I've built https://tidily.io for the exact reason you just described. Currently it's in private access mode but i will open it up to public next week.
Here's an article describing why I made this, feel free to check it out to see if you have similar issues.
https://medium.com/oncebot/why-i-made-my-own-productivity-tool-9618571958a2
Hey I had the similar experience with my first launch of tidily.io.
Here's what I learned about PH:
- The network/popularity of the hunter is the biggest factor even though PH says that's not the case.
- I thought getting votes will get you featured, that's not the case , the moderators manually choose the products to be featured.
- Sometime they may skip your product accidentally, you can pink them via message to take another look at it to see if it's feature worthy (which is what I did)
- PH is good for getting PR but not always for getting the right initial users, I got more valuable users from reddit / facebook groups than PH
Hope this helps you with your next launch :)
You have a very similar work flow as mine! for accountability I'm thinking about making an online app where you commit what you are going to do in a week and then review each-other's progress. Probably something like this already exist.
I also made the app I'm using right now called Tidily.io to make my workflow a bit simpler, I didn't really use all the features of each apps but used their major offerings, with Tidily I tried to combine those in a simple way and recently made it available for public :)
The partial roadmap is right there in the landing page at https://tidily.io... The major upcoming features are listed there.. There are more but those are quite technical so can't be shared publically.