We're launching MyVibe on March 17 and I've been thinking about this question a lot.
Right now, the gap between "I built this" and "it's live and shareable" is still way too wide. You finish a project a landing page, a dashboard, a portfolio, a tool and then it sits on localhost. Getting it live means dealing with deploy pipelines, hosting configs, DNS setup...
Product Hunt is best known for its homepage, a daily leaderboard of the most creative and innovative products on the internet. Makers go all out to win launch day, because that visibility matters. Product Hunt also plays a significant role in how products appear in Google search results.
What surprised us was that AI assistants like ChatGPT were rarely citing Product Hunt in product recommendations.