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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 tedmiston »

xiaoma wrote: post #156
tedmiston wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was counterintuitive to me at first, but IIRC the idea was there were too many people talking, and they wanted to have discussion driven by creators, or people with at least some amount of clout that a friend would personally refer them for comment access. It spread in/around our local accelerator here. There's a podcast episode maybe a year ago with Erik Torenberg (co-founder) where he discusses in more detail. H…

What you've described as "clout" sounds exactly the same as an old boys club. If account privileges follow a social graph, it's exclusionary to those on the margins by design.

Perhaps my word choice was off. The difference I see is that the original comment invites did not go to one common group.

For instance the person I got mine from is a mid-career technical founder in the midwest who's hard working but not rich or well known. Personally I am not yet a successful founder and have minimal connections in the Bay Area. I attributed getting it to being at the right place at the right time.

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

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Post by feedjoelpie »

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…

I've heard rumblings that people have been posting their competitors to Product Hunt before they're ready, thereby sabotaging their launch plans. What do you think can be done to avoid similar bad behavior on OpenHunt?

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

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Post by bambax »

Great idea and execution; already discovered a super-useful service, Bulk Resize Photos.

Not sure if this is a feature or a bug: when one clicks on the "comments" line, it opens a right-side panel for the current item; if one clicks another comments line, the right-side panel is updated with the new item => so far so good.

BUT, when one clicks on another item while the right-side panel is open, it doesn't update said panel; it opens a new tab to the item's website, but the panel doesn't change, so that when one comes back to OH, the panel doesn't match the last consulted item.

It's probably not an easy fix, because, what should happen when one opens more than one item?

However, since the comments pane is super simple, maybe it would make sense to open it under the corresponding item instead of to the side, so that it's visually related to the correct item instead of being in a generic location?

My 2 cents. Very cool initiative anyways.

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

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Post by nikolay »

jacquesc wrote: post #123
nikolay wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They rely on OAuth.io [0] for something trivial as Twitter auth. I'm disappointed! The limits of the free service of OAuth.io [1] are ridiculously low, too. [0] https://oauth.io/ [1] https://oauth.io/home/pricing

thank you! i thought it was twitter then your comment made me realize oauth.io was blocking us. i'm dumb for using them but it did save time (i think). we'll remove it soon and go back to a more direct oauth strategy

Thanks for taking care of this so quickly!

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

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Post by giarc »

Keats wrote: post #101
giarc wrote: post #86

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

My bad, I thought they were looking for feedback.

Sorry - reread your post. On first read it came off as one of those people that don't have facebook because it's 'cool' not to have facebook (or so they think).
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