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Product Hunt is dead


Accretionary thoughts by Mahmoud Hashemi

This fixed daily scheduling idiosyncrasy leads to all-nighters as launch best practice, and systemically, this means a platform originating in Silicon Valley is unlikely to have its front page content meaningfully decided by anyone in the western hemisphere. At the crux, I just don't think a "launch" or a "product" is enough to tie together a community to develop a healthy ecosystem. Or contrast to one of my personal faves: AlternativeTo, which takes a wiki approach toward the mission of cataloging all software, not just the newest.

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