Startups Anonymous Est. 2013 · Read-only archive
Confessions

Visiting Product Hunt is a boring chore. I usually regret visiting, and recoil at the insular, unfocused and elitist community there.

11 answers from the community

AAnonymous· Apr 26, 2015

You choose your battles in life.

AAnonymous· Apr 26, 2015

Agreed.

AAnonymous· Apr 27, 2015

I totally agree. I find it to be one of the most boring and overhyped "products" of the Valley. Disclosure: I was an early subscriber to their email list of unseen start-ups; I thought it was a great idea. Now it sucks. When you see VC's gushing about how one of their portfolio companies "made it" onto Product Hunt, you know it's time to bail.

AAnonymous· Apr 27, 2015

Someone should make an anti-Product Hunt

AAnonymous· May 6, 2015

Reddit startups. The only reason I found producthunt is when they tried to steal Reddit traffic.

I checked them out couple of times before then never came back.

Felt like that site is full of scumbags.

AAnonymous· Apr 30, 2015

99% of the shit on ProductHunt is made by wanna-be entrepreneur hipsters.

AAnonymous· May 6, 2015

Agree. The only people who go to that shitty site are shitty people wanting desperately to showoff their stupid products to their fellow wannabe entrepreneurs.

AAnonymous· May 6, 2015

It's a cesspool of startup hipsters wasting their lives on useless products.

AAnonymous· May 6, 2015

I was thinking of posting my app there until i noticed that the only people there are just mostly developers who think they're the best people in the world.

I stopped going to that boring site.

AAnonymous· Sep 29, 2015

All your comments sound pretty mean..There's nothing particularly wrong with it..I guess it's a somewhat closed off process to get posted/featured on there, but that's just the decision they've made to make the community less spammy..Lots of useless products, sure, but I bet less than elsewhere where it's free for all.

AAnonymous· Dec 19, 2016

You have to actually email them to get your profile deleted. I just got a reply promising they would, but my profile is still active.