How Product Hunt really works

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695 points brw12 | 1 comments | 15 Dec 15 19:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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phantom_oracle ◴[15 Dec 15 21:43 UTC] No.10740690[source]▶

Nothing can hurt a well-meaning first-time founder of some useful side-project business then to learn that a non-entity like Product Hunt is a rigged game where the inner circle are simply gaming the system for their friends and people whom they benefit from and will benefit.

From "top 3% of coders" to "your product will get 1st spot if you scratch our back with a small slice of the pie or counter-promote our product with yours" to "we will only invest in you if you get referred through an acquittance of ours", the game surely does feel more rigged each day.

The upper echelons of tech sure does share more similarities with high-finance then they would like to admit...

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Bjartr ◴[15 Dec 15 21:53 UTC] No.10740756[source]▶

>>10740690 #

Does it feel more rigged because it is becoming more rigged or because the level of rigging that already exists in the ecosystem is becoming more visible?

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1. kbenson ◴[16 Dec 15 03:52 UTC] No.10742253[source]▶

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It's always been rigged and it always will be, so long as there is a significant amount of money involved and people act as they have for millenia. The problem is that we keep letting them make us forget this, and when we don't remember this we can't act to mitigate the problem in whatever ways we can.

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