Claire Montgomery

I discover a lot of tools through Product Hunt, and the upvote count is usually the first thing I look at. But it doesn t always match how useful a tool turns out to be for me.

Last month I signed up for a #1 product of the day because of its huge upvote count. I used it twice and forgot about it. A few weeks earlier I had tried a small launch with barely 50 upvotes, a simple tool for organizing browser tabs, and I still use it every single day.

It made me wonder if I give upvotes too much weight. Maybe the comments and the maker s replies say more about quality than the ranking does.

When you decide what to try, what do you look at first: upvotes, comments, the demo, or something else? Has a low-ranked launch ever surprised you?