Natalia Kudriavtseva

Building a startup is hard. Proving you exist to an algorithm is apparently harder.

I'm a solo founder building an iOS social app. Somewhere between shipping the product, finding users, fundraising, and maintaining LinkedIn, Product Hunt and a dozen other channels, being a founder has turned into a full-time job in being visible.

And here's the irony: my LinkedIn account is restricted, while its identity-verification flow keeps sending me in circles. My passport is a valid identity document, but the automated process hasn't given me a workable way to complete verification or reach a meaningful human review.

The issue isn't whether I can prove who I am. It's whether the system accepts the document I actually have.

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When PH was in its early days, upvotes were the most important. (They are still in demand now), but people increasingly want comments.

Because PH no longer counts only upvotes in the final ranking, but also other things: upvoting, commenting, sharing, etc.