Product Hunt

The place to discover your next favorite thing

4.8•124 reviews•

142K followers

The place to discover your next favorite thing

4.8•124 reviews•

142K followers

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Founded in 2013 as a tiny side project, Product Hunt has become the place for makers and companies to launch their latest app, gadget, or physical products to the world. It's a global community of friendly folks sharing and discussing the latest in tech.

Product Hunt Reviews

The community submitted 124 reviews to tell us what they like about Product Hunt, what Product Hunt can do better, and more.

4.8

Based on 124 reviews

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Founders consistently laud Product Hunt for reach, fast feedback, and a supportive launch cadence. Makers of

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Duonut | Conversational AI survey.

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Epsilla (YC S23)

highlight access to early adopters and a smooth developer experience, with one noting seamless integration work. Users echo the daily discovery value, lively discussions, and helpful forums, though some cite UX inconsistencies, APAC/B2B discoverability gaps, and slow support. A critical thread questions opaque vote weighting and visibility for new accounts. Overall: strong launch spark, vibrant community, needs clearer trust signals and UI polish.

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Pros

platform for product launches (26)

discover new products (21)

community feedback (11)

global community (7)

tech trends (7)

community discussions (6)

support for startups (6)

vibrant community (6)

networking opportunities (5)

community support (4)

Cons

review system issues (6)

messy UI (4)

content update speed (3)

support team responsiveness (2)

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messy UI (4)support team responsiveness (2)review system issues (6)content update speed (3)missing comments (1)

I’ve used Product Hunt for years and always believed it was a place where real community support mattered. But our recent launch made me question whether the platform still reflects genuine engagement.

We brought more than 4,000 real users, received over 150 thoughtful comments, and added hundreds of new followers. Yet only a small fraction of that showed up in the final score. Many of our users told us their comments or reviews never appeared publicly, even though they could see their posts when logged in. That was discouraging for people who took the time to register and give real feedback.

It increasingly feels like Product Hunt heavily weights long-time PH accounts while discounting thousands of real supporters who join for the first time. The result is that a smaller group of insiders can outweigh a much larger external community. That doesn’t feel like discovery anymore.

Support responses were generic and didn’t explain what actually happened. I even tried raising this in the forum, but the post never passed review despite being factual and non-abusive.

I still believe Product Hunt could be an important platform for makers, but it needs far more transparency about how votes, comments, and trust weighting work. Real users shouldn’t feel invisible. And founders shouldn’t leave launch day feeling confused about why genuine engagement doesn’t count.

Right now, it’s hard to tell whether Product Hunt is still serving makers — or slowly drifting away from what made it valuable.

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Product Hunt

to build git-lrc

•4 reviews

As a bootstrapped startup working to help the devtools community, PH is providing us a platform to share our work with the world. We are thankful to PH for this opportunity.

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•14 reviews

Launch, Get Feedback and Grow!

What's great

platform for product launches (26)community feedback (11)

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to build PromptURLs

•8 reviews

The best place to reach early adopters and get real feedback from people who genuinely care about new tools. No other platform has the same concentration of AI-enthusiasts and productivity power users — exactly the audience PromptURLs is built for.

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Support responses were generic and didn’t explain what actually happened. I even tried raising this in the forum, but the post never passed review despite being factual and non-abusive.

Right now, it’s hard to tell whether Product Hunt is still serving makers — or slowly drifting away from what made it valuable.