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The idea is still valid though - user generated content which evaluates and provides feedback to other users and producers through which quality floats to the top. The "only" piece missing is how to protect against various vested interests that pull in other directions ...
Launching is hard. I put my own side project on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45345623 a few days ago and it got exactly zero traction. At first it stung, but then I checked https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew and realized: someone launches something literally every few minutes. The odds are just stacked. Whether it's Product Hunt, HN, or even LinkedIn (I actually saw better response there lol), it feels l…
So, basically Product Hunt has become a paid ads platform - only that you wouldn't pay Product Hunt but external service providers. I wonder why PH doesn't take the money directly and switch the business model to some kind of advertising auction. Might be more fair and transparent.
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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?
You know how we joke about RDD - Resume Driven Development for developers who push projects that will look good on their resume even if it doesn't benefit the company? Playing games like this is the equivalent for product managers
How long until products are dead? If AI can build UI on the fly, encode my desires, and launch infra to serve them, won’t I soon be able to cut out the middleman? The reign of product management is coming to a close and I can’t wait. I want to be in control again.
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what is the play those PMs go for, and how does one recognize it?
It's an accomplishment for their resume. Something to use to get the next job that advances their career. You know how we joke about RDD - Resume Driven Development for developers who push projects that will look good on their resume even if it doesn't benefit the company? Playing games like this is the equivalent for product managers
There might be something good, or at least profitable, in the middle of this slop of misplaced effort, but upvotes and recency are not useful metrics for someone hunting for a product.
I 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.