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When there were a lot of indiehacker people active on Twitter, a lot of them seemed to talk a lot about using Product Hunt, but I think they were just helping their friends out when one of them posted there.

The audience is almost literally no one, the people doing the upvoting are doing it for subhuman wages in developing countries, and the only scrap of value created is a "#1 on Product Hunt" badge that doesn't even impress developers anymore, let alone your users.

I launched on PH last year and came to the same conclusion as the author of the post. The platform is dead, and deserves to stay dead.

Ever since it began I didn't understand Product Hunt. It's basically a subreddit full of nothing but ads - who would browse that?

I don't count myself as a Product Hunt audience, but I have visited the site couple, maybe dozens of times. However, it was just brief casual checking to see what's out there. I guess "#1 on Product Hunt" has somehow been burned into my subconscious.