For business-related products, it's also helpful to gain exposure in the industries you're in. For instance, if you're launching a product that might serve both the healthcare and legal sectors, any type of exposure there not only proves legitimacy for potential customers, but to investors as well.
Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
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Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Product Hunt started with my startup friends -- mostly guys, not dissimilar from Silicon Valley in general. You're absolutely right that Product Hunt needs more gender diversity and it's something we're working on. This topic has been on my mind well before it came up in a recent thread on PH ( http://www.producthunt.com/posts/made-with-code ). Erik and I spent the last few weeks emailing dozens of women in the commu…
Open it up to everyone, that's how you can make it more inclusive. edit: The invite-only thing is incredibly lame. I signed up a few minutes ago to see what product hunt was all about because it was being discussed in this thread (never heard of it before). I doubt I'll lose any sleep over forgetting its existence.
That's a great point. So many sites - including TC/VB - are the same folks all the time. And they might be keeping up with startup news, but they aren't potential end users.
Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
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A good rule of thumb with Hacker News is that you get 90-100 unique visitors for every upvote on a post given that it hits the front page. (as someone whose blog has hit the top of HN multiple times, I can attest to this) The app received 6100 hits with 76 HN points, so that's a good estimate. I'm not a fan of Product Hunt because it's an echo chamber personified. It's what happened to Quora, and I don't think that s…
I mod /r/SideProject, which is a subreddit similar to Product Hunt. Do you have any recommendations on how to prevent the subreddit from turning into an echo chamber? http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject
I think that much of it comes down to community management. (e.g. preventing trolls from taking over, continuing discussion threads)
Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
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I'm not a fan of Product Hunt because it's an echo chamber personified. It's what happened to Quora, and I don't think that strategy will work twice. Here here. I think Product Hunt is interesting to look at once in a while to see what others think is hot, but I hate the closed nature of it. There's no obvious way to get selected to make submissions or comments. In fact, when I read Carlos Bueno's post on QZ, the fir…
The way to get selected to submit or comment appears to be ryans buddy or that buddies buddy. Its a really misogynistic way to do it and minoritys and women seem to be under represented. I am sure if he chimed in here, he would say something along the lines of "We are super excited to open it up to everyone but want to do things correctly and not hurt the quality! With that in mind we are only letting a few people in…
"The way to get selected to submit or comment appears to be ryans buddy or that buddies buddy. Its a really misogynistic way to do it and minoritys and women seem to be under represented."
Quick anecdote to rebut this, I was 'selected' to submit.
I don't know Ryan, other than I know who he is. I don't know anyone that knows Ryan (I don't think). Like pretty much everyone reading this comment, I am pretty sure he has no idea who I am. I follow him on Twitter, he doesn't follow me.
I was 'selected' because I hit Ryan up on Twitter with a quick link to our product, he took a look and decided it was interesting enough for PH, so gave me permission to submit. It was that simple.
Granted, I certainly don't tick any diversity boxes, but I think it would be a stretch to suggest that my ethnicity, gender, or sexuality had anything to do with my selection.
For transparency, here is the conversation that lead to my 'selection': https://twitter.com/phixx/status/469208498597679105
And here is the outcome: http://www.producthunt.com/posts/alleyoop
Disclaimer: I like shiny new things, and PH scratches that itch for me.
Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
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> to be ryans buddy or that buddies buddy. Its a really misogynistic way to do it That's an odd way to say that; are you trying to say that nepotism in general is inherently misogynistic in some way? I mean, sure, Ryan's buddies are straight white dudes because Ryan is a straight white dude, and people tend to make friends with people they share culture with. But if Ryan was a gay black lady, nepotism wouldn't someho…
Ryan is a straight white dude, and people tend to make friends with people they share culture with. Diversity is a cultural trait.
For some.
Re: Show HN vs. TechCrunch vs. Product Hunt: what's most effective to launch a product
#76Just like to add my two cents.
I'm the little guy in the story. 300 followers on twitter, only just starting to develop a name for myself.
I launched theNews ios (http://bit.ly/thenews-ios) recently which basically lets you read Hacker News & designer news in one app.
You'd think that would go down well in HN but nope, it faded into the bowels of HN & im not surprised. There is so much content due to how "open" it is.
Meanwhile people auctually took notice of my app on PH & DN because u dont't entirely need points to be relevant due to the moderate number of submissions. Frankly a better system for the little guy.
Show HN has its place for hacks & product launches while PH is like a brilliant way to launch your product & get feedback from amazing people that you look up to
& i don't think PH is tryna be like Show HN, it's doing its own thing. giving its own spin on Show HN.
All communities can't be open & frnakly the number of products on PH is already overwhelming at its current amount & with more its only gonna get more where it just becomes impossible to keep up. Thats probably the biggest challenge PH faces.
it's a nice alternative to Show HN & will shine in a different way.