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Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by AznHisoka »

siva7 wrote: post #37

Let 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).

You wont, at least not directly. But indirectly it can help downstream. I still know investors who browse it every once in awhile looking for interesting products. ChatGPT has also cited a few products in PH lists to me too. So no you wont find users but it aint useless either

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by Aurornis »

electric_muse wrote: post #8

I feel this. Tried launching something in 2022. Night of the launch, my whole team pulls an all nighter. Some launches suddenly pull ahead with 20 upvotes right out of the gate. We have a handful. I see the same LinkedIn messages this author cites, but I ignore them. Why cheat? Once someone secure a top spot, all the traffic goes to those apps, and they stay ahead to matter what. Accumulative advantage. 1 hour later,…

Product Hunt launches have been gamed ever since it gained some notoriety. If your product team wasn’t coordinating with all of their friends and family to create accounts ahead of time and seed them with some fake activity before they all upvoted on launch day in exchange for a gift card, you weren’t going toward the top.

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by smjburton »

Agreed OP. I could see ProductHunt being a place for product-oriented people and founders to form a community and collaborate (constructive feedback, partnerships, etc). Sadly, most of the activity there lately seems to be people quickly creating accounts, launching their vibe-coded app, and then moving on. I've stopped visiting regularly until the maintainers make improvements to foster more of a community and bring people back to the site.

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by stevage »

A thing I find odd about Product Hunt is that I have only ever heard about it in the context of founders launching, through HN. I've never read anything from a user's perspective, no "I found this cool thing on Product Hunt" posts.

Do people really go there to just discover what other random new site launched today? Do people actually crave yet more new apps?

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by boltzmann-brain »

Aurornis wrote: post #79
siva7 wrote: post #37

Let 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).

Product Hunt turned into a meta-game long ago. Getting attention on Product Hunt is more about collecting a metric for your Product Manager resume these days. There is an anti-pattern in Product Management where some PMs want to build the product launch around making a big splash on Product Hunt. Anyone who knows the drill won’t allow this and will instead do what’s best for finding customers, but I’ve seen some naiv…

what is the play those PMs go for, and how does one recognize it?

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by tmaly »

siva7 wrote: post #37

Let 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).

What do people use now?

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by sevensor »

jshchnz wrote: post #17

It's been dead a loooong time

Was it ever alive? I never understood the premise. It’s for, what, people who feel they don’t spend enough money and are looking for new things to subscribe to? Is that a big market?

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by aranw »

siva7 wrote: post #37

Let 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).

This gave me one of those surreal "huh" moments I've had in awhile. I've seen loads of apps boasting about being "#1 on Product Hunt" or whatever and I just realised that I've never actually gone to Product Hunt looking for a product to use. Does make you wonder who Product Hunts audience really is and who is doing all the upvoting?

Re: Product Hunt is dead

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

aranw wrote: post #89
siva7 wrote: post #37

Let 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).

This gave me one of those surreal "huh" moments I've had in awhile. I've seen loads of apps boasting about being "#1 on Product Hunt" or whatever and I just realised that I've never actually gone to Product Hunt looking for a product to use. Does make you wonder who Product Hunts audience really is and who is doing all the upvoting?

When there were a lot of indiehacker people active on Twitter, a lot of them seemed to talk a lot about using Product Hunt, but I think they were just helping their friends out when one of them posted there.
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