Should be there a limit on the PH for featured products?

Question

Each day, many products are launched on Product Hunt. Most of them won't make it to the "featured" category, and with the platform's popularity, it can be difficult to "scan" through all of them.

Would you limit the number of products launched each day?
How many?

Feel free to share your approach. 🙂👇

Kostya Bolshukhin · Accepted Answer

@luka_brzin I feel that submitting 30d could add more stress to the founders' lives.

We had tiny changes on website and materials week before launch. More over it will likely mean that you will go crazy on marketing your launch 30d earlier and it could be draining.

There are some perks of short time scale.

Sawyer Wyatt · Answer

A daily limit could definitely help with browsing. Maybe around 10 featured products would keep things neat and easy to scan.

Matilde Neffe · Answer

Completely agree. That or share how many launches are already planned for the day so people can be more strategic in their approach. Right now it’s a bit of a gamble.

Brian Perez · Answer

Setting a cap on the number of featured products could be helpful. I’d go with 12 per day to keep things balanced.

Business Marketing with Nika · Answer

@umar_saleem Agree with what you have said. 
Regarding limited upvoting – do you mean by that as users (e.g. me) I could support only a few products? To have limited votes? (just trying to understand your recommendation)-

Business Marketing with Nika · Answer

@umar_saleem you are right. When people only ask for upvotes – it is not the result of a good product – just the result of having many people who are vulnerable to upvote.

Business Marketing with Nika · Answer

@duffdevone Do you have a clear idea how to do it?

Hamza Afzal Butt · Answer

Right agreed, it could be be 40 to 50, i think good enough

Answer

I believe the current limit on featured products may restrict the visibility of many deserving projects. Despite significant effort, some products still need to make it to the featured section.
I suggest allowing an open competition where the community can decide which products they want to support. Alternatively, limiting the number of products that can be upvoted could also be effective.
Additionally, I propose a rule requiring a product to have a 'Coming Soon' page for at least one month before its launch. This would ensure ample time for the community to discover and engage with new products.

Business Marketing with Nika · Answer

@kostyabolsh yep, quite true that "cherry picking" couldn't be totally okay. And it would be probably very subjective

Vaibhav · Answer

@busmark_w_nika At this point, it is too complicated to decide the factors here.

Answer

@iamsidra Yes, people come and try to launch immediately rather than connect with the community and get some feedback.

Kostya Bolshukhin · Answer

There are days with super strong competition and a lot of cool products and days when I got less excited about the featured list.

If there would be a cap for # of submits I am afraid there would be some ways to manipulate winning. LIke ask some friends to schedule the same day as you, then cancel, and voila — better chances to get noticed.

Plus it would be fully on PH team to select who is worthy and it will get even more into curated lists thingy

Answer

@busmark_w_nika Yes, for example, a user can only upvote five products; in that case, the user will be more focused on choosing a better product. We usually see people upvoting many products, or in some cases, I have seen users upvoting all products, which is not helpful at all

Should be there a limit on the PH for featured products?

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