breadwinner 2 days ago

PH is a website that program managers from big companies such as Microsoft and Google go to get ideas for new features.

I recommend against post anything to PH unless you have patents, or a big marketing budget, if not your idea will just be copied by big companies before you can get the word out about your product.

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gkoberger 2 days ago

Do you have any examples of this happening? How many products on Product Hunt do you think are patent-able?

My startup was posted on PH, and many years later we're quite successful. We had $0 budget and it was just me at the time, and it worked out wonderfully.

bootstrpppin 1 day ago

That's a pretty cynical view....besides, big companies would take months/years to to copy an idea - even if it's a good one - and by then the market has moved.