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Early in Product Hunt’s journey we saw massive traffic spikes in Google Analytics. Although this wasn’t as good thing as you might imagine. The site was being scraped by bots. We watched our Heroku bill climb, unsure of how to address the problem. And then we spoke to our community. They weren’t scraping the site with malicious intentions. The community sought to build apps using Product Hunt’s unique data source. Instead of fighting this movement, we leaned into it and built v1 of the Product H...