Product Hunt

I'm a very big fan of PH. been following them for years.I do think that the level of the hunts became much lower in the last 3 years with the rise of popularity of the site.I don't find the competition legit as well.Would love to see PH goes back to the roots and focus more on indie tools rather than listing airpods.

Really disappointing. App Listings are outdated. Reviews robotic rather than anything helpful (members playing the point system). Discussions are the click-bait style questions as the platform is really lacking discoverability. No transparency around the awards, kitty, points. One giant mess. Great concept bad execution.

They were great, but now they cannot be trusted.They are allowing promotion of Tufans Adcreative app, after him and his team have abandoned their previous app for which hundreds (if not thousands - there are over 500 reviews), have paid.Tufan is hiding behind 3'rd parties, but there are soooo many successful companies who do similar work.They are promising money (for ads) for reviews and there is a contest that you can enter if you post a review.Tufan from Adcreative is promising MONEY FOR REVIEWS so more people will lose their money, and Producthunt is not doing anything about it.PRODUCT HUNT - by allowing Tufan on your platform again, you have lost trust of a lot of people.Just imagine how many more products are dodgy!Keep away!

Customer Service is... appalling.

Used to be great, but now it's an algorithmic mess!Now everything is "featured", with no explanation, no sense.The previous design which showed a product leaderboard for each day was much better and didn't need fiddling with!It seems now they're turning it into a job board, discussions/communities, review database, and other BS.The core idea was great, please don't screw it up! And stop with the frequent redesigning, keep it simple!

On 9 October 2022 I found this site,To leave a review about an app I had to create an account. However, for this account I had to register all kinds of personal details. Why???I just filled in some nonsense details and received an email "Confirm your Product Hunt account". I NEVER confirmed my account but my account was still created without confirmation. So, why sending this email?Hence, anybody can make an account just by using any email because you never need that email anymore regarding this website and account.Also, the nonsense product reviews on this website are clearly fake. If you need to create an account just enter anything which can be an email and write some nonsense personal details. Afterwards, you don't need to care about deleting that account.

Garbage platform with even worse customer service. I try to log in to my producthunt account and find out I cannot log in using email any more and have to log in via social instead. So I do that and realize all my followers and past data has gone. I try to resolve this with customer service and although they said they can merge with my old account, nothing has happened in over a week. It also takes DAYS just to get a reply from customer service.What a joke, how can you just randomly change the way people are supposed to log in and get rid of their past data? Can't be bothered using this platform anymore.

I saw a lot of nice projects on the bottom of the list forever (hidden by the button “Featured”). The way they decide the order of the list is not by the votes but a "secret algorithm" they describe like "..we cannot reveal exactly how the algorithm works or it might be gamed".. and most of the cool apps will never have the chance to be discovered by other people.. I’m really disappointed of Product Hunt, in the past was better than now