# Vesh Agents Launch Plan

## Pre-Launch Checklist (Do Before Posting Anywhere)

- [ ] **Publish to PyPI** — `cd vesh-agents && source .venv/bin/activate && twine upload dist/*` (needs API token from https://pypi.org/manage/account/token/)
- [ ] **Set social preview image** — Go to https://github.com/shailesht003/vesh-agents/settings → Social preview → Upload `social-preview.png`
- [ ] **Verify `pip install vesh-agents`** works from PyPI
- [ ] **Star your own repo** (yes, this matters for social proof)

## Launch Day Schedule

**Best day: Monday-Thursday. Best time: 8-9 AM US Eastern.**

### Morning (8-9 AM ET)

1. **Hacker News** — Submit the Show HN post (see `hackernews.md`)
   - URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/submit
   - Post the first comment immediately
   - Stay online for 2-3 hours to reply to comments

2. **Twitter/X** — Post the thread (see `twitter_thread.md`)
   - Include a GIF/screenshot of terminal output
   - Space tweets 2-3 minutes apart

### Midday (12-1 PM ET)

3. **r/Python** — Post (see `reddit_python.md`)
4. **r/SaaS** — Post (see `reddit_saas.md`)
5. **r/LocalLLaMA** — Post (see `reddit_localllama.md`)

### Saturday

6. **r/MachineLearning** — Post with [P] tag (see `reddit_machinelearning.md`)
   - Show-and-tell posts are only allowed on Saturdays

## Week 2

- [ ] Write Dev.to article: "I Built 6 AI Agents That Analyze SaaS Revenue in 30 Seconds"
- [ ] Cross-post to Hashnode and Medium (use friend link)
- [ ] Submit to Product Hunt (schedule a launch)
- [ ] Post in AI Discord communities (LangChain, LiteLLM, Cursor, OpenAI)

## Week 3-4

- [ ] Record YouTube demo (< 5 min) with asciinema or VHS
- [ ] Write technical blog posts:
  - "Entity Resolution Without Training Data"
  - "Building an Ontology-Driven Metric Engine"
  - "Agentic Pipelines with OpenAI Agents SDK"
- [ ] Submit to more awesome lists:
  - awesome-python
  - awesome-openai
  - awesome-saas

## Ongoing

- [ ] Respond to every issue and PR within 24 hours
- [ ] Merge "good first issue" PRs quickly to show activity
- [ ] Post updates on Twitter with #buildinpublic
- [ ] Track stars/forks weekly

## Key Metrics to Track

| Metric | Goal (30 days) |
|--------|----------------|
| GitHub Stars | 500+ |
| PyPI Downloads | 1,000+ |
| Open Issues | 20+ (shows activity) |
| Contributors | 5+ |
| Forks | 20+ |
