Product Hunt Real or Fake

Guess which products are real and which are jokes

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Guess which products are real and which are jokes

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I've had a long-standing theory that's a bit derivative of Poe's Law[1]: that it's impossible to come up with a startup parody that someone, somewhere in the Valley isn't legitimately trying to raise money for. I found @fakeproducthunt on Twitter, and a lot of them seemed suspiciously real. And, a lot of actual Product Hunt products would have been right at home on the parody Twitter account. So, I made a game where you guess what's a real PH product, and what's taken from @fakeproducthunt. -------------------------------- [1] Poe's Law: "Without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism."

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11yr ago

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@gkoberger Is there a link to see the product when it's a real one? Definitely you can't have a link pre-guess, cause it gives it away instantly, but after guessing I wanted to check out some of the products and couldn't find a link. Since there's no way to search the internet yet… or I can be lazy at times, I was SOL ;)

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11yr ago

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Maker

@benwtnb There is! It's a bit subtle, but it's there:

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11yr ago

noplace

@fakeproducthunt @gkoberger YESSSSSSSSSSS! This game is awesome.

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11yr ago

LongShorts Stories

@gkoberger I'm dumb… clicked that and was thinking "Why is it just bringing me back to Product Hunt?" Feeling tempted to edit my comment now, since I just pulled one of these: https://twitter.com/designuxui/s...

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11yr ago

2for1

@fakeproducthunt @gkoberger what are you going to do when some of fake products become a real? :D

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11yr ago

Toolhouse

How did you come up with ideas for the fake ones Greg? Do you have a PH-bs generator hidden somewhere?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@orliesaurus got them all from @fakeproducthunt on Twitter!

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11yr ago

Toolhouse

@fakeproducthunt @gkoberger hah - awesome :D

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11yr ago

Breeze

Love this! Thinking about turning "Guess the Twitter Source" (related/similar products section) into a platform where users can pick specific Twitter accounts and create their own games like this. What do you think?

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11yr ago

Domino Spot

"Okay, shameless plug... but check it out." Haha, love it.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@v4violetta I had to *somehow* justify the time I spent on this instead of my actual company :)

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11yr ago

noplace

@v4violetta @gkoberger this is now your actual company Greg.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@v4violetta @tzhongg PIVOT!

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11yr ago

CryptoPoops

@v4violetta @gkoberger Wow, I literally used your exact words without realizing. Cheers, Greg, that was beautiful and surprisingly fun! Even the face-palm-y products I was SO SURE WERE FAKE For instance:

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11yr ago

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@v4violetta @gkoberger @tzhongg as long as http://www.producthunt.com/posts... has more upvotes on PH I guess Greg is safe...

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11yr ago

ExactScience

This is awesome and could work for so many other ideas, whats your plans with it?

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11yr ago

Startup Stash

This is awesome and surprisingly difficult haha

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11yr ago

Startup TV

@bramk The only problem is the April Fool's hunts because they are mixed in with the real hunts.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@bramk @erictwillis It got realllly hard to decide what should be included and what shouldn't. I tried to avoid the blatantly joke-y ones, but it's not black and white. For example, the Startup Legitimizer is a joke name but actually provides a real service people can/do use. The sexist tip calculator, Toothpick, is a joke... however it works for real and has an important social reason for existing. Or, Ship Your Enemies Glitter is clearly a joke but has made the founder lots of money which makes it more legitimate than most serious Product Hunt products. In the end, my metric was that each real product should have at least approximately 100 upvotes to be included. There's a few exceptions I made because they were too perfect to not be included, however that was my general rule of thumb.

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11yr ago

Startup TV

@bramk Ok. Cool. I got hit with Geocities Site Builder and got it wrong! I said it was a fake product....which it was because it was an April Fool's joke product. haha @gkoberger

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11yr ago

2for1

There are about 47% of fakes. lol "Your score is 47%. You got 632 out of 1340."

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