Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified
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Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified
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Re: Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified
#2Product Hunt exists to make Product Hunt money and not promote your business.
If you look at it through that lens, it makes perfect sense what is going on there.
Re: Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified
#3Product Hunt exists to make Product Hunt money and not promote your business. If you look at it through that lens, it makes perfect sense what is going on there.
The only reason Product Hunt exists is because others use it to promote their business. ;) making money from all of this is simply a side-effect of the value add.
Re: Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified
#4I don't know anything about product hunt or the people discussed, but it is infuriating when a product person doesn't know the product. I'm happy to work at company currently where the product org is very competent and are "power users" of the products. I think it makes a HUGE difference
Re: Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified
#5I launched an app on Product Hunt several months ago.
I found the exercise of listing the app and creating the content for the listing a worthwhile exercise, but nothing else about the experience worthwhile.
Every day its listings are filled with redundant apps, template shovelware, wrappers around AI APIs, and random non-app content (think ebooks, blog posts, courses, etc.) Very occasionally you'll find a useful utility or two by a independent team (but you gotta scroll wayyy down). PH has completely failed to defend their ranking algorithms against spam and brigading.
Re: Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified
#6Product Hunt exists to make Product Hunt money and not promote your business. If you look at it through that lens, it makes perfect sense what is going on there.
The only reason Product Hunt exists is because others use it to promote their business. ;) making money from all of this is simply a side-effect of the value add.
You could say that about any advertising product, none of which are necessarily altruistic.
Re: Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified
#7This is based on a very misleading typo.
On Sept 25, Jason tweeted that the CTO (not CEO, as this article states) didn't know who levelsio is. In October, the CEO wrote about levelsio, so he does indeed know who he is. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajiv-ayyangar_why-doesnt-pro...)
Assuming it's true, I don't know if the CTO really needs to know who levelsio is. The CEO does, but does the CTO?
Re: Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified
#8This is based on a very misleading typo. On Sept 25, Jason tweeted that the CTO (not CEO, as this article states) didn't know who levelsio is. In October, the CEO wrote about levelsio, so he does indeed know who he is. ( https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajiv-ayyangar_why-doesnt-pro... ) Assuming it's true, I don't know if the CTO really needs to know who levelsio is. The CEO does, but does the CTO?
I made a mistake, it will be corrected asap. Thanks for the heads up.
Re: Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified
#9Key points:
1. There are many to launch but most of the sites don’t have the community or credibility that PH seems to have lost.
2. If you want what PH was 3-4 years ago you have to go somewhere else.
3. If you want to build the new Product Hunt you can’t just create a site where people can submit their product and launch. You need affordances that cultivate community.
4. Once you get traction you should expect some members will game your system: successful systems always attract parasites.
Re: Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified
#10Any "Ranking of X" or "Curated List of Y" becomes useless and untrustworthy as soon as a cottage industry springs up around it where people can pay to boost their ranking or get on the lists. SEO, Amazon ratings, YouTube recommendations, even meatspace things like college rankings. This seems like The Big Problem that recommendation / discovery sites have been failing to solve for decades.