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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: 0.207s | source
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api ◴[15 Dec 15 20:34 UTC] No.10740276[source]▶
PH strikes me as a vanity metric. Does it really get you noticed that much?
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1. minimaxir ◴[15 Dec 15 20:41 UTC] No.10740318[source]▶
PH is a tautology: in order to get noticed on PH, you need to be noticed by an insider beforehand, which therefore makes the benefit minimal.

The benefit of Reddit/HN is that there's a much higher probability of content that would otherwise not be noticed become viral.