We Need a New Product Hunt

This is Product Hunt’s main page today. 4 out of 5 places are taken by extremely large companies that need little promotion: Anthropic, Google, Cloudflare and Vercel. Product Hunt used to be a website I opened daily looking for cool new products. Some of them were just nice personal tools and some eventually grew into billion-dollar companies (I found Truebill there during their launch). But since then, it has turned into a marketing platform for big tech startups. Sometimes it’s genuine products, but more often than not, it’s mundane updates grouped under a “Pied Piper 2.0” or just the most basic features. The only thing that matters is how much attention you can manufacture around the vote. There’s an entire industry around ProductHunt. Infinite guides, professional “hunters”, workflows to ensure you will get hundreds of upvotes right away just so bystanders could organically see you and start voting. Founders and marketing teams plan it for weeks and blast across all of their…