I somewhat agree with nico. I have used product hunt from a long time and was again an active user couple of months ago for almost 6 months. In that time frame, I observed many things have changed in the PH, some for good but mostly for bad. PH kind off promotes products which are of big startups having good marketing budget and those companies literally pay PH hackers having huge whatsapp/discord groups to purchase the Upvotes. Right now, there is almost little to no chances that an indie product would be in top 5 even after passing the guidelines provided by PH.
In short, the platform is widely abused by money and power of VC backed startups which makes it not suitable for indie hackers anymore.
I guess I've been wrong saying AI spam, sounds more like VC spam from this..I remember praising the bootstrapped dropdown to help you find bootstrapped products, but they removed it ..not sure what the thinking is
I somewhat agree with nico. I have used product hunt from a long time and was again an active user couple of months ago for almost 6 months. In that time frame, I observed many things have changed in the PH, some for good but mostly for bad. PH kind off promotes products which are of big startups having good marketing budget and those companies literally pay PH hackers having huge whatsapp/discord groups to purchase the Upvotes. Right now, there is almost little to no chances that an indie product would be in top 5 even after passing the guidelines provided by PH.
In short, the platform is widely abused by money and power of VC backed startups which makes it not suitable for indie hackers anymore.
I guess I've been wrong saying AI spam, sounds more like VC spam from this..I remember praising the bootstrapped dropdown to help you find bootstrapped products, but they removed it ..not sure what the thinking is
yeah, it was a real useful feature. Might have been disappeared due to AngelList acquisition.