You're #1 on Hacker News and Product Hunt today with an app whose repo was created 12 days ago and your server is not down. That's commendable in itself.
Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
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#152Good ideas in retrospect always seem so obvious at the time. Love the idea OP.
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#153This is pretty cool - I notice you're building on top of Rails. Do consider using the source code of lobste.rs (which is like HN but open source). It has quite a bit if community development behind it and I daresay can be quickly adapted into the product hunt model.
https://github.com/jcs/lobsters
I'm trying to build in elasticsearch support in lobsters for a personal project - it currently uses sphinx. But it could be pretty cool if you can use that as a starting point.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, I did. And they didn't respond nor grant access: https://twitter.com/statusgator/status/582633562559512576
Ever other maker account I've seen has been a personal account not a company account.
I'm confused -- This is a correct statement! If you disagree, it'd be more productive to provide a counterexample than downvote unknowingly.
(Or examine the maker accounts on the front page of PH...)
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#155I will definitely use this over ProductHunt. I mean, for crying out loud, I signed up for PH just now to leave a comment and the first thing you get is "commenting is restricted to those users invited by others in the community". Yeah, so I have to supplicate myself to some random Internet stranger and beg permission just to comment on your site? Not happening...
I signed up for Product Hunt more than a year ago and still do not have commenting access. My product was submitted by someone and featured even! And I wasn't able to respond or interact with the "community" in any way.
I've had the exact same experience. Still cannot comment to this day.
I simply stopped visiting months ago when I realized I was never going to be allowed to participate in the site.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would that work? I feel much less inclined to visit a site where only those in the old boy's club get to speak.
It was counterintuitive to me at first, but IIRC the idea was there were too many people talking, and they wanted to have discussion driven by creators, or people with at least some amount of clout that a friend would personally refer them for comment access. It spread in/around our local accelerator here. There's a podcast episode maybe a year ago with Erik Torenberg (co-founder) where he discusses in more detail. H…
What you've described as "clout" sounds exactly the same as an old boys club. If account privileges follow a social graph, it's exclusionary to those on the margins by design.
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#157I will definitely use this over ProductHunt. I mean, for crying out loud, I signed up for PH just now to leave a comment and the first thing you get is "commenting is restricted to those users invited by others in the community". Yeah, so I have to supplicate myself to some random Internet stranger and beg permission just to comment on your site? Not happening...
that's exactly why I don't use PH.
The funny is this product doesn't have public comments too...
It only goes to the owner.
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#158The idea is nice, but cynical me can't escape the idea that Product Hunt is successful in part because it is a mirror of reality, where capital and connections are the reigning currency. If you create a platform where capital and connections are deprioritized, you will not attract the people who have that in real life, making it less useful as a promotion venue.
I'd be inclined to constantly reevaluate - if not outright resist - this impulse if I were you, lest you inadvertently allow huge opportunities to pass you by because they didn't have the cachet to signal "capital and connections".
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#159What platform are you using behind this?
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#160Will ProductHunt shutdown OpenHunt with power of law?