I’ve used Product Hunt for years and always believed it was a place where real community support mattered. But our recent launch made me question whether the platform still reflects genuine engagement.
We brought more than 4,000 real users, received over 150 thoughtful comments, and added hundreds of new followers. Yet only a small fraction of that showed up in the final score. Many of our users told us their comments or reviews never appeared publicly, even though they could see their posts when logged in. That was discouraging for people who took the time to register and give real feedback.
It increasingly feels like Product Hunt heavily weights long-time PH accounts while discounting thousands of real supporters who join for the first time. The result is that a smaller group of insiders can outweigh a much larger external community. That doesn’t feel like discovery anymore.
Support responses were generic and didn’t explain what actually happened. I even tried raising this in the forum, but the post never passed review despite being factual and non-abusive.
I still believe Product Hunt could be an important platform for makers, but it needs far more transparency about how votes, comments, and trust weighting work. Real users shouldn’t feel invisible. And founders shouldn’t leave launch day feeling confused about why genuine engagement doesn’t count.
Right now, it’s hard to tell whether Product Hunt is still serving makers — or slowly drifting away from what made it valuable.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
You already ask your AI assistant which tools to use. Now it can do that research using Product Hunt. Describe what you need, compare alternatives, and see what people like or dislike. Community reviews, ratings, and maker details give you more to go on than a product description alone.
Try asking:
Find tools for turning meeting notes into tasks.
Find alternatives to Notion and compare their Product Hunt reviews.
What were the top products on Product Hunt last month?
Building something of your own? Ask your assistant to draft a launch from your README and website. It can help with copy, images, and missing details to craft the best version of your launch.
We want Product Hunt to be useful wherever you're discovering and researching products. And we want sharing what you've built to be just as easy, so there's more for everyone to discover.
Give it a try and tell us how it goes. What could we improve to make it more useful for you?
(P.S. You can send feedback without leaving your chat. Ask your assistant to use the submit_feedback tool to tell us what worked, what didn't, or what you'd love to see next. We'd love to hear from you!)
Love this idea.
Can it calculate my preparedness for the launch (chances of being featured)?
Can it scan all the launches so far and give me an overview of whether something similar (competitors) already exists in the history of this platform?
This might finally crack producthunts search feature? To be finally actually be useful for discovery and finally actually work? please say yes. Please please please 😸🙏