Chris Messina's profile on Product Hunt

About

I've hunted more product than anyone else! Call it an obsession or call it a side hustle run amok — I love learning from other makers and helping them nail their launches on Product Hunt. If you'd like to work with me on your launch, book time with me here: https://chrismessina.me/call-me

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Maker History

PropelKitDescribe It. Build It. Ship It.
Feb 2026
RaycastYour shortcut to everything
May 2025
LeadrProTinder for Sales
Oct 2024
Mammoth 2Mastodon made easy - Social you control
Dec 2023
Etalon posture braPosture bra that actually works
Jan 2023

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p/digg

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14h ago

Digg shuts down again — succumb to bots!

Well, that was fast. Digg only just relaunched but now will be shutting down because they couldn't fend off the SEO bots:

When the Digg beta launched, we immediately noticed posts from SEO spammers noting that Digg still carried meaningful Google link authority. Within hours, we got a taste of what we'd only heard rumors about. The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn't appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they'd find us. We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough. When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost the foundation a community platform is built on.
This isn't just a Digg problem. It's an internet problem. But it hit us harder because trust is the product.

This is a problem we're of course familiar with on Product Hunt, and is something the team is working on every day.

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4d ago

Featured

What makes you click into a Product Hunt launch?

There are so many launches on Product Hunt every day. How do you decide which ones are worth clicking into?

What s your #1 filter or shortcut?

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3d ago

InsForge - Give agents everything they need to ship fullstack apps

InsForge is the backend built for agentic development. We offer everything AI agents need to build fullstack apps that scale. Our open source backend (2.3K stars on GitHub) provides databases, auth, storage, model gateway and edge functions accessible through a semantic layer that agents can understand, reason about, and operate end to end. Say the word, and you can deploy to InsForge Cloud or your own domain.