[wakeupcall]

Great analysis, but I'm even more surprised to discover that producthunt is a "real" website at all.

I blocked PH with ublacklist a long time ago for looking like SEO promotion/garbage and looking too much like those "VS/comparison/best 5 apps" websites with next to zero content. These pop out faster than what I can filter by hand.

After checking it out again and knowing it is not purely-generated content, I _STILL_ don't see the value proposition if I stumbled on such a result.

[yenepho]

I know multiple companies that care quite a bit to get a good listing on PH, but I had exactly the same reaction: Are there end users or companies that actually care?

[jay-barronville]

VC’s maybe? A friend in VC once told me that a number of his firm’s deals were discovered via Product Hunt. That was a while ago though (probably 2-3 years ago), so I’m not sure if that’s still the case.

[greg_V]

I run market research as part of my job, and yeah, you'd be surprised. PH still has a lot of users and not just from the indie hacker community, but there are a quite a bit of people who look at it daily to see if something cool or relevant pops up that they can use in their jobs.

[welder]

Yes, real readers but content creators (upvoters and commenters) are almost fully bots.