In Notes, writers will be able to post short-form content and share ideas with each other and their readers. Like the Recommendations feature, Notes is designed to drive discovery across Substack.
About Substack Notes on Product Hunt
“A new way for writers to share their thoughts.”
Substack Notes launched on Product Hunt on April 5th, 2023 and earned 138 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #20 on the daily leaderboard. In Notes, writers will be able to post short-form content and share ideas with each other and their readers. Like the Recommendations feature, Notes is designed to drive discovery across Substack.
On the analytics side, Substack Notes competes within Writing — topics that collectively have 59.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Substack Notes performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Substack Notes?
Substack Notes was hunted by Aaron O'Leary. 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.
Aaron O'Leary