I tried building something similar on https://techendo.com I'm working on a refactor right now that serves a very cool experience. You can still sign up and give me some feedback.
Let's Create a Better Product Hunt
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Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt
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...I'm learning to code...(sound of pitchforks rustling)
For anything early enough such as an MVP, you will be utterly useless. You need a programmer. However a programmer really doesn't need you.
Ryan Hoover didn't know how to code. Product Hunt literally started as an e-mail list because of that, and the rest is history.
Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt
#63I tried building something similar on https://techendo.com I'm working on a refactor right now that serves a very cool experience. You can still sign up and give me some feedback.
Hell, I'll even open source the entire thing so we can build it as a community.
Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt
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...I'm learning to code...(sound of pitchforks rustling)
For anything early enough such as an MVP, you will be utterly useless. You need a programmer. However a programmer really doesn't need you.
This may or may not be true, but we should be more accepting of people who want to start companies rather than simply telling them they are not necessary.
Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt
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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.
But there's practically zero popular reddit's that are ok with people promoting their own products.
What about /r/startup and /r/startups?
Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt
#66I keep seeing these references to money raised in the business it's not, especially not in the San Francisco area.
At $6 million you can hire and pay for about 10 to 15 people for a few years at a competitive salary and work from a not completely terrible office.
I'd like it if these posts weren't spreading "$N Millions of dollars!" fud so much as if it were some terrible wasteful thing. This is not someone's personal spending money that they're buying maseratis with, the founders do not get to use this money to buy themselves nice cars. It's not a life changing event, it's simply an opportunity to build a business.
Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt
#67Why was this `[Dead]`, preventing people from commenting? High level of irony on that.
Not sure. A thread with many comments should basically never be [dead].
I think it was a bug squeezed out of the woodwork by unprecedented pressure from flags doing battle with vouches. We've overridden it.
Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt
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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)
Would you say that about angel list too? I'm as much annoyed as you about their opaqueness and it would be nice if they were more transparent but it is what it is. It's your responsibility as an entrepreneur to make sure you don't mess up the launch of something you've invested so much in.
Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt
#69I keep seeing these references to money raised in the business it's not, especially not in the San Francisco area. At $6 million you can hire and pay for about 10 to 15 people for a few years at a competitive salary and work from a not completely terrible office. I'd like it if these posts weren't spreading "$N Millions of dollars!" fud so much as if it were some terrible wasteful thing. This is not someone's persona…
10 to 15 people for a few years seems like quite a lot for a 'business' like PH.
Re: Let's Create a Better Product Hunt
#70I'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'm guessing you've looked into http://www.telescopeapp.org/ ?
If not, I'd really recommend you do so and also learn some Meteor.js. It's great for beginners.