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Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021

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Re: Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021

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Post by WJW »

> Those who have paid even passing attention to modern productivity software will recognize the language and aim of Agenda, a project from more than 30 years ago, and therefore the broad endeavor of saving time, breaking silos, and endlessly iterating on what essentially amounts to the same few products, over and over, decade after decade.

Despite the posted title, this article is really about productivity apps and the people who use them. For each new app, they hope that this one will finally be the one that magically makes them "productive" where all the previous ones have failed. It then goes on to speculate on why they would do so and subsequently veers off into tangents on bullshit jobs, the role of middle managers in startups and (through a somewhat tortured metaphor of gaming as self-actualization) the role of leisure in the modern economy.

Fun article but not really about product hunt after the first few paragraphs.

Re: Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021

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Post by 3D30497420 »

treyfitty wrote: post #2

I can’t scroll on iOS safari.

The site appears to implement a custom scrollbar with the Vuescroll package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vuescroll

Which is nuts for a simple article page like this (and almost any other use case really). Just leave the native components as they are, especially scrolling.

Re: Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021

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Post by thaw45645624312 »

Apologies for the unrelated comment, but as someone with origins in Belarus, I find it absolutely gutting and disheartening when people see the country’s name (in this case, on a chart), overlook it, and lump it together with some generalized notion of “Ukraine and Russia.” These are three distinct cultures, three separate nations. Sorry, I have no intention of sparking a debate or political argument, just expressing the exasperation.

Re: Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021

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Post by bloomingkales »

WJW wrote: post #11

> Those who have paid even passing attention to modern productivity software will recognize the language and aim of Agenda, a project from more than 30 years ago, and therefore the broad endeavor of saving time, breaking silos, and endlessly iterating on what essentially amounts to the same few products, over and over, decade after decade. Despite the posted title, this article is really about productivity apps and t…

Fun article but not really about product hunt after the first few paragraphs.

Mind fuck - product hunt is not about product hunting either.

It’s spec work. It’s not super clear that’s what it is, but the specs given to you on product hunt are the current zeitgeist. Whether you like it or not, you will build your apps for this hivemind and not for any real problem space.

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Post by jeanlucas »

thaw45645624312 wrote: post #15

Apologies for the unrelated comment, but as someone with origins in Belarus, I find it absolutely gutting and disheartening when people see the country’s name (in this case, on a chart), overlook it, and lump it together with some generalized notion of “Ukraine and Russia.” These are three distinct cultures, three separate nations. Sorry, I have no intention of sparking a debate or political argument, just expressing…

The geography data seems very amateur, to be polite.

Re: Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021

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Post by BoxFour »

thaw45645624312 wrote: post #15

Apologies for the unrelated comment, but as someone with origins in Belarus, I find it absolutely gutting and disheartening when people see the country’s name (in this case, on a chart), overlook it, and lump it together with some generalized notion of “Ukraine and Russia.” These are three distinct cultures, three separate nations. Sorry, I have no intention of sparking a debate or political argument, just expressing…

Slovakia and Estonia too get lumped in with Ukraine and Russia.

I assume they meant "Ukraine and Russia" as a synonym for "eastern Europe" as a whole, but it is a bit dismissive.

Re: Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021

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Post by lm28469 »

thaw45645624312 wrote: post #15

Apologies for the unrelated comment, but as someone with origins in Belarus, I find it absolutely gutting and disheartening when people see the country’s name (in this case, on a chart), overlook it, and lump it together with some generalized notion of “Ukraine and Russia.” These are three distinct cultures, three separate nations. Sorry, I have no intention of sparking a debate or political argument, just expressing…

I think you're all reading way too much into it. Russia and Ukraine are both in the top of both charts, the others aren't.

Belarus people are fine, the Belarus government has been horrible for a long time, it's not that surprising that people have a bad opinion of the country. And it doesn't look like it's going to get any better: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russias-quiet-...

All the people from Belarus I know fled and will never go back, they have parents and friends who've been jailed for facebook likes, family members tortured, &c.

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