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Product hunt died off a few years ago. At first, it was great with a diverse community of early adopters, entrepreneurs, designers, developers and others. Not
by thecupisblue 6y ago
Product hunt died off a few years ago.
At first, it was great with a diverse community of early adopters, entrepreneurs, designers, developers and others.
Noticing that stuff gets a lot of views if posted there, it became popular among growth hackers - which turned into spam and timing/review strategies. They post a product and get employees and friends to vote and comment on how great it is and how their "list of best kale recipes for makers" is such a great product ahead of its time.
Then it became overly positive, to the point where you could barely find a critique on any post - people would follow and upvote and require you to do the same.
Also a lot of coming soon products got posted, and a lot of "list of X, list of Y" products started to surface which became boring to follow after a while. It stopped being a thing for early adopters and just became another media outlet where people post their sideprojects or new updates/launches of their products.