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Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
- sideproject 11y agoFor those who would like to launch their own version of HN or PH, would love for you to check out HelloBox - something we've been working on for awhile. https://www.hellobox.co https://www.hellobox.co [Now that I think about it, I should put this on the OpenHunt!]
- jacquesc 11y agoFor a bit of background: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10741827 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 feedback!
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- lewisl9029 11y agoI'd personally like to see other account options than Twitter (specifically email-based accounts).
- escobar 11y agoAgreed. Initially, I canceled the OAuth request because I thought I had missed other options, but really Twitter is the only option. I don't love that it wants to read all of my tweets. Would love to see more integrations (and I'm sure they're coming) :)
- stanleydrew 11y agoAlso there's a redirect through something called https://oauth.io https://oauth.io which I've never heard of so now I'm thinking that oauth.io has some kind of access to my Twitter account rather than openhunt.co?
- jacquesc 11y agoWe use oauth.io as a hosted service to handle to interchange. I've been using them for years and believe them to be trustworthy. It probably makes sense to switch off them in due time (since it's just one more dependency). But it allowed us to launch fast. I'll create a github issue to track this.
- andrewstuart 11y agoDid Ryan Hoover ever respond to all the negative sentiment about PH?
- minimaxir 11y agoNo. The only comment is a "Sorry": https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/676926628979720192 https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/676926628979720192 Which is to be expected, "vocal minority" and all.
- bachmeier 11y agoThat doesn't read to me as "Sorry". It's more "oh well".
- OJFord 11y agoAgreed - that sounds more like regret that it changes the replied-to tweet's author's perception, than it is any form of regret that Product Hunt works that way.
- whatever_dude 11y agoIt's the classical "I'm sorry you feel like this".
- minimaxir 11y agoAs the chief complainer about Product Hunt, I appreciate that transparency is out front-and-center, with clear documentation on how your service aims to avoid the same pitfalls. That being said, it reminds me of another service with the same goals: Ello, who also said they were not going to take venture capital. We know how that turned out. I mentioned in the threads that a Hacker News/PH competitor may not be better mechanically. There's still a lot of work that needs to be done there, particularly with ranking algorithms.
- jacquesc 11y agoIf it gets to the point where it needs revenue to handle the hosting bill, it'll be organized as a non-profit and the community will decide how to handle things (via ads or whatever else).
- nl 11y agoPersonally - as feedback - I don't have problems with it being a for profit company.
- fweespeech 11y ago> There's still a lot of work that needs to be done there, particularly with ranking algorithms. Well, that is part of the value of a community/open source project, is the fact you can experiment/test various ranking algorithms rather openly without the assumption of malice/rigging. Tbh, I think the OP has the right idea [in general] but the wrong execution. [e.g. The jab at PH in the name, rebranding after the initial influx of traffic, no clear strategy for experimentation with ranking algorithms in a crowd/open sourced manner, private comments] I'm curious how quick they'll note the issues and address them. I considered building something but I keep running into RL related time constraints/problems that make it impossible for me to commit time before Jan. xD
- drumdance 11y agoI don't recall Ello saying they wouldn't take capital. Do you have a link to where they said that? They did say they would not monetize users via privacy invasion like Facebook.
- Keats 11y agoOnly twitter account means I can't login/signup (I don't have a twitter account).
- giarc 11y agoThen sign up for one then. Or don't sign up for OpenHunt. It's really that easy.
- Keats 11y agoMy bad, I thought they were looking for feedback.
- knicholes 11y agoWhy twitter, though? It doesn't look like twitter is doing too well recently.
- funkyy 11y agoOr instead of forcing users add Facebook, Google and LinkedIn if you want for people to use social login. You can always use one of the social login api like OneAll.
- feedjoelpie 11y agoI'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?
- pibefision 11y agoI like the idea. why comments are not public?
