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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

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Post by MattBearman »

I'm really happy to see this. As the solo-founder of a bootstrapped start up nowhere near Silicone Valley, things like Product Hunt can make me feel like a complete outsider.

Quick question: PH wants people to sign up with their personal Twitter account, rather than a company one, is that the case here? I never use my personal account, so would prefer to be able to sign up using @bug_muncher

Also, I love the "You reached the beginning!" message at the bottom, not sure why, but it really made me smile :)

Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

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Post by fweespeech »

minimaxir wrote: post #12
jacquesc wrote: post #2

For a bit of background: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10741827 I've been a Product Hunt user from their initial HN launch and am still a big fan. They've made a very important impact in the tech scene. Open Hunt is an honest attempt at a community run alternative, tailored to giving / getting feedback, and finding very early stage stuff. Would love your feedba…

As the chief complainer about Product Hunt, I appreciate that transparency is out front-and-center, with clear documentation on how your service aims to avoid the same pitfalls. That being said, it reminds me of another service with the same goals: Ello, who also said they were not going to take venture capital. We know how that turned out. I mentioned in the threads that a Hacker News/PH competitor may not be better…

> There's still a lot of work that needs to be done there, particularly with ranking algorithms.

Well, that is part of the value of a community/open source project, is the fact you can experiment/test various ranking algorithms rather openly without the assumption of malice/rigging.

Tbh, I think the OP has the right idea [in general] but the wrong execution. [e.g. The jab at PH in the name, rebranding after the initial influx of traffic, no clear strategy for experimentation with ranking algorithms in a crowd/open sourced manner, private comments]

I'm curious how quick they'll note the issues and address them. I considered building something but I keep running into RL related time constraints/problems that make it impossible for me to commit time before Jan. xD

Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

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Post by mod »

jacquesc wrote: post #22
andrewstuart wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just the same as google. Organic is what you have. Paid ads on the side or above - for startups who want their company name to remain in the limelight beyond their one day of organic listing. FWIW I think the name is pretty ordinary. "OpenHunt" just means "copy of ProductHunt" and "open" means nothing except to try to have a position against PH. What you have has no identity of its own.

Agreed! As mentioned in the FAQ ( http://openhunt.co/faq ), we intend to rename the site (and use the community to decide on the real name).

Take this with the caveat that I don't know much about how OSS works.

I think you should step up and make OH in your vision. This wishy-washy stuff on name, public comments, etc being up to the future community--I think you need to set the standard there, and then have it open to modification later.

Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

#54

Post by minimaxir »

secondbond wrote: post #36

Problem will be number of posts per day. There is gonna be huge number of products everyday and some gonna buried down not because of there are not good but there are not so visible - timezone problem.

This is addressed by a time-based ranking system.

Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

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Post by DarkTree »

secondbond wrote: post #36

Problem will be number of posts per day. There is gonna be huge number of products everyday and some gonna buried down not because of there are not good but there are not so visible - timezone problem.

What about a system where, if a product gets a certain amount of upvotes, it gets pinned to the top. So maybe there could be 10 or so products that get pinned to the top each day because they hit a threshold of upvotes, with the rest battling for a spot on the pinned list every day

Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

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Post by andrewstuart »

mod wrote: post #53
jacquesc wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed! As mentioned in the FAQ ( http://openhunt.co/faq ), we intend to rename the site (and use the community to decide on the real name).

Take this with the caveat that I don't know much about how OSS works. I think you should step up and make OH in your vision. This wishy-washy stuff on name, public comments, etc being up to the future community--I think you need to set the standard there, and then have it open to modification later.

I agree. There's "fixing the PH democracy issue" and then there's going to far down the "hippy free love everything is a community all decisions are joint and open and everyone's opinion counts". The hippy path is a recipe for stagnation and failure - vision is needed and decisions, not abdication of responsibility to "the community".

Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

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Post by mindcrime »

I 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...

Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

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Post by onurozkan »

nice alternative to PH, i believe its a good chance to smaller projects to be on spotlight.

why OpenHunt is good for PH;

- It will be a PH's moderation app, every nice project can be submitted by PH's trusted members. - PH can get valuable feedback from this thread. - PH can integrate every feature from OH

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