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Not getting featured on PH even though some products with fewer upvotes are featured?

Hi people,

I don't know if this happened to anyone, but my Producthun launch is going fairly well, with 15 upvotes already, but it never gets on the home page.

In my previous launches, it was "enough" to get 10-12 upvotes in the early hours to get on the home page (and I know it needs to get upvotes to keep it there).

Now, there are 2-3 products with almost half of the upvotes of my product getting featured, but mine just sits in the "newest" tab.

I didn't buy upvotes or anything like that, some famous makers even upvoted my product so that's why I'm kind of confused.
Do PH "shadow-ban" certain products?

Any feedback is appreciated, let's understand the PH algorithm together!

on December 26, 2021
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    So I believed the featured tag is a manual flag done by the Product Hunt team, not done by an algorithm. I've always contacted the team directly in order to be featured, and that's always worked.

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      Wow... Thank you for the heads up.

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      Hi @td_evans who did you contact and what did you tell them to get featured in such situations?
      P.S. I just saw your product Email Octopus on Product Hunt. It's really cool, gonna try it!

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        I just messaged them via the Chat widget on the Product Hunt home page.

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        I thought they have some amazing, secret algorithms. Thanks for the clarification.

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          Don't quote me on this, but I think they have this written somewhere. Pretty sure I've read it, just don't remember where exactly.

          I do know how you feel, though. I'm also planning to launch my project soon and it seems there are a lot small details to discover about PH.

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            @td_evans, @Primer, @mkrunic thank you all for the information.
            I've contacted Producthunt and they were supportive, they rescheduled my launch for today and now it's the top product now!!

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              I'm glad it worked out for you! Congrats!

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                @td_evans also surprised me that it worked for him. And now it worked for me.

                I would guess that it's not that easy though - if I were to launch another copywriting tool or note taking app, contacting them wouldn't help.

                Also as I said, other products were on the home page with half of the upvotes of my product, I think that helped to make them reconsider.

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    What did PH say?

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      They were really flexible and rescheduled it for me!