- jacquesc 11y ago2 reasons initially: - prevent too much spam, moderation workload - encourage honest (harsh) feedback that the product owner can take action on. also if the same feedback comes in twice from 2 diff people, thats a great indicator. public comments do not allow that (since most people wont duplicate a comment if they already see someone else saying it)
- minimaxir 11y agoThose are both very bad reasons for making commenting private. 1. A downvote system is sufficient to catch spammers, with explicitly moderation needed for edge cases. (And those edge cases would be applicable even in private commenting) 2. Harsh feedback is discouraged on Product Hunt because of the elitism. Having comments public will not discourage it. (C.f. Hacker News)
- jacquesc 11y agooops, i forgot to mention the real reason: lack of time for v1 :) adding a real commenting system is on the table for sure, ill create a github issue for it and we can discuss with the community about pros/cons
- livejamie 11y agoComments are one of the main ways you're going to foster a community. An alternative would be to allow comments to be shown privately or to have a messaging/mail system. Hiding them by default is a big mistake.
- jacquesc 11y agoagreed, we'll be adding public comments to the site soon (in addition to private feedback)
- andrewstuart 11y agoIt should have paid as well as organic otherwise there's no business model and it's just a small rebellion that might be abandoned for lack of income.
- jacquesc 11y agoThanks for the feedback. Can you elaborate? We'd like to build something sustainable, and to start that just means building the community. Monetization concerns would be an open question that I think the community could decide on later. Would love to learn more about what you have in mind.
- andrewstuart 11y agoJust the same as google. Organic is what you have. Paid ads on the side or above - for startups who want their company name to remain in the limelight beyond their one day of organic listing. FWIW I think the name is pretty ordinary. "OpenHunt" just means "copy of ProductHunt" and "open" means nothing except to try to have a position against PH. What you have has no identity of its own.
- jacquesc 11y agoAgreed! As mentioned in the FAQ (http://openhunt.co/faq http://openhunt.co/faq), we intend to rename the site (and use the community to decide on the real name).
- andrewstuart 11y agoCan'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 decisions on your own, plus the downside of the time it will take. In your shoes I'd get a new name in as soon as humanly possible and even right now whilst this wave of traffic comes in from HN.
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- DanBC 11y agoI'd join this. It's asking for scary permissions: > Read Tweets from your timeline. > See who you follow, and follow new people. > Update your profile. > Post Tweets for you. Please, consider adding more options, or explaining how you use those permissions. (For example, you can do what you like to my facebook wall.) EDIT: Lack of public posting is an interesting choice. It doesn't feel like much of a community. I can see that public comments risks undue negativity or aggressive feedback.
- jacquesc 11y agoOops, that's a mistake. We meant to do read only. Fixing now
- _nate_ 11y agoCan we create an account without twitter or FB in general?
- jacquesc 11y agoyep, that's definitely on the table. its a community run project, so please add a github issue and we can start the discussion about pros/cons
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- DanBC 11y agoCool, thank you!
- andersonmvd 11y agoLooks fixed now
- phogster 11y agoFYI, if you, like me, quickly hit the "accept" button without reading the permissions, here's how you see and remove twitter app permissions: https://twitter.com/settings/applications https://twitter.com/settings/applications
- mmohebbi 11y agoYou should take a look at lobsters. They solve a lot of the transparency issues that some have with HN and ProductHunt. "Some other link aggregation sites are operated by corporate entities which may have significant financial incentive to censor or artificially promote the links and discussion that relate to those entities, their investments, or their competitors. Some of these sites have had moderators of popular sub-forums banned after it became known that they were being paid by 3rd party companies seeking special treatment of their submitted stories. All moderator actions on this site are visible to everyone and the identities of those moderators are made public. While the individual actions of a moderator may cause debate, there should be no question about which moderator it was or whether they had an ulterior motive for those actions. All user voting and story ranking on this site uses a universal algorithm and does not artificially penalize or prioritize users or domains. Per-tag hotness modifiers do affect all stories with those tags, but these modifiers are made public and usually used to shorten the life of meta-discussions. If certain domains have to be banned from being submitted due to spam, the list will be made publicly available. If users are disruptive enough to warrant banning, they will be banned absolutely, given notice of their banning, and their disabled user profile will indicate which moderator banned them and why. There will be no hidden or childish "shadow banning" or "hellbanning" of users popular on some other sites. The source code to this site is made available under a 3-clause BSD license for viewing, auditing, forking, or contributing to. This code is always up to date with what is running in production on this website. Public stats are available for site requests, comments submitted, stories submitted, and users created." https://lobste.rs/about https://lobste.rs/about https://lobste.rs/moderations https://lobste.rs/moderations
- minimaxir 11y agoGranted, the "sign up by invitation" policy also is the primary reason why Product Hunt has become such an elitist club. Using an invite-system to counteract that would be self-defeating.
