Gotta be honest, I come on Product Hunt for 2 reasons
1) When I'm looking for cool start-ups to try, or feature in my newsletter (I write a bi-weekly report breaking down hype and finding profitable opportunities)
or
2) Around the time I am launching (like now!)
Otherwise I hang out mostly on Twitter
If not on a daily basis, I like to hop on every now and then to find interesting products that may be useful for my clients in the future. We maintain a long list of tools that are categorized by their features so we can always come back and dive deeper when the need arises. :)
Yep! I find it's a great source of inspiration for our own business (Liffery).
Reading the comments, and seeing the new launches gradually paints an overall picture of the current thinking of early adopters right now... if that makes sense :)
@vladimir_zivkovic Some launches use paid to win strategies. But the ones that do, are taking a risk. As they get investigated by the PH team etc and might lose their rank / credibility. It's important that we as community members report these incidents as well to keep things fair.
@eonpilot Yeah, just last week there was a launch of some mobile app, I forgot the name. Most of the comments flagged with 🎈 users, and they got like 1000+ upvotes in 3-4 hours, by the end of the day they end up with 2500+ upvotes. They are running for the product of the month I think. All the makers had 1 day streak. PH team didn't do anything about it...
Not anymore! Used to for sure but they (mostly) all started to blend in for me.
This with the lack of adjustments to AI-Spam and discussion glitches has led me like many have said here off the platform.
What about you Vladimir?
@carter_barnett I do agree with you on Ai spam, they seem to just copy each other, but there are interesting projects beside Ai. We will have to live in Ai hype for some time.
@vladimir_zivkovic Right? I thought it would die down but it's holding strong right now. Some people I follow online are really posting the churn rate for generative AI apps so it's interesting to see how this might impact people creating them.
I have it set up that every time I open a new browser on Chrome, the landing page features all the launches of the day! It's inspiring. Love seeing all the great ideas!
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