First, the good news.
It's been one week since FinFam's beta launch! The Show HN post trended nicely, netting enough eyeballs to make me confident that FinFam is the world's first and only collaborative financial planner with a marketplace of interactive, open-source expert opinions. I'm especially gratified by the users I'm meeting through the product. Nothing like it.
So, launch is going great, no regrets, right?
That brings us to the subject of today's PSA.
Product Hunt is dead.
I wasn't planning this post. PH wasn't even much of a launch priority for FinFam. But after seeing what I saw, I knew this had to skip the queue. The world had to know.
After all, my launch post on LinkedIn mentioned our ProductHunt launch. And now I'm cringing thinking about how I even sent an email out to few product-oriented friends linking them to our launch, perpetuating the myth.
Hours later I would realize that Product Hunt is sadly no more. Gone was the site I knew from my days on Stripe Invoicing. What's left is a husk, active in appearance alone.
Turns out this has been happening for a while. Just last year, Fabian Maume asked, "Is Product Hunt Dying?" He's got lots of data and background, so I'll stick to filling in the now-obvious answer: Yes. Product Hunt is dead.
And Fabian's not alone. A quick search will reveal dozens of nails in the coffin. I guess that's inevitable when the founder exits and in 2022 a16z merges your mature platform with a crypto venture that no one remembers.
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