Slightly related: If you wanna analyze all product hunt posts until july 2021 yourself you can do so here:
Disclaimer: I created that demo
Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?
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#12Fair warning: This is a blog post advertisement for ScrapingBee. The data is still interesting. The most interesting chart is one of the last: Proportion of Failures over time. As expected, more recent product links are less likely to 404 or 5xx. Going back to 2014, almost 1/3 of the featured links give a 4xx or a 5xx response. That’s a lot! More surprising, links as recent as 2020 show a 1/4 failure rate. Those proj…
> More surprising, links as recent as 2020 show a 1/4 failure rate. Those projects basically launched on PH, then shut down shortly afterward. This would very well fit a "fail fast" attitude with testing MVPs, wouldn't it? At least that's what I would guess. Got a great start with PH but didn't move on from there, so the domain was not renewed...
Does a great start on PH mean very much? The chances your target audience is there for most products seems very low. I would love to see this data compared to all products/startups in general, but of course that's probably difficult to do.
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#13Nice! I've often wondered what proportion survive. Tbh, I've launched about a dozen things on PH and it's not realistic for every product to be a success. You learn by your bruises so I'd be surprised if most founders didn't have a string of failed launches behind them.
Interesting to see the categories that had the best responses include no-code!
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#14My favorite un-ironic ProductHunt product was an app that would let you map where you cried. Absolutely nutty. I miss peak product hunt :(
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#15The no-code trend taking off during the later half of 2020 is really interesting. Something I haven't payed too much attention too yet.
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#16Unrelated to the article - is it just me or is this scrapingbee product borderline nefarious? From the homepage:
> Thanks to our large proxy pool, you can bypass rate limiting website, lower the chance to get blocked and hide your bots!
> Scrapingbee helps us to retrieve information from sites that use very sophisticated mechanism to block unwanted traffic, we were struggling with those sites for some time now and I'm very glad that we found ScrapingBee.
Re: Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?
#17Fair warning: This is a blog post advertisement for ScrapingBee. The data is still interesting. The most interesting chart is one of the last: Proportion of Failures over time. As expected, more recent product links are less likely to 404 or 5xx. Going back to 2014, almost 1/3 of the featured links give a 4xx or a 5xx response. That’s a lot! More surprising, links as recent as 2020 show a 1/4 failure rate. Those proj…
I find your warning a bit unfair as there are literally no CTA inside the blog content promoting our product and only 2 internal links toward other educational posts. But anyway, I thought about taking a random sample of pages who returns a "200". Let's say 150, and manually tagging them to find if they're "dead" or not. And then reuse the "dead or alive but a 200" ratio for all the pages but I was afraid that I'd ne…
> I find your warning a bit unfair as there are literally no CTA inside the blog content promoting our product
It’s obviously blog content designed to promote your product, hosted on the company’s product website. I don’t see how the FYI is unfair.
I added it because the content was valuable but HN can be finicky about blog posts from companies advertising their own products. Trying to get ahead of indignant dismissals.
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#18It would be interesting to see:
1. How the online ones are doing financially.
2. Which sectors are doing well - what are the trending tools.
Skimmed through PH APIs, don't think this is possible. Courtland's Indie Hackers (they have stripe verified revenue) maybe of help - a quick google resulted in this¹ result
There's also microconf report on SaaS's²
[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/post/indie-hackers-are-making-6...
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#19Unrelated to the article - is it just me or is this scrapingbee product borderline nefarious? From the homepage: > Thanks to our large proxy pool, you can bypass rate limiting website, lower the chance to get blocked and hide your bots! > Scrapingbee helps us to retrieve information from sites that use very sophisticated mechanism to block unwanted traffic, we were struggling with those sites for some time now and I'…
No more nefarious than the measures websites put up to avoid scrapers? This just rehashes the Linkedin vs Hiq case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
(not a user, but I do some amount of scraping through other means)
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#20Anecdotal data. I released a couple of things on product hunt. Popularity-wise one did will, the other went nowhere. Financially, it was completely the opposite. Boring stuff is very successful. I haven't seen a "popular" product hunt thing that I am willing to pay for in ages!!
People pay for pain meds, product hunt featured products are colorful vitamins.