- danielrakh 11y agoSo who's going to be the first one to submit this to Product Hunt? :D
- donfrancisco 11y agoI does it. So meta. Much huntings. https://www.producthunt.com/tech/openhunt https://www.producthunt.com/tech/openhunt
- mindcrime 11y agoNow somebody should submit ProductHunt to OpenHunt!
- OJFord 11y agohttps://www.openhunt.co/#open=product-hunt https://www.openhunt.co/#open=product-hunt
- nicolasMLV 11y agoJust been removed from https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming although 20 upvotes
- asnyder 11y agoIt's now on the main home.
- minimaxir 11y agoI haven't actually read Product Hunt much since this kerfuffle, but after looking at the comments on that submission: > Interesting concept. I like emoji and GIFs, does openhunt support that? 🤔 <food.gif> This is a) a jerk comment since the commenter works at Product Hunt and therefore is throwing shade at a competitor's MVP-ness and b) Product Hunt is still quirky-and-randum? This is disappointingly unprofessional.
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- Cyberdog 11y agoCould you please make the description text darker for each listing? Light gray text is very hard to read against a white background.
- jacquesc 11y agoAgreed! tracked via https://github.com/OpenHunting/openhunt/issues/33 https://github.com/OpenHunting/openhunt/issues/33
- mckee1 11y agoWhere is the feedback shown? I have submitted "Too" and it says one person has left feedback but I can't see it anywhere (I am logged in with the account that submitted).
- jacquesc 11y agoSince anyone can submit a product (not necessarily their own), we are adding a verification step (email to [any]@yourdomain.com). We'll have other verification steps as well to make those feedback items available.
- secondbond 11y agoProblem will be number of posts per day. There is gonna be huge number of products everyday and some gonna buried down not because of there are not good but there are not so visible - timezone problem.
- minimaxir 11y agoThis is addressed by a time-based ranking system.
- DarkTree 11y agoWhat about a system where, if a product gets a certain amount of upvotes, it gets pinned to the top. So maybe there could be 10 or so products that get pinned to the top each day because they hit a threshold of upvotes, with the rest battling for a spot on the pinned list every day
- free2rhyme214 11y agoAwesome!
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- mrnismo92 11y ago1) This is pretty cool 2) I think this and Product Hunt can co-exist 3) I'm interested in learning about how other members think Open Hunt can go from "open community" to "sustainable community"?
- msvan 11y agoThe idea is nice, but cynical me can't escape the idea that Product Hunt is successful in part because it is a mirror of reality, where capital and connections are the reigning currency. If you create a platform where capital and connections are deprioritized, you will not attract the people who have that in real life, making it less useful as a promotion venue.
- nbrempel 11y agoThis is a very good (and interesting) point. I'm looking forward to seeing the differences in the quality and type of content between open/product hunt.
- auston 11y agoI'm a paying customer of about a dozen SaaS services. I'm also working on my own service. I'd use this before ProductHunt if and only if, it had better products on the homepage. Basically, if the curation is good, I'll be there looking for improvements to my "stack".
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- frogpelt 11y agoI think you're right. I guess the opposite of a curated list is a list that can be spammed by anyone.
