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Show HN: Product Hunt – Hacker News for Products
- rrhoover 13y agoWe launched publicly about two months ago after Nathan Bashaw (@nbashaw) and I built it over Thanksgiving break. The backstory was published on FastCo: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3023152/open-company/the-wisdom-of-the-20-minute-startup http://www.fastcolabs.com/3023152/open-company/the-wisdom-of... Happy to answer any questions and would love feedback from the HN community!
- talhof8 13y agoI'm surprised it hasn't been posted on HN before today. Anyways, great job with ProductHunt!
- zvanness 13y agoCongrats Ryan! You've done an amazing job so far. I launched http://headlinr.com/ http://headlinr.com/ last Thursday, had no clue about ProductHunt :(
- speeder 13y agoI liked it... But it is still invitation only, and so far I never got invited for anything invitation only and I end forgetting it and never using it.
- duck 13y agoGreat job with the launch, Ryan!
- maximesalomon 13y agoGreat Job on the launch Ryan!
- callmeed 13y agoI have a user account but when/how can I post something?
- rrhoover 13y agoWe're currently limiting contributor growth as have a few changes we need to make to the product to scale. If you're interested, please add your info here and we'll send you an email once you're added! :) http://bit.ly/ph-contributor http://bit.ly/ph-contributor
- elanmiller 13y agorooting for you pal, keep up the awesome
- colbyh 13y agoPH has been a pretty great resource for me. There aren't enough hours in the day to keep up with every company that launches. Quality > quantity any day of the week.
- hopkinschris 13y agoI use PH daily as well. I posted a side project of mine up there and received a bunch of positive feedback and insightful questions :)
- rrhoover 13y agoThanks! Which product was it? Want to link to the discussion thread?
- hopkinschris 13y agoSplashbox http://www.producthunt.co/posts/868 http://www.producthunt.co/posts/868
- byosko 13y agoProduct Hunt is addictive and fun, but also useful. I've found a few cool things that I've used right away, and more that I've bookmarked for later.
- lowglow 13y agoNice. We just launched something like this on http://beta.techendo.co/ http://beta.techendo.co/ Any feedback on how we can make the experience better, just let me know. :)
- speakme 13y agoHow do you intend to balance the need for high quality with the desire of users to get involved in the community? Are you worried if someone can't post/comment for months after joining, they may lose interest?
- rrhoover 13y agoGreat question! Honestly, that's one of my least favorite parts of Product Hunt. I hate turning away people that want to contribute but to keep the contributions of high quality and not overwhelming, we need to curb our contributor growth. We will be making product changes to grow the community, opening it to more people.
- thomasdavies 13y agoI can only vote on Product Hunt and can't comment on the site. For me, I treat it as a daily digest of cool products rather than a discussion board. I haven't lost interest yet!
- joewalnes 13y agoHN and PN are the two sites I now visit daily to keep up with the world. Great job rrhoover (and pg, of course!)
- rrhoover 13y agoThanks, Joe! I really appreciate your support. Also don't forget @nbashaw. Super happy to be working w/ him on it.
- BHSPitMonkey 13y agoWhat's PN?
- rrhoover 13y agoI think he meant PH (aka Product Hunt) :)
- gabsong 13y agoThe way that Product Hunt has been helping me to discover new products is by the collective curation, by people that provide a lot of insight and are users themselves, just as it would on HackerNews. Above all, it allows me to get involved with the community (founders, PMs, designers, avid users). I used to go to the App Store for my discovery, but now I do it faster and easier on PH. That's why I really like it. Kudos!
- drum 13y agoHad one of my apps featured on PH and was amazed at the quality of feedback. Ryan himself wrote a detailed review and a designer from Pinterest pointed out a UI flaw I'd never even thought about. Post here: http://www.producthunt.co/posts/442 http://www.producthunt.co/posts/442
- suyash 13y agoTell HN: It is a great website but hella addictive, so be-aware specially those who complain about HN sucking all their time, now you have 2 addictive websites to deal it. I personally would stay away from it.
- kalier 13y agoWhy would you stay away from ProductHunt? It adds value??
- kalier 13y agoThese new product discovery sites are awesome, been spending a lot of time lately on ProductHunt and Headlinr!
- kmfrk 13y agoI think the big interface problem with the website is that it makes the user work extremely hard to figure out what the hell each product is about. I don't think there's any point in emphasizing the product names, when they don't serve to explain the product. A really simple improvement would be to display the name and description similarly to HN: <description> (<title/domain>) E.g. Realtime code sharing for developers (CodeShare.io) I mean this in the most helpful way possible: the interface is really, really bad at serving one of its basic, fundamental functions.
- stillmotion 13y agoThe interface literally does what you just listed but backwards.
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- aaronem 13y agoIt emphasizes the product name, rather than the description, which I'd argue draws the reader's eye to the wrong place; that emphasis would be better placed on what something is, which information the reader will find useful in deciding whether she cares what something is called.
