[gkoberger]

This is based on a very misleading typo.

On Sept 25, Jason tweeted that the CTO (not CEO, as this article states) didn't know who levelsio is. In October, the CEO wrote about levelsio, so he does indeed know who he is. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rajiv-ayyangar_why-doesnt-pro...)

Assuming it's true, I don't know if the CTO really needs to know who levelsio is. The CEO does, but does the CTO?

[padseeker]

I made a mistake, it will be corrected asap. Thanks for the heads up.

[gkoberger]

Doesn't it undermine your whole point, though? Your most damning point was at best a typo and at worst a fictional story.

Like, don't you think the head of growth might have an incentive to cause the issues you're mentioning? Doesn't the CEO implying the story isn't true give you pause?

Did you look at the head of growth's LinkedIn? Did nothing about their resume (which I won't post here) give you pause before writing a whole post?

I agree Product Hunt is different than it was years ago. So is the entire startup ecosystem. But this article just came off as sour grapes, where you cherry-picked stories to try to make an argument.

[padseeker]

Are you saying that the one letter typo on the one of my many points surrounding the drama at Product Hunt discredit the whole thing? No I do not.

Maybe I should have shared in the article all the twitter posts where indie hackers are upset how they are getting screwed and how hard it is to get ranked on PH. There is a lot more drama surrounding PH than just the CTO not knowing one well known community member.

[gkoberger]

Great, but you didn't share those.

If you have a better post, I'd love to read it and I'm sure others here would too. But until I see that, I can only go off the words you've written.

[padseeker]

I'm sorry the post I wrote in a pinch and shared within 30 minutes and is free does not meet your standards for journalism.

here's a couple of twitter feeds that center on the drama related to product hunt;

https://x.com/WhoWorksThere/status/1840822087868375085

https://x.com/csallen/status/1840792433447391560

https://x.com/HeyImYossi/status/1840634391040577847

theres a lot more in my feed and the people I follow this could be an all day thing but I hope this supports the headline of my post.

[padseeker]

here's another one where someone is complaining

https://x.com/tibo_maker/status/1840656616032489754