Did we cheat on Product Hunt?
On Wednesday we launched IdentityRAG on Product Hunt — a barely concealed attempt to jump on the GenAI bandwagon, by building an integration for Tilores, our super-duper identity resolution technology for unifying scattered customer data (wow!), with LangChain — the leading Large Language Model (LLM) framework (ooh!).
Turns out people quite like the idea. More people than we expected. As a result we finished 3rd for the day, which for a data infrastructure company is quite some feat and certainly surpassed our expectations.
What these Product Hunt “how to” posts don’t seem to mention, is that when you launch on Product Hunt, you will receive dozens of messages on LinkedIn offering you access to “influencers’ audiences” with guarantees of between 50 and 300 upvotes.
I have to admit, I was tempted. My assumption was that everyone is buying upvotes, and that by not doing so I was, once again, being naïvely honest and would therefore lose.
