My general, hand-wavy understanding it that HN is not directly monetized. Instead, it serves various business objectives for YC and the company makes enough mon

My general, hand-wavy understanding it that HN is not directly monetized. Instead, it serves various business objectives for YC and the company makes enough money to be able to afford to keep doing this without ad income or any of the usual other ways that community sites try to monetize. I am not personally familiar with growthhackers.com nor Product Hunt.