The 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.
Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
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Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
#42The 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.
This is a very good (and interesting) point. I'm looking forward to seeing the differences in the quality and type of content between open/product hunt.
Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
#43The 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'm a paying customer of about a dozen SaaS services. I'm also working on my own service. I'd use this before ProductHunt if and only if, it had better products on the homepage.
Basically, if the curation is good, I'll be there looking for improvements to my "stack".
Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
#44So who's going to be the first one to submit this to Product Hunt? :D
I does it. So meta. Much huntings. https://www.producthunt.com/tech/openhunt
Just been removed from https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming although 20 upvotes
Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
#45If you are naming it "Open Hunt", clearly as a jab at PH, you are giving it more attention than you should, given your mission, IMO.
Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
#46I like the idea. why comments are not public?
2 reasons initially: - prevent too much spam, moderation workload - encourage honest (harsh) feedback that the product owner can take action on. also if the same feedback comes in twice from 2 diff people, thats a great indicator. public comments do not allow that (since most people wont duplicate a comment if they already see someone else saying it)
> encourage honest (harsh) feedback that the product owner can take action on.
I think this is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
If there's one thing I know about "Show HN", it's that the community doesn't hold back on its criticism.
Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I does it. So meta. Much huntings. https://www.producthunt.com/tech/openhunt
Now somebody should submit ProductHunt to OpenHunt!
Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
#48Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. The only comment is a "Sorry": https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/676926628979720192 Which is to be expected, "vocal minority" and all.
That doesn't read to me as "Sorry". It's more "oh well".
Agreed - that sounds more like regret that it changes the replied-to tweet's author's perception, than it is any form of regret that Product Hunt works that way.
Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
#50So who's going to be the first one to submit this to Product Hunt? :D
I does it. So meta. Much huntings. https://www.producthunt.com/tech/openhunt
I haven't actually read Product Hunt much since this kerfuffle, but after looking at the comments on that submission:
> Interesting concept. I like emoji and GIFs, does openhunt support that? 🤔
This is a) a jerk comment since the commenter works at Product Hunt and therefore is throwing shade at a competitor's MVP-ness and b) Product Hunt is still quirky-and-randum?
This is disappointingly unprofessional.