“ I've launched 42 dev tools on Product Hunt in the last 2 years — or maybe 55? To be honest, I've lost count.” That is a valid reason to NOT launch a product there. Imagine the bloat level and how difficult would it be to emerge.

"Product Hunt definitely is a great place to launch — a place where many developer-first products launched successfully: Supabase, Resend, and Warp, to name a few.

According to similarweb.com, Product Hunt gets 4.8 million unique visitors every month, and according to Ahrefs, it has a 91 domain rating.

Product Hunt helps raise awareness, get feedback, and enable early traction.

Rishabh Kaul, Head of Marketing at Appsmith, who launched in March 2023 and ranked #5 Product of the Day, adds:"

As a founder of an app that is/should be a great fit for producthunt, I feel these reasons are not at all compelling. The days of producthunt's relevance are likely in the past as a flood of shitty ai projects have flooded the feed. I would be curious to know who cares about producthunt anymore.

I think it only makes sense for developer products. That whole loud launch strategy is distracting a lot of developers. You have to launch where your customers are.

i recently read a post that product hunt was full of bots, i wonder what others have to say about it https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/15t2l1o/is_product_hu...

Nope. this is all written to advertise product hunt, but the product hunt meta is actually over. Right now, if you are on product hunt, you are not doing yourself a favor. The secrets to distribution lie elsewhere.