Anil Yadav

I know there s a p/introduce-yourself topic here on PH, but honestly, it s hard to meet everyone there.

So let s do it here.

Who are you?

What are you working on?

I've been building Android apps since 2016, and for most of my apps, I never relied heavily on paid user acquisition.

ASO was enough.

Over the years, I learned how to find search intent, optimize metadata, target the right keywords, and iterate based on what users were actually searching for.

At one point, I was able to get hundreds of thousands of organic downloads in a relatively short period of time without spending much on ads.

Hey Product Hunt community,

With hundreds of products launching every single day, I ve been trying to understand the underlying architecture of homepage visibility and traffic distribution.

As a maker, when you launch a product, you often notice it doesn't always appear directly on the main featured feed for every visitor or on every device/browser.

This got me curious about how the platform balances fairness vs. algorithmic curation: