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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: 0.222s | source
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minimaxir ◴[15 Dec 15 19:46 UTC] No.10739972[source]▶
Speaking of "PH is rigged by insiders," it's worth noting that a "top user" is selling a book on how to best pander to the PH userbase: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00TP3MFHE/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?qid=...

This is an odd racket, to say the least.

Re/code wrote a relevant article a few months back (http://recode.net/2015/06/18/product-hunt-the-startup-kingma...) about Product Hunt elitism, which I was interviewed for and the response from the PH team to the article was essentially "haters gonna hate." It's disappointing that nothing has changed since then, and arguably, things have gotten worse.

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1. anon8418 ◴[15 Dec 15 21:38 UTC] No.10740663[source]▶
PH Is the ultimate bubble startup. A literal circlejerk wrapped in some clean CSS and nice JS.

Get used to shit like this as increasingly more MBAs flock to the valley...

For those older in the community, the archetype of the honorable hacker - does it still exist?

Hard to find the Wozs of the world in the sea of douchetastic MBAs and former consultant/bankers. My personal favorite is the wave of MBA VC Associates every summer and fall.

Recently had dinner with a founder who kept on going about his "personal brand" and leveraging that to waste other peoples' money until he struck it big!