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The first years after it started, probably. The last five years or so? No.

Not because there's any change to the site, but because technology has become a ghost town. There are no interesting startups; there's no interesting, burgeoning software technology. It's all tumbleweeds and boarded-up store fronts.

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The most interesting one of last year was Clubhouse. It's so disappointing to go through Product Hunt now and find the best thing out there is a calendar appointment app with less friction or some replacement for Excel, which does a niche thing well but only works on Google Chrome and is slow af.

What would be an example of interesting startups in the past?

Not OP but Dropbox for example was unique and game-changing when it showed up.

I agree with OP that nothing interesting like that has shown up in years. It's all "we're gonna make your kubernetes better" now and hardly anything that makes an actual impact on your daily life as an individual.

I think there are plenty of startups right now that will be gamechanging in hindsight. No code/low code startups, for instance, could be some of them.

Yeah but even dropbox got negative comments here. You never know which startup is interesting unless you see it in action

Ok, good point

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