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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: 0.208s | source
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lsniddy ◴[15 Dec 15 20:14 UTC] No.10740155[source]▶
One of my products was featured on product hunt in it's early days (no idea who submitted it). I remember thinking then - "well, cool, but people looking for new products are not really my target market."

Has anyone seen any value come from PH?

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1. frankdenbow ◴[15 Dec 15 22:05 UTC] No.10740835[source]▶
I've gotten great value out of the PH postings that went well (quality users / feedback). For me PH is more democratic than, say, a PR outlet where it is completely up to the discretion of the person I'm pitching to feature me or not.

I've had some submissions tank and not make it out of upcoming and had others make it to the top. The goal with PH seems to be to make sure quality stuff is making it to the top and they seem to do a decent job of that (not all the top submissions are some VC backed product with advisors pimping them, mine is bootstrapped and I posted them myself).

You're never going to make everyone happy but I'm sure they will continue to do more to give people a voice without destroying the community.