> It can be used as a benchmark or reference to investors and customers that this is product has a market need. Is this actually true? The thing I'm trying to

> It can be used as a benchmark or reference to investors and customers that this is product has a market need. Is this actually true? The thing I'm trying to figure out is who is sitting in the audience at PH. Is it really potential customers, or networks of folks somehow connected to the poster that are there just to upvote? Am I atypical in not looking at PH when I'm interested in a solution to a problem I have? (I suspect I'm the norm)