Why I Don’t Launch on Product Hunt

It’s not the be-all, end-all of product success

Greg Dickens
The Startup
Published in
5 min readFeb 4, 2022

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Don’t get me wrong, I like Product Hunt. I scroll sometimes and check out what’s been posted and give an upvote here and there.

But what I don’t like about Product Hunt is this idea that seems to permeate a lot of the startup/indie maker crowd that goes like this:

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Greg Dickens
The Startup

Maker, recovering banker, living in Greece. Building affordable digital tools for local news and other indie publishers at https://www.epilocal.com