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Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

mladenkovacevic wrote: post #21
funkyy wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not for small startup that cries for early adopters...

But I don't think PH is good for early adopters at all... Unless your product is directly aimed at startup founders or angels and VCs. For anything else, you'll get the ultimate cross section of tire kickers - people trying out hundreds of products for 5 minutes with the question "what can I copy here" or "can I invest in this". If you're after loyal users chances are PH does nothing for you.

Unless your product is directly aimed at ... angels and VCs

If you want a "rocketship" then you pretty much have to be to compete.

Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt

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Post by touchofevil »

codesushi42 wrote: post #36
touchofevil wrote: post #20

I'm working on a Product Hunt competitor at the moment and I'm looking for a technical co-founder. If anyone is interested, please email or DM me on twitter.

I have no idea whether this is satire or you're being serious. +1

"I'm always serious." - Dr. Egon Spengler

Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt

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Post by volaski »

msravi wrote: post #39
volaski wrote: post #24

The problem with these criticism is that they seem to be coming from people who have no idea how Product Hunt works. If you have ever actually had your product featured on PH you would know better than this. Here's how Product Hunt works: 1. There are many of those so called "Insider" users. 2. Then there is a 2nd tier group of users who can comment. 3. Then there's the rest. The tier 1 group is not as small as you t…

Then perhaps PH should be more forthcoming about this hidden "process" and educate the "people who have no idea how Product Hunt works"?

Just a simple google search will show you tons of articles and blog posts giving you more than enough tips really. People complaining about this just shows that they didn't do their homework before submitting.

Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt

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Post by touchofevil »

sergiotapia wrote: post #34
touchofevil wrote: post #20

I'm working on a Product Hunt competitor at the moment and I'm looking for a technical co-founder. If anyone is interested, please email or DM me on twitter.

Are you an idea guy, or actually working on the code as well?

...I'm learning to code...(sound of pitchforks rustling)

Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt

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Post by prawn »

krapp wrote: post #9
l33tbro wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? I think the Reddit model works pretty well. It's based on (as far we know) organic upvotes from users. It's also engineered so it makes it very difficult to game with upvote brigades and such.

That's a decent argument for just building a subreddit.

Have you seen r/startups?

Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt

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Post by sillysaurus3 »

Alex3917 wrote: post #40
benologist wrote: post #25

helps startups get their 15 minutes and puts them onto the path of success. Has there ever been a startup whose success was because of a PH/HN/Reddit submission?

Dropbox got into YC because of their Show HN submission, and they got a lot of their early users from Digg.

Not really. Dropbox got into YC for the same reason they beat all ~11 established competitors: They executed very well on a good idea.

Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt

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Post by minimaxir »

volaski wrote: post #43
msravi wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then perhaps PH should be more forthcoming about this hidden "process" and educate the "people who have no idea how Product Hunt works"?

Just a simple google search will show you tons of articles and blog posts giving you more than enough tips really. People complaining about this just shows that they didn't do their homework before submitting.

Ideally you shouldn't have to do homework before using the basic functions of a website. (aside from reading Terms and Conditions, of course)

Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt

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Post by davnicwil »

Alex3917 wrote: post #4

I don't think this is going to work. First, ProductHunt and HN are both basically fine as is. Second, the root cause of any issues that both have is basically the same -- almost no one reads or votes on stories from the new page, and the handful that do have all sorts of biases. The reason these communities are able to function despite this is that they have a combination of paid staff and trusted volunteers. Third,…

> Third, the only way to significantly improve upon these sorts of communities would be to build them on the block chain

Genuinely interested, if you have the time, what do you mean by this? What problems could be solved by building a community website on top of a blockchain, instead of the current typical votes/comments in a database -> feed sorted by ranking algorithm method, and how?

Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt

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Post by joeblau »

tim333 wrote: post #45

I just put up http://productvote.co Just a Meteor Telescope app on Heroku at the moment. Any thoughts?

The technology it's built on is irrelevant. What makes Product Hunt is the community and the way Ryan and his team curate products. They surface the "best" products (based on their curated opinion) and that's what generates the following. Your site looks good, but are you willing to put 2 years of manually curating and scraping for products until you're successful?
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