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Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?

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Re: Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?

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Post by jedberg »

richardfey wrote: post #70
jedberg wrote: post #47

> We consider a 2XX (Success) and 3XX (Redirection) status codes successful I feel like this is flawed, especially considering 1/2 of the successful responses were 3XX. It's possible that they had just linked a short URL that was a redirect, but it's also possible that the product was shuttered and a redirect put in place to a replacement product, the company homepage, or even an acquiring company. I don't think ther…

Won't parked domains be all 2XX? But those are hardly "alive"

Indeed, another flaw in the system. But I think the article at least calls out that there may be leading pages for dead apps that are still live.

Re: Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?

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Post by NicoJuicy »

collateral0 wrote: post #52
NicoJuicy wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Robots.txt

If the google crawler actually respected robots.txt your point might be salient.

It does.

Please verify your experience with the Google ip range.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/...

A lot of crawlers spoof the Googlebot user agent so you wouldn't block them ;)

Re: Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?

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Post by archilex »

BlewisJS wrote: post #16

Unrelated 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'…

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Re: Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?

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Post by elkos »

nullspace wrote: post #66
tnolet wrote: post #65

Totally anecdotal / single datapoint: launched my side project in 2018 on Producthunt. Total crickets. 5 upvotes. We are now a 20+ people team, 400+ B2B customers and $12M raised.

And we are one of those 400+ B2B customers. Didn't know you were just 20+ people! Really, really solid product. Checkly is a very core part of our infrastucture.

Checkly right? Looks pretty interesting.

Re: Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?

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Post by criddell »

Pete-Codes wrote: post #13

Nice! 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!

How many of those dozen things are still up an running?

Re: Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?

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Post by elkos »

PatrolX wrote: post #6

Interesting, I'd like to see a more comprehensive version of this using https://builtwith.com/ detection data for products where it's relevant.

Many people use a blog platform for their main info site and a different setup on the actual product isn't that right?

Re: Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?

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Post by tnolet »

nullspace wrote: post #66
tnolet wrote: post #65

Totally anecdotal / single datapoint: launched my side project in 2018 on Producthunt. Total crickets. 5 upvotes. We are now a 20+ people team, 400+ B2B customers and $12M raised.

And we are one of those 400+ B2B customers. Didn't know you were just 20+ people! Really, really solid product. Checkly is a very core part of our infrastucture.

Thanks, that means a lot!

Re: Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?

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Post by tiffanyh »

tnolet wrote: post #65

Totally anecdotal / single datapoint: launched my side project in 2018 on Producthunt. Total crickets. 5 upvotes. We are now a 20+ people team, 400+ B2B customers and $12M raised.

> “$12M raised”

Why is that even a metric to speak about?

Shouldn't the metric that matters most be # of customers, how engaged they are with using the product and ultimately sales?

Bringing up how much you have raised seems like the priorities are misaligned.

Re: Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?

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Post by itronitron »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #3

Fair 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…

That's a lot of incredible journeys that have reached their end.

Re: Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?

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Post by lethologica »

tiffanyh wrote: post #78
tnolet wrote: post #65

Totally anecdotal / single datapoint: launched my side project in 2018 on Producthunt. Total crickets. 5 upvotes. We are now a 20+ people team, 400+ B2B customers and $12M raised.

> “$12M raised” Why is that even a metric to speak about? Shouldn't the metric that matters most be # of customers, how engaged they are with using the product and ultimately sales? Bringing up how much you have raised seems like the priorities are misaligned.

Oh don’t act like it’s not an important number. We don’t live in a utopia where money doesn’t matter. It’s an important number.
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