- slg 11y agoAnd maybe it is the cynical contrarian in me, but I think the "real world" aspect of Product Hunt it what turned me off of the site before these issues even came to the forefront. It always seemed like an echo chamber were everyone was putting up a facade. Users seemed more concerned with the people behind products and networking with them than actually offering opinions of what was posted. I find the more internet-like communities more natural. Sure, the top comment on a Show HN is often a critique. However I find that more interesting than the usual "Wow, another great product from John Developer. Signing up now." or the "Wow, great product. Here is why you should use the competing product that I work on." that you usually see on Product Hunt.
- goodJobWalrus 11y agoIf you are naming it "Open Hunt", clearly as a jab at PH, you are giving it more attention than you should, given your mission, IMO.
- giarc 11y agoFAQ states that Open Hunt is just temporary. Probably to draw people in.
- goodJobWalrus 11y agoDuly noted.
- MattBearman 11y agoI'm really happy to see this. As the solo-founder of a bootstrapped start up nowhere near Silicone Valley, things like Product Hunt can make me feel like a complete outsider. Quick question: PH wants people to sign up with their personal Twitter account, rather than a company one, is that the case here? I never use my personal account, so would prefer to be able to sign up using @bug_muncher Also, I love the "You reached the beginning!" message at the bottom, not sure why, but it really made me smile :)
- toni 11y agoCan you please add a RSS feed?
- kilimchoi 11y agohow do you plan to filter spammy links?
- patrickaljord 11y agoIsn't that what upvote and downvote is for? Spam gets downvoted and good products upvoted. Automatic spam detection can help too, there are plenty of tools that can help here.
- mindcrime 11y agoI 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...
- http-teapot 11y agoI share the exact same feeling. Signed on PH months ago to drop a comment and never got "approved". I wish comments were public on OpenHunt.co so I can take part in the conversation.
- mindcrime 11y agoI wish comments were public on OpenHunt.co so I can take part in the conversation. Yeah, that would be nice. I mean, I can see the value in "direct to the product owner" comments, but some venue for public discussion would also be nice.
- intrasight 11y agoYou can come here for that
- davegonzalez 11y agoA game I had helped develop made #1 a few weeks back. I wanted to comment on it and say thanks but ran into the same error message. Kind of strange that you have to request permission to comment, even if you have an account.
- tedmiston 11y agoRestricting commenting was one way they were trying to get more readers.
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- onurozkan 11y agonice alternative to PH, i believe its a good chance to smaller projects to be on spotlight. why OpenHunt is good for PH; - It will be a PH's moderation app, every nice project can be submitted by PH's trusted members. - PH can get valuable feedback from this thread. - PH can integrate every feature from OH
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoI signed up and submitted actually. I am curious, why are comments/feedback all hidden? I would certainly like to read those - even if they are made anonymous.
- return0 11y agoI find myself using it already - great job! Edit: The subtitle font is way too washed out. i struggle to read it. Also some submissions are not "products" - is that appropriate?
- eecks 11y agoDisappointed by the twitter only sign up but I am still going to join because I like the idea.
- mindcrime 11y agoAnd just to make things even more meta: https://www.reddit.com/r/openhunt/ https://www.reddit.com/r/openhunt/ (If somebody affiliated with OpenHunt wants control of that sub, just message me).
- eecks 11y agoWithout comments it doesn't feel like a community
- jacquesc 11y agoAgreed. We'll probably add comments (in addition to private feedback for product owners). Just need a bit of time. Maybe by monday? ;)
- eecks 11y agoAwesome
- ben1040 11y agoI've had a PH account for 7 or 8 months and have yet to be permitted to comment, so zero difference to me here.
- eecks 11y agoReading comments is good too
- eps 11y agoGetting stuck on "Completing login..." screen, with the URL of https://www.openhunt.co/login/callback https://www.openhunt.co/login/callback - just sits there and nothing happens. Using stock iPad.
- jacquesc 11y agoSorry, looks like a bug. I'll log it in github issues and try to repro. Can you email me at jacques@openhunt.co? I'll reach out with questions if I hit snags trying to repro it. Thanks for the heads up!
- nvk 11y agothe round trip breaks with Privacy Badger, disable the first time then on again worked for me.
