Your Show HN post, 7 days later
Enter your product URL and get a post-launch report: where you were mentioned, how long the traffic lasts, and where to post next.
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Why post-launch distribution matters right now
Every day, several small web games and tools hit the front page of Hacker News at the same time. On a single recent day, a multiplayer cat flight game, a tiny open-source webgame player, and a guessing game all launched within hours of each other. Each one earned dozens of points and dozens of comments, and each one had no idea the others existed. They were competing for the same attention window without sharing any of it. That is the pattern: a launch gets one burst of traffic, the comments roll in, and then the post slides off the front page and the author is left with a spike in analytics and no plan for the next week.
The tools that exist today mostly solve the wrong half of the problem. Launch checklists, pre-launch landing page builders, and Product Hunt prep guides all help you get ready before you publish. Once you have published, the available options are raw search results and keyword alerts that tell you something happened but never tell you what to do about it. An indie author does not need another list of links. They need to know which communities their specific product fits, which ones have accepted similar launches before, and what to say when they show up there.
The timing is good because the launch surface has fragmented. Hacker News is still the loudest single moment, but Reddit, Lobsters, itch.io, and niche Discord servers each carry a slice of the same audience. A launch that only touches one of them leaves most of its potential reach on the table. Launch Afterburner reads your public launch footprint, estimates how much of your traffic window is left, and hands you three concrete next stops with draft copy you can post the same day.
How it works
Paste your launch URL
Drop in your Show HN thread link or your product homepage. We pull public mentions from Hacker News and Reddit and assemble them into a single footprint view, so you can see every place your launch was discussed without opening twenty tabs.
Read your traffic window
We estimate where your post currently sits and roughly how much of its front-page life is left, based on the points curve. You also get a comment temperature readout that counts how many replies are curious, skeptical, or reporting bugs, which tells you what to fix before the next push.
Get your next three stops
Based on your product tags, we match three communities where similar launches have landed well, and generate a short draft post for each one adapted from your original launch summary. Copy it, adjust a line, and publish while the interest is still warm.
What you get
Launch footprint
Every public mention of your launch across Hacker News and Reddit collected on one page, with links, scores, and comment counts. You stop guessing whether your post was picked up somewhere and start with the full picture in front of you.
Traffic cliff warning
An estimate of where your post sits right now and how much of its front-page window remains, derived from the points curve. Knowing you have a few hours left changes what you do next, and knowing the window closed tells you to move on instead of refreshing.
Next stops and copy
Three communities matched to your product category, each with a short draft post adapted from your original launch summary. You get a starting point that already sounds like you, so posting to a new community takes minutes instead of an evening of second-guessing.