How do you feel about offering money to test a product?

Product Hunt was created specifically to showcase what you do. But let’s face it, with the progress of AI, there are more and more products and you don’t have time to test them all (respect to @gabe , who does this job brilliantly).

I noticed that as my following grew throughout social media, more people contacted me wanting to test products. Of course, I don’t have room for everyone, and what’s even more shocking is that to get to me, they want to compensate me for testing.

I have a question for people who create products:

• Why is offering money to people with a large following so valuable to you? Wouldn’t it be more rational to offer that money to companies that have a professional team of testers?

I would like to hear the thoughts of the PH community.