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Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers

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Re: Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers

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Post by tasoeur »

pinkmuffinere wrote: post #8

I see a new product-hunt alternative launched every couple months here. Maybe I’m cynical, but I don’t think we’re going to displace product hunt with things like new voting dynamics. They already have the network effects, so I think you’d need to make a relatively large change to stand a real chance. Edit: Here’s a proposal for a bigger change. do some free advertising for the submitted ideas. Run simple Google/yout…

Let’s go full meta and build a product hunt… but for product hunt alternatives!

Re: Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers

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Post by tdeck »

pinkmuffinere wrote: post #8

I see a new product-hunt alternative launched every couple months here. Maybe I’m cynical, but I don’t think we’re going to displace product hunt with things like new voting dynamics. They already have the network effects, so I think you’d need to make a relatively large change to stand a real chance. Edit: Here’s a proposal for a bigger change. do some free advertising for the submitted ideas. Run simple Google/yout…

Could somebody explain the appeal of browsing Product Hunt? It seems just like a subreddit where people post nothing but ads for their businesses, and I've always been a bit baffled by it. Sure if I had a SaaS to sell I'd post it there, but why is there an audience for a long list of product ads?

Re: Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers

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Post by Kkoala »

Nice, congratz on the launch!

Submitted my product for tomorrow, excited to see how it goes!

Some feedback: - Could probably benefit from adding white-space: pre-line; in a couple of places, e.g. comments to support line breaks - The encoding issue mentioned elsewhere too, stuff showing up as like ' - Launched today should maybe be a bit more prominent, but maybe it also looks better once there are more products that just one.

Re: Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers

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Post by turnsout »

pinkmuffinere wrote: post #8

I see a new product-hunt alternative launched every couple months here. Maybe I’m cynical, but I don’t think we’re going to displace product hunt with things like new voting dynamics. They already have the network effects, so I think you’d need to make a relatively large change to stand a real chance. Edit: Here’s a proposal for a bigger change. do some free advertising for the submitted ideas. Run simple Google/yout…

Maybe the bigger question is whether something like Product Hunt even needs to exist in the ecosystem. I think it had its place circa 2012–2014, but does it have any "real" users anymore? Or is it all founders and growth hackers trying to juice their launch, and an army of dummy accounts from people who sell votes?

Re: Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

theogravity wrote: post #12

I don't like that I have to comment before I can post my own product. None of the items on the page look like something I'd want to try or comment on.

Maybe everyone else is thinking the same thing about your product.

Re: Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers

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Post by havefunbesafe »

I really wish Ryan Hoover would take back the integrity of Product Hunt. It's such an amazing product with such currently painful execution, assumingly in the name of site traffic traded for ad dollars.

I truly think that the conversion rate for advertisers on PH would go UP if the quality of the site (moderated posts, comments, bot traffic) did the same.

Re: Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers

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Post by wordpad25 »

tdeck wrote: post #14
pinkmuffinere wrote: post #8

I see a new product-hunt alternative launched every couple months here. Maybe I’m cynical, but I don’t think we’re going to displace product hunt with things like new voting dynamics. They already have the network effects, so I think you’d need to make a relatively large change to stand a real chance. Edit: Here’s a proposal for a bigger change. do some free advertising for the submitted ideas. Run simple Google/yout…

Could somebody explain the appeal of browsing Product Hunt? It seems just like a subreddit where people post nothing but ads for their businesses, and I've always been a bit baffled by it. Sure if I had a SaaS to sell I'd post it there, but why is there an audience for a long list of product ads?

They are not just product ads, they are ads for NEW products.

So, the audience gets to stay on top of all the cutting edge products and services.

Re: Show HN: I built a fair alternative to Product Hunt for indie makers

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Post by theogravity »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #17
theogravity wrote: post #12

I don't like that I have to comment before I can post my own product. None of the items on the page look like something I'd want to try or comment on.

Maybe everyone else is thinking the same thing about your product.

Maybe
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