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Maybe I was too late to PH, but it always seemed to be this way to me. For years, "#1 on ProductHunt" is a strong signal to me to stay away. It means the produ

• RileyJames 5y ago
  I found it pretty awesome very early on. Before it got its funding round, tho it remained quite good for a while after. But it clearly became garbage at some point. Personally I stopped visiting when it seemed like a good 40%+ of the “products” were ‘info products’, courses and mostly insignificant curations of other products. I liked it when it was a ‘dedicated show HN, with some polish’. But it didn’t last. And I didn’t find anything else of value there.
  • aaaaaaaaata 5y ago
    Is there anyone out there who took a funding round and then didn't despise working for their company? That's my (current) dream.
• tedmiston 5y ago
  > Maybe I was too late to PH, but it always seemed to be this way to me. Nah, it wasn't always this way. I was in the first 10k users back in ~2014. There are many legit startups and products on there from years ago, when startup product people treated it like their version of HN. At that time it was very well curated, and they had good protection against voting rings -- many startup people used to send out direct links to their posting in their network and then they eventually started penalizing that type of vote. I don't use it much these days, but there's a lot of good (and well-pknown) stuff in this top 1000 leaderboard [1]. [1]: https://pesto.app/leaderboard-for-product-hunt/ https://pesto.app/leaderboard-for-product-hunt/