What a day!

Yesterday, Honestly launched on Product Hunt and finished with 480 upvotes and 130 comments, placing us among the top products of the day.

We ultimately finished 2nd and, more importantly, we had the opportunity to share our vision with thousands of founders, marketers, and product builders who believe customer feedback should be honest and accessible.

We are thankful beyond words for the support we received

We launched Honestly on Thursday and I wanted to again say that the support has been absolutely overwhelming. Thank you to everyone that has helped so far.
We placed #2 on Thursday and are now less than 10 upvotes away from securing the #3 spot of the week!
For anyone that wants to see David beat Goliath (aka the bootstrapped smaller startups beat the bigger companies), any support would be greatly appreciated!

Two weeks ago, Cloudflare reported that 60% of internet traffic now comes from bots, and that number is only increasing.

Add in sponsored content and fake reviews, and it's becoming harder than ever for founders and brands to understand what customers actually think about their products, online.

After our last Product Hunt launch, we realized that finding authentic customer opinions is a major challenge for founders - and a problem worth solving.
Since then, we ve worked with dozens of customers across the U.S., Norway, Philippines, and South Korea to fight back against this growing problem with Honestly - a platform that discovers and verifies real product conversations across social media.

We're launching the latest version of Honestly on Thursday, June 18th to help as many people in the Product Hunt community as we possibly can. To celebrate, we are offering:

Honestly launched this past Monday and we ended up Top 4 with 350+ upvotes and 40+ comments. It doesn t feel real, because:
1. The support we received from hundreds of strangers across the internet was incredible, and we are beyond grateful for it.
2. We didn t plan this launch. At all.

We ve been so deep in building the product that we kept pushing our launch back again and again and again. All of a sudden, on Monday we woke up to dozens of Congrats on the launch! messages. In our pre-coffee, foggy brained states we were really confused as to why. But then it hit us: we forgot to change our launch date.
To make matters worse, we didn t have any of the essentials: No hunter, no maker comment, no demo video (added in midday). There was just a placeholder of v0 materials we already iterated upon internally countless times. Our logo was even outdated, and the link to our product and website was nowhere to be found in the comments. Not one upvote or comment came from anyone we knew within the first hours of launching.
Because our day wasn t crazy enough, the website broke, so most businesses couldn t fill out our interest form properly, and our consumer facing Chrome extension encountered a huge bug where users couldn t use our product after installing it.
A situation like this usually means guaranteed failure, yet to our surprise, we climbed to a Top 5 position on the leaderboard and were swarmed with PH notifications all day. Even outside of Product Hunt we were being battered with notifications.
We re extremely thankful for the outcome, especially considering the circumstances. This is not a scenario that happens often, but it proved something vital to us:
Even with a shell of a launch, we re making something people want.

We always believed finding real, trustworthy reviews online mattered. But this experience made it clear it s not just important, it s necessary. As AI-generated content continues to blur the line between real and fake, the need for verified, authentic opinions is clear. That s the mission we re pursuing with Honestly.