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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 nvk »

eps wrote: post #78

Getting stuck on "Completing login..." screen, with the URL of https://www.openhunt.co/login/callback - just sits there and nothing happens. Using stock iPad.

the round trip breaks with Privacy Badger, disable the first time then on again worked for me.

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

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Post by minimaxir »

drumdance wrote: post #63
minimaxir wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I don't recall Ello saying they wouldn't take capital. Do you have a link to where they said that? They did say they would not monetize users via privacy invasion like Facebook.

I double checked this now and it turns out you are correct. The verbiage Ello used was "Ad Free" and they had taken Seed prior to launching.

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

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Post by patrickaljord »

kilimchoi wrote: post #57

how do you plan to filter spammy links?

Isn't that what upvote and downvote is for? Spam gets downvoted and good products upvoted. Automatic spam detection can help too, there are plenty of tools that can help here.

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

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Post by phogster »

DanBC wrote: post #13

I'd join this. It's asking for scary permissions: > Read Tweets from your timeline. > See who you follow, and follow new people. > Update your profile. > Post Tweets for you. Please, consider adding more options, or explaining how you use those permissions. (For example, you can do what you like to my facebook wall.) EDIT: Lack of public posting is an interesting choice. It doesn't feel like much of a community. I ca…

FYI, if you, like me, quickly hit the "accept" button without reading the permissions, here's how you see and remove twitter app permissions: https://twitter.com/settings/applications

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

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Post by giarc »

Keats wrote: post #26
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…

Only twitter account means I can't login/signup (I don't have a twitter account).

Then sign up for one then. Or don't sign up for OpenHunt. It's really that easy.

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

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Post by stanleydrew »

escobar wrote: post #14
lewisl9029 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd personally like to see other account options than Twitter (specifically email-based accounts).

Agreed. Initially, I canceled the OAuth request because I thought I had missed other options, but really Twitter is the only option. I don't love that it wants to read all of my tweets. Would love to see more integrations (and I'm sure they're coming) :)

Also there's a redirect through something called https://oauth.io which I've never heard of so now I'm thinking that oauth.io has some kind of access to my Twitter account rather than openhunt.co?

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

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Post by whatever_dude »

bachmeier wrote: post #24
minimaxir wrote: post #18

Earlier 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".

It's the classical "I'm sorry you feel like this".

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

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Post by webmasterraj »

Make sure you guys get a daily newsletter going out asap. I don't have inside information, but I'd guess it drives a ton of PH's daily returnee traffic. I for one know I won't be checking this every day, but I would read something in my inbox every morning (same with PH)
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