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Ask HN: Is Product Hunt dead?

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Re: Ask HN: Is Product Hunt dead?

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So google = no go? - How did you launch your other products?

Once you start adding Google, you'll inevitably be forced to support apple sign in and all the others. In my past job, we couldn't be bothered with all these big tech politics, so we actually disabled all the third party signups. We would require phone numbers because our value proposition was validating that users were real and easier to ban. Apple was not happy with this and their Apple sign ups allowed more anonym…

You're answering from the implementation side, while replying to someone asking about the user side.

Re: Ask HN: Is Product Hunt dead?

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The answer is: Yes.

The answer with more details is: The core of Product Hunt has dead but it could continue to make money because Product Hunt has become a place where people wanting to get traffic has to go but not a website people like to visit.

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