More often than not there are interesting finds on Product Hunt but nothing that's really valuable
Product Hunt is dead
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#52It's another signal of growing internet balkanization trend as online communities pivot to being more exclusive to mirror real-world communities. Once the A.I. farms take over, people flee.
Public forums → group chats, Yelp → Beli , Twitter → X / Bluesky / Gab / Rumble , IG Posts → DMs + Stories, FB Newsfeed → Groups
Product Hunt → Discord, AI-rugpull bots, TBD?
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! I'll check that out. Didn't know if there was some other site that was more popular than AlternativeTo for Saas/web-apps.
You're looking for an alternative to AlternativeTo
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! I'll check that out. Didn't know if there was some other site that was more popular than AlternativeTo for Saas/web-apps.
You're looking for an alternative to AlternativeTo
Just don't search for AlternativeTo on alternativeto.net, this will break the Internet!
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#55At this point, PH is more for SEO because, once you hit the top, tons of other websites will link to your product.
FinFam looks amazing. It's an interesting take on personal finance because I never really have a view of my own net worth. And, because of that, I have been having a feeling for a while that it causes me to be "too frugal" most of the times.
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#56Let me communicate this clearly for the subtype of HN users who are engaged in some startup thing: You won't find actual users for your product on Product Hunt because neither normal people nor most nerds browse product discovery sites. VC's don't care either (except for self-promotion).
If I have a problem and want to buy a solution to that problem, I'll use a search engine to find what solutions are available. I won't check a list of new solutions to problems on a daily basis in the hope that one day a solution to my problem will be on there.
Product Hunt is the tech founder equivalent of refreshing your social media profile, watching the like count increase on your latest selfie.
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#57I associate ProductHunt with lots of rocket emojis and artificial-seeming comments congratulating the company on launching. There is usually zero discussion of the product itself, so the whole thing came off as a way to advertise for free. Dead Internet Theory in action.
It’s not just PH, it’s that entire subculture of “founders” or whatever you want to call it, that is just 99% fake and sucks balls.
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#58At this point, PH is more for SEO because, once you hit the top, tons of other websites will link to your product. FinFam looks amazing. It's an interesting take on personal finance because I never really have a view of my own net worth. And, because of that, I have been having a feeling for a while that it causes me to be "too frugal" most of the times.
Yep, from a founder's perspective PH is mostly an SEO thing. I'm not sure if it's the _best_ SEO thing, but I guess that's part of being a first-time founder!
Re: feeling too frugal, my friends came up with a name for it, "poor man brain" lol. I talk a little about it here: https://sedimental.org/announcing_finfam.html
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#59Product Hunt has been always been native marketing for VCs to launder perceived credibility to products they fund, and for PH that's not a bug, it's a feature. The root problem particularly in 2025 is that discovery for new products is dead as the social frameworks such as have died out for various reasons, such as X's algorithm being very unfriendly to external links. There's a reason that most talked about tech pro…
I couldn't imagine a better way to describe the current concept of grassroots marketing. Spam, and frankly heavy-handed and bad ways to resolve it (no links get traction, etc) have effectively closed the door here.
Anti-spam teams for a lot of social companies are under the umbrella of customer experience, and considered a cost center. The goal quickly becomes: be a hammer.
The impact to user experience, specifically around casual discovery has been profound.
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#60At this point, PH is more for SEO because, once you hit the top, tons of other websites will link to your product. FinFam looks amazing. It's an interesting take on personal finance because I never really have a view of my own net worth. And, because of that, I have been having a feeling for a while that it causes me to be "too frugal" most of the times.
The backlinks derived from PH are generally considered harmful, and rightfully so. It's gamed beyond belief. There is not much to gain from being at the top of PH other than talking about it to legacy VCs.