We re teaming up with The Pitch by @Deel, a global startup competition where up to 100 winners will receive $50k in funding and up to 10 winners will receive $1M+.

If you make the cut, you ll also show up on special Product Hunt leaderboards, starting with the first event on April 13.

Every day, after launching, makers are contacted on LinkedIn and X by people offering to sell votes. As the Product Hunt team, we are very much aware of this and really hate it. We have systems in place to neutralize this type of gaming. Every vote counts for a different number of points on Product Hunt. A couple examples:

• An account with a recently created gmail address and no history of quality contributions on Product Hunt: this vote will count for 0 points. Yes, this might be a well intentioned user, but we take a conservative approach to protect the community. If the account has a company email or applies for verification on Product Hunt, that's a different story.

• An account with a company email address linked to a legitimate LinkedIn account with a history of meaningful contributions on Product Hunt: this vote carries significant weight.

A couple questions for the community:

• Are there specific accounts on Product Hunt that you suspect participate in vote selling? You can reply here or email report@producthunt.co

• What would you want to see us do differently here?

Today, Clay is becoming Mesh.

It's more than a name change. It's a commitment to a much broader vision.

As the world shifts, relationships have become both harder to maintain and more precious than ever. For the first time, we can actually map, understand, and activate networks at scale  dynamically, intelligently, and in real time.

In a mesh, nothing is truly isolated and nothing valuable is ever lost. That idea sits at the center of everything we're building. Because the future of relationships isn't about managing contacts. It's about understanding the shape of your entire network  and knowing how to move through it, grow it, and shape it.

You'll start to see Mesh roll out across our product, brand, and experiences starting today and over the coming weeks.

Great Scott!

Pricing token consumption is hard.

Cove has announced that they've been acquihired by Microsoft:

If you were a Cove user:

What this means for Cove

As part of this transition, the entire Cove team has accepted offers to join Microsoft, and the Cove product will be wound down on April 1. Existing users can continue using Cove until then, but we are no longer accepting new sign-ups.

We've built a data export feature so you can take your work with you. We recommend exporting as soon as possible all user data will be permanently deleted on April 1.

To export your data:

1. Sign in to your Cove account and go to your Account page.

2. Click the Export button.

3. You'll receive an email with a download link when your export is ready. The export will be a ZIP of HTML files containing all spaces you've created.

4. To export spaces created by others and shared with you, export each of those spaces individually.

Learn more in our Migration Guide.

Well, that was fast. Digg only just relaunched but now will be shutting down because they couldn't fend off the SEO bots:

When the Digg beta launched, we immediately noticed posts from SEO spammers noting that Digg still carried meaningful Google link authority. Within hours, we got a taste of what we'd only heard rumors about. The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn't appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they'd find us. We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough. When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost the foundation a community platform is built on.
This isn't just a Digg problem. It's an internet problem. But it hit us harder because trust is the product.

This is a problem we're of course familiar with on Product Hunt, and is something the team is working on every day.

There are so many launches on Product Hunt every day. How do you decide which ones are worth clicking into?

What s your #1 filter or shortcut?

According to @RevenueCat 's State of Subscription Apps 2026 report, "hard paywalls convert 5x better than freemium, but with significantly wider variance."

Day 35 download-to-paid, freemium vs. hard paywall

Does access method impact download-to-paid conversion within 35 days?

Bluesky CEO @arcalinea has announced she is stepping down, transitioning to Chief Innovation Officer.

Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as the board seeks a permanent replacement, staying active in his role as partner at True Ventures.