Alexis Mermet

I spent the last two months analyzing Product Hunt launches.
Not the upvotes. The patterns behind them.

Here is what the data says.

The first hour is not the most important hour.

The top 10% did not have more upvotes in the first hour. They had more comments in the first hour. Comments signal engagement. Upvotes signal approval. Engagement carries more weight.

Feels like people are using it as a shortcut to dismiss products they don t like.

At the end of the day, devs have always relied on tools to go faster, frameworks, libraries, Stack Overflow, templates, all of it. AI is just the next step in that chain. Typing code was never the hard part anyway. Understanding what to build, making the right product calls, and handling messy edge cases is where the real work is.

AI doesn t change good vs bad builders, it just changes speed.

In other words... what are your capabilities?

What are your multi-project management skills?