> Nobody takes Product Hunt seriously now.

That's putting it mildly. I'm not normally about doing this sort of thing, but I went out of my way to find and install an extension to block google results for producthunt and alternative.to specifically.

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ekianjo 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Was Product Hunt ever taken seriously by anyone? Since day1 it was an obvious target for influence hacking

	▲	Aurornis 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In some domains a big Product Hunt launch was a serious achievement. VCs would look at it, journalists would take notice, and you’d get a little burst of signups from a user base known to have a lot of influencers. Everyone knew it was gamed a little, but there was some organic traffic. Then it steadily got worse and worse until the front page was just random products that nobody actually used.