How our 24 hour mini project got to #1 on Product Hunt

Off-Topic of the post, but reading this post was hard for me as I like to highlight text as I'm reading. This site will automatically put a little button underneath where my mouse was after highlight and thus whenever I tried to click off my highlight, it would automatically bring up this window to post whatever I'm highlighting. I know quite a few other people on HN have the same habit of highlighting text as we read, so surely I'm not the only one that found that quite annoying.

How do you even get listed on Product Hunt if you a) aren't an invited member and b) you don't get lucky like these guys did and have someone "stumble" across your page and submit it? The latter has essentially no chance of happening for most people, and the former is slightly more likely but still out of reach for most people. From what I can tell the site doesn't even offer a way to contact people that have submitted products like yours that might be interested in submitting on your behalf.

How tricky is it to get a ProductHunt invite now? Does every user only get a few invites or are invites replenished frequently?<p>I&#x27;ve heard that you can get invited by participating in the community for a while but I don&#x27;t really like the idea of having to put effort in each day in the vague hope I&#x27;ll be invited, when it&#x27;s quite possible I&#x27;ll be helping a community I&#x27;ll never be invited into.