Product Hunt started surfacing during the previous Y Combinator batch because founders told each other to upvote their products.
Er, on most link aggregator websites, that's supporting a breach in integrity, not a "we'll give you $120k seed money" event.
It's worth noting that this behavior is explicitly punished on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7972941) and will get you banned extremely quickly from Reddit.
This also leads to a massive conflict of interest for any YC products that are posted to Product Hunt in the future.
Er, on most link aggregator websites, that's supporting a breach in integrity, not a "we'll give you $120k seed money" event.
It's worth noting that this behavior is explicitly punished on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7972941) and will get you banned extremely quickly from Reddit.
This also leads to a massive conflict of interest for any YC products that are posted to Product Hunt in the future.