- withoutfriction 11y agoPlease fix the modal on mobile -- ios9 it seems impossible to get rid of the modal :)
- jacquesc 11y agofixing this ASAP. thanks for the heads up tracked via https://github.com/OpenHunting/openhunt/issues/13 https://github.com/OpenHunting/openhunt/issues/13
- webmasterraj 11y agoMake sure you guys get a daily newsletter going out asap. I don't have inside information, but I'd guess it drives a ton of PH's daily returnee traffic. I for one know I won't be checking this every day, but I would read something in my inbox every morning (same with PH)
- jacquesc 11y agoagreed! tracked via https://github.com/OpenHunting/openhunt/issues/16 https://github.com/OpenHunting/openhunt/issues/16
- giarc 11y agoDon't do daily... or atleast let people sign up for daily/weekly/monthly. The PH daily emails were too much. I already get enough crap I don't read, it just makes me resent the site if I feel they are spamming me too much.
- tarr11 11y agoTried to join: Login unsuccessful. Something went wrong: Error: api_calls exceeding plan authorized calls
- kevindeasis 11y agoI will be using this because I think Product Hunt can't manage their waiting lists. I mean I've been waiting for a long time to be removed from the waiting list. I've also been doing their "suggestions" to get a full membership. But, I get nothing. Hopefully Open Hunt gets a stronger community. BTW: your api calls for registration has exceeded
- richardbrevig 11y agoI love this! "Login unsuccessful. Something went wrong: Error: api_calls exceeding plan authorized calls" when I went to log in with Twitter. Good problem for you to have, I look forward to you working this out so I can participate. Honestly, I only signed up for Twitter to join Product Hunt. That was a huge disappointment when I found out that having an account didn't mean anything. This will be a pleasant change, it's about time.
- elwell 11y ago> Honestly, I only signed up for Twitter to join Product Hunt. Yeah it's quirky that both sites force use of a Twitter account.
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- tedmiston 11y agoNot defending it, but at the time they launched being able to seed from your Twitter social graph was a jetpack for improving the quality of experience, and vital to building relevant notifications on day 1.
- nikolay 11y agoThey 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/ https://oauth.io/ [1] https://oauth.io/home/pricing https://oauth.io/home/pricing
- jacquesc 11y agothank 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
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- misiti3780 11y agotried to sign up and got this after twitter auth: Login unsuccessful. Something went wrong: Error: api_calls exceeding plan authorized calls
- jacquesc 11y agofixed now
- astrowilliam 11y agoI'm getting this error when trying to sign up with Twitter. "Login unsuccessful. Something went wrong: Error: api_calls exceeding plan authorized calls"
- jacquesc 11y agofixed now. my fault
- safeharbourio 11y agoFor upcoming PH excluded startups, this is amazing, good job jaques, live long and prosper!
- purans 11y ago+100
- tmaly 11y agohow long did it take you to put the site together?
- jacquesc 11y ago~48hrs across 3 people. coincidentally i help organize a 48hr hackathon called nodeknockout.com
- voltagex_ 11y agoUh oh: Login unsuccessful. Something went wrong: Error: api_calls exceeding plan authorized calls
- welder 11y agohttps://github.com/OpenHunting/openhunt/issues/15 https://github.com/OpenHunting/openhunt/issues/15
- bonyboy 11y agoCongratulations, I hope this gets the traction it deserves. Disrupting the disrupters.
- pavornyoh 11y agoI really like how you keep updating the site throughout the day based on the feedback you are getting here. Also, the suggestions made by users going directly to the creator of a project is pretty awesome. Good job.
- BorisMelnik 11y agoI also signed up for Product Hunt 1+ years ago and don't have the ability to comment even though I regularly share things on Twitter, purchase products, curate lists and interact as much as possible. +1 for any alternative system.
- sycren 11y agoDid you consider using http://www.telescopeapp.org/ http://www.telescopeapp.org/ to build this open version?
