Matia Ristic

I wear a WHOOP. I've coached people on movement and sleep for many years and I still can't answer that question for myself. The algorithm is locked. You get a number, you trust it, you stop there.

When we built Open Wearables, we decided the scoring layer should work differently. Sleep Score and Resilience Score shipped in v0.5 - every coefficient, every threshold, every weighting is in the repo and you can fork them, tune for endurance athletes or elder care or clinical populations. Moreover, you run them on your own infrastructure and the same algorithms feed the MCP layer so AI coaching can cite the actual data behind a recommendation instead of approximating.

There s a point where products stop being fully understandable.

Too many features
Too many dependencies
Too much history

And decisions start getting made with partial context.

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?