[ado__dev]

Product Hunt exists to make Product Hunt money and not promote your business.

If you look at it through that lens, it makes perfect sense what is going on there.

[_pdp_]

The only reason Product Hunt exists is because others use it to promote their business. ;) making money from all of this is simply a side-effect of the value add.

[bdcravens]

You could say that about any advertising product, none of which are necessarily altruistic.