How do some products get so many votes right in the first hour?

They have a community and send an email for coming see PH launch.

Yeah it really seems very fishy.

In my opinion, they get to build some sort of community on discord or on some other platforms and contact them an hour before their launch. It's really well-engineered for the top players. Nothing is "organic" if we put it that way. Actually, I don't understand this idea to pump the numbers up if nobody is buying at the end. I would be more interested to know their conversion rate in terms of actual paying customers. PH should add those stats in the mix, imho.

If they're a big company they could easily have their large team or other employees vote in the first hour. This is not mentioning they might genuinely spend months building up hype for their product with people all around the world. It's not really that surprising that bigger companies have more of an advantage even if we don't use the "they're cheating!" explanation. That being said, I would not be surprised if they're using bots as well.

1. They build an audience before the launch and 2. They share launch messages in minutes on all the platforms.