| ▲ | aranw 4 hours ago | |
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? | ||
| ▲ | tdeck 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Ever since it began I didn't understand Product Hunt. It's basically a subreddit full of nothing but ads - who would browse that? | ||
| ▲ | mcintyre1994 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
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. | ||
| ▲ | turnsout 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
The audience is almost literally no one, the people doing the upvoting are doing it for subhuman wages in developing countries, and the only scrap of value created is a "#1 on Product Hunt" badge that doesn't even impress developers anymore, let alone your users. I launched on PH last year and came to the same conclusion as the author of the post. The platform is dead, and deserves to stay dead. | ||