Fabian Maume

Both Fazier and Uneed are offering lifetime deals for Black Friday. If you are planning to launch a lot of products, it can be a good deal.
For context, Fazier and Uneed are two emerging alternatives to Product Hunt, where you need to pay a small fee to submit a product (that is how they approach the product launches overload).

We ve got a big update: after ten years, we re officially sunsetting the Golden Kitty Awards.

Lately, my DMs have been full of this question.
While I can t say exactly what changed after Product Hunt s Aug 25 update (since the featured criteria seem a bit mysterious now), here are a few patterns I ve noticed:

1. Version updates: New versions or re-launches (like Product v2.0) often don t get featured anymore.

2. No freemium or free trial : Launches without a free plan or trial seem to be struggling to get featured.

3. Hunter Featured : Having a well-known hunter doesn t guarantee a feature. In fact, recently, the two seem almost mutually exclusive.

4. Look & feel: Launches that use the same template design or layout as others often get skipped.

Curious to hear your thoughts - have you noticed similar trends?