On Thursday, Honestly did the impossible.
We grinded our way to a top spot on @ProductHunt with 10x less resources than competitors.
But we’re not done yet.
We’re 10 votes away from top #3 product of the week - help us get there (check comments)!
#producthunt#buildinpublic
Honestly is live on @ProductHunt 🚀
It’s our biggest launch ever and we’re pouring everything into it.
We’re #2 as a bootstrapped company- a YC startup with millions in funding is at #1.
If you can support, it would mean the world and show you can still win while staying lean!
be honest → you don't trust the reviews on your own website either.
when you actually want the truth about something, you do what everyone does. open a tab. type "[product] reddit." trust a stranger over a 5-star rating that was probably bought.
that exact search happens 32 billion times a year.
let that sink in → the opinion that decides your sales isn't on your site. it's in a reddit thread, a tiktok review, a comment section you've never even read.
and it's about to get worse → bots already outnumber humans online. soon "just read the comments" breaks too, because half the comments aren't people.
so the game quietly flipped.
it's not about finding opinions anymore. anyone can scrape social.
it's about proving which ones are real → human, not a bot, not a paid post.
that's the entire moat now.
the brands that win won't be the ones listening hardest → they'll be the ones who can still tell what's real.
honestly is built on exactly this.
links below 👇
https://t.co/WjLQn3J2D0
Have fought all day to achieve #1 again as a bootstrapped startup up against massive VC backed companies.
There’s still time time to achieve the biggest comeback ever on @ProductHunt , we just need the supporters who want to make history👀 @rrhoover@chrismessina@kevinwdavid
Honestly is live on @ProductHunt 🚀
It’s our biggest launch ever and we’re pouring everything into it.
We’re #2 as a bootstrapped company- a YC startup with millions in funding is at #1.
If you can support, it would mean the world and show you can still win while staying lean!
Honestly is live on @ProductHunt 🚀
It’s our biggest launch ever and we’re pouring everything into it.
We’re #2 as a bootstrapped company- a YC startup with millions in funding is at #1.
If you can support, it would mean the world and show you can still win while staying lean!
The last time we launched on @ProductHunt we hit #4 and were flown out to Korea to partner with some of the largest enterprises in the world.
As a result, I made the below video and documented a 26 day journey.
Now that we’re #1 today, I wonder what comes next👀
Nobody trusts the reviews on your website. They open a new tab and Google "[your product] reddit."
That happens 32 billion times a year — because a stranger with nothing to gain beats a 5-star rating you might've paid for.
But here's what breaks it: bots already outnumber humans online. Soon "just read the comments" stops working too.
The game isn't finding opinions anymore. It's proving which ones are real.
That's the whole moat now.
Honestly is built on exactly this 👇
https://t.co/SHhafU421q
Appreciate the support @rrhoover! Any way you can put in a good word for the @ProductHunt social media account to help us on our mission with a retweet?👀😅
Honestly is currently #1 on @ProductHunt today!
Without any funding, no fancy launch video, and working from a kitchen table, we are beating massive YC companies with bottomless wallets.
Help us stay #1 so we can show everyone that it’s possible to take on the big guys!
AI-generated content, sponsored ads, and forged reviews are making that content harder to find & verify as authentic by the day.
But with Honestly, this finally changes.
AI agents are overrunning the internet. Finding real customer opinions is getting harder by the day.
You know the feeling.
You search for what people actually think about your product.
Half the "reviews" are AI-generated. The other half are sponsored.
Real opinions are buried somewhere between bots and paid posts.
I used to spend hours scrolling Reddit threads and TikTok comments just to find the truth.
Then I found @usehonestly, which launched today on Product Hunt.
It cuts through the chaos of social media by discovering verified conversations about your product across Reddit, TikTok, X, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook - then turns them into insights your team can actually act on.
Here's what it does:
➟ Crawls every platform where real shoppers talk
➟ Verifies every opinion, removing anything that isn’t authentic
➟ Identifies customer feedback at the product level (not just brand)
➟ Surfaces trends across domestic and overseas markets
➟ Spots creators already talking about your products (unclaimed affiliates = money left on the table)
No more dashboards full of noise, just the signal that matters.
What this actually means:
✓ Fix product issues before they go viral
✓ Catch trends before your competitors to maximize social reach
✓ Recover lost revenue by onboarding creators already promoting you
32B "[product] reddit" searches per year.
90% of consumers say authenticity matters.
79% trust unpaid UGC over brand content.
The real conversation isn't on your review page anymore.
👉 Stop guessing what your customers are saying. Know it.
📌 See what social media honestly thinks about your product → https://t.co/gA6IkJw1vK
@usehonestly is live on ProductHunt right now: https://t.co/bFhW5isAJB
🔄 Repost if you've ever spent an hour scrolling Reddit just to find one honest opinion.
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#CustomerInsights #MarketResearch #UGC #AI #Honestly #ProductHunt
Honestly is launching on Product Hunt today.
Excited to hunt it and support Scott and the team.
The product helps brands find real customer conversations across Reddit, TikTok, X, YouTube and, Instagram.
Nowadays it's all AI-slop everywhere. And here helps Honestly.
If you want to understand what customers actually love, dislike, complain about, or repeatedly mention, real human conversations are becoming more valuable.
Honestly turns that signal into product insights, marketing trends, competitor weaknesses, creator opportunities, and custom reports.
Congrats to Scott and the Honestly team on the launch.