"Pay for upvotes!" - Launch day flooded me with almost 100+ emails like this.
Pietro Lungarini
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I love Product Hunt and its community. Today (September 18) is my first launch day ever. Excited like never before, I even saw magical results on my new product (keeping 10th place strong 🔥).
But I also saw a lot of emails in my inbox asking if I was interested in boosting my Product Hunt Launch. Now that I've received hundreds of emails like these today, I'm seriously wondering if Product Hunt launches are actually 100% organic.
What do you think?
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André J@sentry_co
It's a mix of many things. Altho you can boost a random product to the top. Its easier to boost a great product to the top, because the top streakers and top PH members with lots of followers will upvote you, which other people see and they too check it out and maybe upvote. The snowball effect. The top ph members dont upvote boring spammy products.
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CodeWiz | AI Coding Companion
@sentry_co of course, but I'm talking about Buying upvotes. This goes against PH guidelines, but I received many emails promoting this kind of service for my launch. So I wondered that as there was that much of a promotion, there must be someone that actively buy upvotes. You're saying this? That people actually buy upvotes for product launches?
@wheresbebo They have measures to thwart that. But some slip through of course. But if you buy upvotes, you risk losing your launch and get banned during or in the after math. So serious people dont do it. This had been an issue for 8 years now since PH started. But it doesn't dominate the tops spots. If you have a good product, you can do well.
CodeWiz | AI Coding Companion
@sentry_co oh ok that's what i wanted to know, just to know if the competition is fair 💫 All good then