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.

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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I don't know if it's fair to call this a dead-internet thing. Most comments on social media are nothing or misdirection. You might say "well that's easy if you're paying for fake activity from bots" but I've seen plenty of real people have transactional, nothing-exchanges in real life. I mean, the internet isn't the only place where people are fake/lazy.

Yes, DIT is dead on. Though not completely for free. Front page is gonna cost ya $100-200.

It seriously lacked what discussion happens in a Product Review or Design Review internally (ideally) at a company.