When your dream of being featured on ProductHunt becomes a nightmare

4 points

10 years ago

I've been reading a lot of articles about how to get featured properly on ProductHunt and I had big plans for a proper planned submission of my project, which I believe it's a very interesting one for the entrepreneurs community. I know that we only have one shot on Product Hunt so I wanted to be prepared. I have seen many mediocre sites or products to reach more than 1000 votes just because of the hunter and the timing. So I expected mine to reach a decent amount of votes and attention.

Unfortunately someone (I believe with the best intention), who is not popular at all in PH, submitted yesterday night my side project, probably the worst time of the week, (http://www.transparentstartups.com/) without notifying me at. In fact when I realised my website was hunted it was too late and lost in the PH secondly list with just 1 vote.

In addition, my project's profile (https://www.producthunt.com/tech/transparent-startups) is incomplete and inaccurate. Sad thing is I'm the maker but I don't have access in PH to amend my own startup profile to at least leave it in a decent state and explain what the site is about. I've tried to contact them via email but I haven't receive any reply yet.

Right now I feel very disappointed about how ProductHunt works, although I hope the PH team will help me to fix this. As the maker of Transparent Startups I am, I truly believe in transparency and it seems to me there is something not very transparent at PH, I'm afraid.

Have you had similar experiences with PH? Is PH shot over for my website?

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