Makers, we need to talk.
We have a culture problem, and it's starting to bite back.
Our launch-and-dump culture on @ProductHunt is harmful, and it's hurting our goals as a community.
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Let's get started with a bit of backstory...
I was told today about an event that shed light on a recent change to the PH ranking algorithm
A maker on Ramadan Makers launched a product, reached a decent amount of upvotes. They never made it to the homepage.
Quite frankly, this is fine. We really don't expect ALL maker products to reach the homepage, considering PH should probably have a quality bar.
However, looking at the homepage just showed a different picture: products from bigger companies with only 12 upvotes, featured.
This is a problem: it is probably now a little harder for indie or products from creators to get featured on the homepage, which sadly is a huge problem for most rising and new makers on the scene right now.
But there's a bigger problem, and it's a culture one.
Makers nowadays have a very harmful culture when it comes to launching on Product Hunt.
This is the usual product lifecycle nowadays:
1. Launch on PH, Twitter
2. Gain attention and "internet points"
This causes issues.
