Product Hunt is dead

Or zombified at least. Here's the meat: https://sedimental.org/product_hunt_is_dead.html#the-zombie-...

ah, meant to link straight to the receipts. fixed, thanks!

Has Product Hunt ever been anything other than grift?

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, we get hit with a cyberattack. We don’t have rate limiters on sending invites from validated users, and someone overwhelms that system. All the queues are flooded and grind to a halt.

We work furiously to resolve it. It takes hours to get everything flushed and healthy again.

We ended in 9th place or something.

Never again. I realized it’s just pay to play.

I still check in on PH from time to time. It's rarely productive (mostly mental junk food), but once in a while something interesting shows up. For years it's been dominated by self-promotion, grift, and shallow thought-leadership, and that trajectory always felt inevitable tbh.