Tell HN: Product Hunt is full of shill accounts, paid upvotes and spam

Re:Tell HN: Product Hunt is full of shill accounts, paid upv... by RileyJames on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @04:20AM (#30511693)

100%. This is exactly why I stopped visiting it. The ‘products’ became so thin. They were more often curations of other products.

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Re:Tell HN: Product Hunt is full of shill accounts, paid upv... by andrewSC on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @04:54AM (#30512014)

Not to venture too OT, however, would you be willing to offer suggestions for sites like PH before it became what it is today? I enjoy seeing "new products" however I'm not sure what counts as a high quality source anymore.

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Re:Tell HN: Product Hunt is full of shill accounts, paid upv... by zeruch on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @03:35PM (#30519643)

I never thought I'd miss "Freshmeat.net" (admittedly focused on FOSS stuff, but it's listings and descriptions and updates were pithy and clear, in chronological order).

Stuff like PH is a boondoggle.

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Re:Tell HN: Product Hunt is full of shill accounts, paid upv... by samjanis on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @06:32AM (#30512854)

Yup. Looks like I'm not the only one seeing this.

I dropped out 2 years ago despite being on there since 2015 which in my opinion was its peak. It was a great place to chat with others about what everyone is building, with their own hands, but now there are too many solutions looking for a problem.

At least hacker news has managed to keep somewhat neutral, despite having its own share of criticisms.

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