Comment by codegeek

There are 3 types of people that are active on Product Hunt:

1. Promoters who just like being there and upvote "cool" things. Or they were asked by "a friend" to come and upvote the post.

2. Users of the potential tool. They could use the tool but don't have real power to buy.

3. Actual potential buyers.

#3 is mostly non-existent on PH especially for dev tools.