Product Hunt is Dead — Sedimental

Product Hunt has become a pay-to-play platform dominated by vote manipulation services, losing its original value as a genuine product discovery community. The author discovered this after launching FinFam and being bombarded with offers to buy votes for $100. The platform's midnight Pacific reset time gives overseas vote sellers an advantage, while legitimate engagement has declined significantly. The piece argues that Product Hunt's focus on novelty over community building has led to its downfall, suggesting alternatives like Indie Hackers and AlternativeTo as better models.