every comment on launch day — when speed matters most and your hands are busiest — is a matter of talking. The maker comment especially benefits, since it is supposed to sound like a person.
A founder records the maker comment a week before launch, in one take, explaining the problem that made them build it. On the day it reads like conviction rather than fatigue.
Record the maker comment days before launch, when you can still explain why you built the thing without sounding tired.
Taglines have tight character limits. Speak the long version, then cut.
No. All fields are typed.
The maker comment. It is the only part in your own voice and the part that explains why anyone should care.
Yes, and launch day is exactly when replying quickly matters.
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