I figured out how to fix Product Hunt and am launching a competitor. No hidden selection process. No potential conflict of interest with vc-owned startups. No bots.

The first LaunchDay will be in November. Limited to 10 products. Only indie makers.

Time to disrupt these mofos.

Product hunt is a joke.

They don't feature your product even with lots of genuine votes and comments, and won't tell you why.

So even if you build a great app and spend weeks preparing the launch, you might stay invisible and it will all have been for nothing.

And when they DO feature you, you can lose to someone who bought votes, or to a big twitter star with 1000s of followers who upvoted them.

Fuck you @ProductHunt 💩🖕

I will probably get banned from there because of this post, but fuck it, it's time to stop lying to your users

First, @iamjasonlevin showed how it was on the inside (imagine the CTO not knowing the #1 person in the audience. Still not sure if it was… https://t.co/ug94b7jb5P pic.twitter.com/w3qrH5VT61

— Nico (@nico_jeannen) September 29, 2024

Product hunt conditions for getting a product feature are getting ridiculous. Only one of the top 5 products is featured:
Leadspicker is first: https://t.co/oelDLOlqO8 pic.twitter.com/rMx0eS2mzR

— Maume Fabian (@FabianMaume) September 19, 2024

I launched https://t.co/9iB05QMwdk – typewriter in the browser, pay to use delete key 🤡

😻 Product Hunt - no feature, canned responses from support this time

🚀 Reddit - 40k+ views, 220+ upvotes, lots of feedback (posted in /SideProject and /webdev)

It can be disheartening to… https://t.co/olICkwS7V4 pic.twitter.com/f6bPW1L17q

— graeme (@graeme_fulton) September 30, 2024

But there is a way to make it fair to everyone:

• make every product submission cost a small price (removes spam)
• only count votes from people with verified twitter/x accounts (removes fake votes)
• give a handicap to people with lots of followers (makes it fair)

That way the rules of the game can be 100% transparent.

The best product + launch campaign wins (especially since the new twitter/x algo can make you viral without many followers).

Product hunt will never do this because it will destroy their vanity metrics (that are falling fast anyway). But I don't have investors breathing down my neck so I don't care.

This is how the first ☕ LaunchDay will work:

• costs $29 to submit your product
• every product is shown on the homepage for 24h (and in the archives forever with SEO backlink)
• 10 products per LaunchDay
• your rank depends on votes and nothing else
• only people with a verified twitter/x account can vote
• makers with more followers get a score decrease (1% decrease per 500 followers: 100k followers account with 200 votes counts as 50 real votes)

No hidden rules.
No unfair advantage given to anyone.
No conflict of interest.

Good product + good launch strategy → you get visibility.

The catch

Don't get me wrong it still won't be easy to win! Building a good product and making a good launch plan is hard work.

And it won't be free anymore ($29)...

But it will finally be FAIR. And the rules are 100% clear.

Submit your product now

If you want to (re)launch your product and have a chance to finally win the game, grab your spot now.

The first launch day starts in November for the first 10 products.

If I get more than 10 signups, I will plan more LaunchDays so everyone can compete and get visibility.

I'll boost it massively to my 98K followers + everyone gets a SEO backlink.

Will build in public using cursor + Ruby on Rails. I listen to all feedback.