2.5 years ago, I hit #1 on Product Hunt. Last week, we launched a different product with roughly the same playbook and finished #6. Same platform, very different feeling. Product Hunt used to feel like a launch engine. People browsed, clicked around, commented, and found products they'd never heard of. This time it felt more like a scoreboard. The products that came in with an audience got amplified. The ones that didn't mostly sat there. By the end of the first 4 hours, the...