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Thanks for the feedback. Can you elaborate? We'd like to build something sustainable, and to start that just means building the community. Monetization concern

Thanks 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 ago
Just 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 ago
  Agreed! 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 ago
    Can'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.
    - fuck_google 11y ago
      If the name works, why change it? There is nothing wrong in positioning a product/service against a closed alternative. OpenOffice for instance seems to have worked well as a name.
  - mod 11y ago
    Take this with the caveat that I don't know much about how OSS works. I think you should step up and make OH in your vision. This wishy-washy stuff on name, public comments, etc being up to the future community--I think you need to set the standard there, and then have it open to modification later.
    - andrewstuart 11y ago
      I agree. There's "fixing the PH democracy issue" and then there's going to far down the "hippy free love everything is a community all decisions are joint and open and everyone's opinion counts". The hippy path is a recipe for stagnation and failure - vision is needed and decisions, not abdication of responsibility to "the community".

andrewstuart 11y ago

Just 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 ago
Agreed! 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 ago
  Can'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.
  - fuck_google 11y ago
    If the name works, why change it? There is nothing wrong in positioning a product/service against a closed alternative. OpenOffice for instance seems to have worked well as a name.
- mod 11y ago
  Take this with the caveat that I don't know much about how OSS works. I think you should step up and make OH in your vision. This wishy-washy stuff on name, public comments, etc being up to the future community--I think you need to set the standard there, and then have it open to modification later.
  - andrewstuart 11y ago
    I agree. There's "fixing the PH democracy issue" and then there's going to far down the "hippy free love everything is a community all decisions are joint and open and everyone's opinion counts". The hippy path is a recipe for stagnation and failure - vision is needed and decisions, not abdication of responsibility to "the community".