How many users does Product Hunt have?
Sebastian Janus - derStartupCFO
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WhatsPlay
SimilarWeb says 7M traffic. I believe has about 10M users and maybe 20% active users.
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register a new account and check the number you get. that should be the count. I think
WakaTime
@sentry_co no, that's just the number of signups including millions of deleted bot signups, so doesn't tell much
@alanhamlett That was the question. 🤷 If the question was framed sans bots and deleted accounts and or inactive accounts. I would say, only PH knows. The best estimate from outside would be to use these web traffic counter services.
WakaTime
@sentry_co look at my comment below where I estimate the number, from wakatime.com/blog/67-bots-so-many-bots
@alanhamlett I think the conclusion and analysis is speculative. But a great expose non the less. Im not a fan of the current war against PH. If you can't be innovative then your product won't get featured. Simple as that. This is by design to ward off the bot armies. If you remove the curation all hell break loose, as it was in the months before moderation was implemented. As for the bots. I think the PH team is letting them live on the platform for now. they could easily remove them with for instance the pattern you used as a detector. But in doing so, overnight a new breed would surface that wouldn't be as detectable. AS it is now, ph can at least behind the scene kick out launches that were clearly gamed. But it's also less of a problem now that we only have 10-20 launches a day. these launches are mostly by serious makers that don't conduct in bot activity. some shady makers go through the curation and cheat. but that is detected, and next time they launch in their name. guess what. they won't be featured, because their due dil won't check out. as we move forward. this due dil will become more strict, and the algos for detecting bots will improve. So it's a transitory issue that will be less relevant soon enough. Hang in there makers 💪
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A google search for "site:https://www.producthunt.com/@" return 435k results, so there is at least that number of users.
WakaTime
@fabian_maume @sfali789 @abdalyousef you're close! It's around 500k but not counting lurkers and still some of those might be automated bot accounts
Jaeves: Content & Marketing AI Copilot
@fabian_maume,
That's a good answer ;-) I estimate that there are at least 600k active users on productHunt. But I reckon there are many more, maybe a few million.
Shopify NFT App
Good question. I couldn't find the answer. However, if you have the app, you have an associated number. Mine is 5,500,251 - Monthly active users would be great to know too.
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@andres_rivera3 Oh nice.
Jaeves: Content & Marketing AI Copilot
If you register a new account, then it shows more than 6.3 million
WakaTime
@abdalyousef that's just the number of signups, but they get thousands of fake signups per day that ultimately are deleted so that number doesn't tell you the total number of real signups.
Jaeves: Content & Marketing AI Copilot
@alanhamlett I totally agree with you on that. Based on my estimation, there are at least 600k active users on Product Hunt, or possibly 1-2 million who have been active at some point since Product Hunt launched in 2013. However, I also believe there are many more users who created accounts but haven’t been active. Some may have even created new accounts later and forgotten about their old ones. So, perhaps the total number of real signups could be closer to 3 million, accounting for those inactive users as well.
