There’s something inspiring about revisiting the early days of products that went on to reshape their industries.

Take @polymarket — launched on ProductHunt back in the COVID-era of 2020.

It got just 262 upvotes, finished #16 that day, and was rated 1.6 out of 5. Wild, right? Yet today it’s one of the most talked-about prediction markets in Web3.

If you’re curious go read Shayne Coplan's original pitch — it's a time capsule.

As Steve Jobs said in his iconic Stanford speech: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backward.”

And sometimes it’s best to look all the way back to the beginning.

Democratizing access to subscriptions via subdoor.xyz and deplan.xyz | Past → bento.me/serjkorj

didn’t know about this. 

I think a very early version of aave launched on PH too. Either that or HN