Product Hunt faces a difficult challenge. Many people from the software&#x2F;startup world are egalitarian, yet Product Hunt is a business. They must find a balance.<p>A more democratic approach to this would work much better than the insider model they&#x27;ve adopted. Hacker News isn&#x27;t a business, Reddit is, yet both are egalitarian. There does exist a balance that works.<p>They&#x27;ve solved the problem of sorting good&#x2F;curated products based on upvotes, but that is not the true problem.<p>The harder problem is ensuring new products can reach the front page fairly. Reddit would not be the amazing community it is today if there were a curation team at Reddit determining what should be on the front page. If I were PH, I would focus on this problem.<p>I would urge them to address the issues that the community is bringing up. His post does not seem to indicate any change will occur.