Product Hunt is dead • Hacker News Board

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by mhashemi » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

alberth wrote: post #19

I always thought Product Hunt, due to a16z investing in it back in 2014, was more of a media engine for their own portfolio companies than anything else. Maybe I wrongly assumed all these years. https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/08/product-hunt-gets-6-1-mill...

Well, it's not a bad thesis in 2014. They seem to have had a pretty big hand in killing their baby in 2022, by bundling it with a crypto startup with a URL that already fails to DNS resolve https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-prologue/

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by renewiltord » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

Lol user generated votes are garbage. Everyone eventually catches on. It's why YC only tried the "HN users get to pick a startup to fund" one time and then gave up on it.

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by mhashemi » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:18 PM UTC

fcpguru wrote: post #16

https://launchdirectories.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44668574

Woooow, there are so many! Impressive list, but do any of them work?

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by fcpguru » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:21 PM UTC

mhashemi wrote: post #23

fcpguru wrote: post #16

https://launchdirectories.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44668574

Woooow, there are so many! Impressive list, but do any of them work?

hehe not really. But I did find https://peerlist.io/ from that list. And it's a nice community.

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by arthurofbabylon » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:21 PM UTC

That duck is the poetic epitome of Product Hunt. Sadly, and descriptively.

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by pluc » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:22 PM UTC

ProductHunt has been dead ever since marketers have figured out how to game it and "optimize" it like any other search engine. Same as Google Search. Smart people caught on, moved on elsewhere, and the only people left are the other marketers who trade upvotes amongst themselves.

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by xnx » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:22 PM UTC

Is there a good popular version of a site like alternative.to for SaaS apps?

Google AI search makes it pretty easy to find alternatives in most product categories, but sometimes the explicit organization is useful for very new items.

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by trilogic » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:24 PM UTC

slater wrote: post #18

trilogic wrote: post #13

I am wondering why? OFC when you clearly kick out every successful developer keeping strictly narratived ones... Lately non one cares how powerful you are, you be with progress or be history.

What's this in reference to...?

Well well downvoted again, I am laughing it out :))

>What's this in reference to...? To me personally and many others stating the facts in different forums how their account got closed when they got popular. People wont let it go so easy, they worked hard. You either don´t accept an account since the beginning or once accepted can´t be closed later because becoming popular, nonsense. I know this will be downvoted and sent to the bottom as always but Producthunt, Google, Youtube are history (the new blockbuster). I will never use them again personally (even if they pay me), and so are doing all the others.

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by yoyomamayoyo » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:25 PM UTC

ProductHunt may be dead, but prestigehunt lives on!

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by busymom0 » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:25 PM UTC

> And it's predatory to foster a "community" where clout peddlers can predate on a

The sentence is missing the ending.