- moron4hire 11y agoI don't like that the comments aren't public. I'm finding it way too easy to be short.
- unclebucknasty 11y agoIt 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 site". OTOH, the latter site is presumably visited by potential investors and others who have a financial interest in consuming what's published. Additionally, without "throttling", you have a ton of stuff featured, adding to the skew. Thus, much of what's submitted has only one or two votes. People are primarily posting and moving on. Or, am I missing something?
- jacquesc 11y ago100% 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.
- vfusion 11y agoIt's lame that you guys couldn't come up with a more creative name. One that doesn't sound just like the guys you copied.
- peckrob 11y agoHey, this is really cool! Any chance you could add a daily summary email (like PH and some other similar sites have), or am I just missing it? That's a really easy way for me to keep up with what's been featured.
- intrasight 11y agoWithin a couple weeks, this is going to need curated categorization of products. At the highest level, I'd categorize as: a. physical product b. installed software product c. web service product d. hybrid software+service product Could be even broader. Or use tagging. You probably wouldn't look in the above categories for performance events, dining out, or phone sex. Must decide how wide a net you wish to cast, and what ontological approaches to use. But this, in my opinion, is where it gets interesting.
- tedmiston 11y agoYou're #1 on Hacker News and Product Hunt today with an app whose repo was created 12 days ago and your server is not down. That's commendable in itself.
- Uptrenda 11y agoGood ideas in retrospect always seem so obvious at the time. Love the idea OP.
- sandGorgon 11y agoThis is pretty cool - I notice you're building on top of Rails. Do consider using the source code of lobste.rs (which is like HN but open source). It has quite a bit if community development behind it and I daresay can be quickly adapted into the product hunt model. https://github.com/jcs/lobsters https://github.com/jcs/lobsters I'm trying to build in elasticsearch support in lobsters for a personal project - it currently uses sphinx. But it could be pretty cool if you can use that as a starting point.
- ex3ndr 11y agoWhat platform are you using behind this?
- jacquesc 11y agoruby on rails - take a look at the source: https://github.com/OpenHunting/openhunt https://github.com/OpenHunting/openhunt
- ex3ndr 11y agoWill ProductHunt shutdown OpenHunt with power of law?
- mythun 11y agoLove the idea. But a positive part abut PH is that I can view the discussion on the product by people (sometimes) more experienced than me, and then decide if it is worth my time to install/test out the product. If feedback on OH is private that angle is removed. But definitely back the idea - PH has become too undemocratic, and its obvious that if you don't have the right connections your product will never surface. I know people who've reached out to "influencers" on PH to have their product hunted by them.
- dayaz36 11y agoWill be interesting to see the quality of products from both sites. Will definitely be using Open Hunt from now on, then go over to PH to see the discussion on the products. I have no idea why they made the comment section private. That's the only downside I see to the site. Everything else I like.
- Vaskerville 11y agoIt's ridiculous the way they hand out the ability to make comments. These days, the comments are so watered down many of them are mostly useless. "Tell us about your process"..."tell us more about onboarding". Comments are filled with marketers and friend of friends egging things along without substance. It's hurting the site - if they don't see this they are really missing the boat. That being said, it's sad to see people rip on others sites/ideas blatantly. OpenHunt should quickly come up with an original design and find something unique in their approach.
- iliaznk 11y agoI wish there was RSS feed.
- goodoldboys 11y agoJust tried emailing you at the address listed on your site and got an undeliverable. Definitely interested in helping contribute.
- kaushikt 11y agoGreat job. High time you add pagination on the landing page now. :)
- KuhlMensch 11y agoNice, but will wait until comments are public
- t3ra 11y agoPH 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
- secondbond 11y agoInterestingly, no news coverage yet for Open Hunt. May be, conflict of interest with Product hunt.
- boksiora 11y agoIt was about time
- bambax 11y agoGreat 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.
- pcmaffey 11y agoMy suggestion for a name: "Gather" or some iteration thereof...
- etewiah 11y agoWow, love it!! Hope you guys kick the producthunt mafia out of existence.