This reply makes me think of Craigslist and how it was really meant to be a community based platform for people to do or sell whatever they wanted. Add that they have&#x2F;had a pretty active forum which was also a quasi-democracy in which the community decided what was good or bad.<p>I think this is what was intended for Product Hunt, but somewhere along the line something happened and this became a bit skewed.<p>I&#x27;ve never met Ryan, but I know many that have. It sounds like this was not a product meant to build on the &quot;boys club&quot; but to let people know about cool shit people were building. Eventually it became THE place to find new products and services to a point where, if you were launching a product, posting and having it upvoted on Product Hunt was&#x2F;is a must.<p>From my perspective, that&#x27;s not being a horrible person. That&#x27;s creating something that people trust. Sounds like innovation to me.