When you launched on Product Hunt, how did you pick your category?
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Most founders treat categories like labels.
Product Hunt treats them like distribution.
Categories weren’t added to classify products.
They were added because one global feed stopped working.
Too much noise. Too little intent.
Your category decides:
who sees you
how you’re evaluated
the quality of feedback you get
Wrong category → “Nice demo.”
Right category → “This breaks my workflow.”
That difference matters more than upvotes.
So which category would your users actually expect to find you in?
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We learned this the hard way. Same product, different category-completely different feedback quality.