After launching my app on Product Hunt, I started getting a surprising number of emails from people offering to sell upvotes. Most of them were charging somewhere around $1–$2 per upvote, with different packages depending on how many votes you wanted. It was pretty eye-opening because, from the outside, Product Hunt rankings can look completely organic. But once you launch, you quickly realize there’s an entire little market around paid upvotes and launch-day promotion. submitted by...