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Comment by trpc | Hacker News Reader

How much does it take to pay a hunter on PH in order to be featured these days? asking for a friend.

I think the go to rate was $5k, this is maybe 6 months ago. It was a friend who told me after they asked a famous ex-Uber employee to hunt them

That's why I have never found a single useful product on ProductHunt for years now. It has become an absolute farce that it should be illegal.

I was just thinking how much PH has turned to shit lately when I saw this in #2 spot today:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/linkbuildr-for-wordpress

Really? A Wordpress "Linkbuildr" that automates spamming emails when you write posts? And nothing but praise in the comments? PH has become a joke and we definitely need some ethical competition in the product discovery space.

I used AlternativeTo to find alternatives to product hunt, and it came up as the top suggestion:

https://alternativeto.net/software/alternativeto/ https://alternativeto.net/software/product-hunt/

Couldn’t agree more. Yesterday I was browsing the top product of the day to see what future competition was like and the product was a color swatch that gave you similar colors for inspiration. It looked like they mashed together a codepen with a color swatch api I’ve starred but I won’t even bother linking to here. It’s sad for sure.

Could it be that there aren't that many exciting new products coming out? Or is that blasphemy?

But there are a lot of new exciting products.

Where do you usually come across them?

Hacker News, lately, because I don't come anywhere else. I'd say I find a good product every 5 days.

I sometimes use https://10words.io sign up for their newsletter for 5 products per email.

Would love to know that as well ;) Our hunter had signed up to our private beta launched via Product Hunt Upcoming and that's how we got connected.

What do you mean? You can hunt your own product on PH now!

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