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How Product Hunt really works

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695 points brw12 | 1 comments | 15 Dec 15 19:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.354s | source
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ryanSrich ◴[15 Dec 15 20:11 UTC] No.10740127[source]▶
It always surprises me when people get bent out of shape when they learn that blogs and forums are rigged to favor a certain group of people. There's A LOT of money to be had and if you think places like Product Hunt, Reddit, HN, etc. aren't all being rigged in some way, you're naive.
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1. exolymph ◴[15 Dec 15 20:17 UTC] No.10740168[source]▶
I guess the way the world works is that there's a certain amount of meritocracy in any given system, but it only accounts for like 20% of success.