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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 fuck_google »

andrewstuart wrote: post #23
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).

Can't say I see the value in this. You're right now getting possibly the biggest traffic kickstart from HN with a name that you're planning to drop - you have a plan to waste all that branding potential. Also I don't see any upside in asking the community to come up with a name - you fixed the democracy problem with PH, you don't need to become community obsessed to the point of not being able to make important decis…

If the name works, why change it? There is nothing wrong in positioning a product/service against a closed alternative. OpenOffice for instance seems to have worked well as a name.

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

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Post by jacquesc »

unclebucknasty wrote: post #139

It seems that one problem with a purely community-driven site like Open Hunt is that the overwhelming majority of people are interested in publishing to it vs. consuming from it. Sure, you might browse it to see if anything there is interesting, but most of the enthusiasm will come from those seeking a channel for their product. Hence, the audience itself vs the publisher set is limited in comparison to "that other s…

100% agree that this is a problem. And no silver bullet solution. Product Hunt actually took a perfectly reasonable approach to this (heavy curation), but Open Hunt exists in order to try to tackle the problem using a different path.

We have some ideas on it already. Possibly some sort of queuing system where you can schedule it to post in the future, with a # of slots reserved every day for the queued up in advance ones.

But this topic will take a lot of discussion, and we're hoping we can get lots of different opinions on the matter before deciding on a course.

In the meantime, pure voting should bring the best products to the top, in a daily list. We'll also give products a chance to resubmit after a certain period of time.

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

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Post by wslh »

mindcrime wrote: post #59

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...

I love these threads thrashing Product Hunt, it is an abortion of nature, elitist, suffocating echo chamber, and a place that clashes with the basics principles of Internet. Sites that started elitist, like Facebook at Harvard, opened to the world audience to empower the platform.

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

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Post by t3ra »

PH team's reactions must be like :

Day 0 : Yeah other 'PH is crap' HN/blog/medium post

Day 2 : Oh so someone 'anonymous' is building a competitor.. They are having a Google form.. How noobish

Today : haha Oh look they copied our design . how original

Future : oh we need to pivot

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