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How does Product Hunt ranking algorithm work?
Why does some startup with 100votes can be above startup with 1000votes?
- rrhoover 10y agoProduct Hunt's ranking works similar to Hacker News. As mentioned in our F[AQ](https://www.producthunt.com/faq#how-do-things-end-up-on-the-homepage https://www.producthunt.com/faq#how-do-things-end-up-on-the-...) is based on the number of upvotes, time since posting[1], and detected voting rings/spam accounts. [1] Time is an important which introduces a "velocity" factor. For example, a product with 100 upvotes that was posted 1 hour ago would generally be ranked above another product with 100 upvotes that was posted 12 hours ago. [2] We also slightly modify rankings for logged in users based on topics and friends they follow.