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Comment by benologist | Hacker News Reader

The risk with PH users is that they're only using the site for a stream of new products. No product matters because later there will be more new products to look at. Even the products they like will only be liked that day.

Do you know of any companies that actually launched and flourished because of PH?

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"Do you know of any companies that actually launched and flourished because of PH?"

^ It's too soon to judge any product/startup by its PH launch at this moment. But then, a lot of huge companies launch their products there.

It's been 3.5 years and that's surely a lot of attempts...

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/product-hunt#/entity

Do you mean companies that were already huge launched new products there? That's proof they have traction, not that they hand it out.

What I was saying was that you can't put everything on PH for success of a company. PH is not about companies. If you have a really nice product and you need people who can give valuable feedback, you put it there. A lot of people think about PH first for their initial traffic, which makes sense.

As you said, people just scroll through products. While scrolling, if they find your product attractive (or thumbnail / tagline) then it's a win-win for you.

As a user, I go to PH to check out new things. And I have stuck to most of the apps which I liked on PH.

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