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I spent ~3 years building a product before launching on PH. It's a real product with an existing community of (at the time) around 1k on Slack and real companies using it. Got ~80 up votes and finished the day somewhere around position 10. I was moderately happy with it.

Around the same time, a known smooth-talking vaporware peddlar in the same industry launched on PH with literally a bare GH repo and a minimal landing page. I knew 100% that there was no actual usable product. The founder had recently been involved in a similar project that collapsed under huge promises. He got hundreds of upvotes and plenty of "awesome product, LFG man!!!" type comments.

That's the moment I really understood PH.