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- gozmike 13y agoHuge congrats to Ryan & team for getting this out there. It's a great, focussed source of news on product launches that might not provide incredible traffic (yet) but that provides valuable, constructive feedback from smart people. I really hope it retains this quality as it (inevitably) grows. We launched SupportKit for Zendesk (http://supportkit.radialpoint.com http://supportkit.radialpoint.com) on ProductHunt yesterday and the response was great.
- nathancahill 13y agoCongrats @nbashaw! Glad to see it on here. Looks great, keep killing it.
- nbashaw 13y agoThanks!
- blakerobbins 13y agoCongrats to @nbashaw and @rrhoover, absolutely insane that you built this over Thanksgiving Break! It's been amazing to watch it grow in this short amount time. I always expect big things from the two of you.
- benjlang 13y agoBookmarked a few weeks ago. Visit every day, love the site.
- ddv 13y agoThis is awesome, congrats!
- avalaunch 13y agoCongratulations on getting this out there. My favorite hacker news posts are always Show HN so this is really cool. I love seeing what other people are working on and having a single place to find new tools could prove really useful. That being said, in my opinion, product discovery doesn't seem well suited to the hacker news format. A new product's relevance lasts a lot longer than the average new news article does. I'd love to see tags added to each product and a way to browse by tags. Boring and probably done, I suppose, but I think it'd be more useful.
- rrhoover 13y agoThanks! Hacker News and "Show HN" is responsible for some of the market validation and product design of Product Hunt. While we want to keep the product simple and useful, we do see value in adding more context and "searchability" with tagging. It's definitely on our radar.
- dageshi 13y agoThe ability for people with certain domain knowledge or active interests to subscribe to tags, or customise their front page based on tags would be pretty nice. Example, I'm interested in travel related ideas/products, but I've really no great interest in much of the stuff on the front page at the moment. But if something travel related does hit the site I don't want to miss it. This might also allow for higher quality of comments, less eyeballs but more interested eyeballs so to speak.
- EGF 13y agoI have been enjoying PH for awhile - congrats on the launch and getting the word out. I would say that sometimes it is a little overwhelming to get through every service, and I look forward to a time where you are classifying/organizing the products that come through. Knowing there is a searchable repository of products would be a great resource.
- inCync 13y agoJust learning about you- congrats on the launch!
- desireco42 13y agoI really enjoyed this site, at first my reaction was 'meh' but as I was starting to go through services and recognized some, I am seeing great potential. Startups as a rule need all possible ways to get the word out.
- gregorkas 13y agoMy scrolling experience was really laggy... as if images were constantly loading in the background slowing the page. But it's a nice site otherwise.
- namenotrequired 13y agoI like Product Hunt, I've been visiting it several times a week since its launch. Question for Ryan, how are the contributors chosen?
- tim333 13y agoShame you can't open the comments in a new tab - I usually use Hacker News that way. I realize javascript things popping up in odd strips down the side of the page are trendy but not very nice to use if you want to actually read stuff. Otherwise nice.
- nbashaw 13y agoGood point! I'm to blame for that :) but I'll fix it!
- liveink 13y agobefore producthunt existed how did you share links about cool new products @rrhoover?
- rrhoover 13y agoI shared much less before Product Hunt but most of these discussion happened IRL. Products are watercooler topic and particularly interesting conversation starter for many techy, early adopters. Online, I did and still share cool products on Twitter and occasionally Facebook. I've also written about several early products.
- liveink 13y agowhat about a special msgme group?
- hownottowrite 13y agoRSS feed?
- recurser 13y ago+1. looks great, but I'd love to have a feed to follow. I tend to forget about this kind of thing if I don't subscribe.
- jtzou 13y agoMy favorite aspect of PH is that it cuts out the fat of TC/HN/Pando and sheds light on the products we, the people, deem worthy of praise.
- mjwhansen 13y agoI found out about you guys last week when you linked to -my- project, Geocodio, from -your- site (came up in my Google Analytics). Since then I've been checking it daily. Nice work!
- findjashua 13y agovery cool! I'd prefer comments to be threaded though. Congrats!
- kvnwng 13y agoDid you use Arc for this? Edit: nvm. Thank you for introducing me to Telesc.pe. This is exactly what I've been looking for!
- dshanahan 13y agoLove Telesc.pe. Used it at http://lighthouse.io http://lighthouse.io as a first test app, been great.
- volaski 13y agoExactly what i wanted! I actually deliberately scan for Show HN posts because even the half-baked ones are often very inspirational. Congrats!
- lovskogen 13y agoI like PH. It could be more editorial in describing each product. Also, are you working on an improved mobile design?
- rrhoover 13y agoI can't share much yet but we have something better coming than just a better mobile web design. /end tease :)
- lovskogen 13y agoTease? I was just wondering if you'll improve the mobile experience - because now I have to scroll through a big header, newsletter signup, tweet button, the voters avatars and related links before actually viewing the comment thread.
- pearjuice 13y agoCan you add sorting by characters?
- gblanston 13y agoHere's a few things I couldn't easily figure out on your site: What is a best new product? How is this different than a linked list on a blog? How would I find the best X app? e.g. Best new iOS note app? Is this site for me or for someone else? Am I a product person?
- justin 13y agoCongrats on launching. Suggestions: * Some of the images are broken, you should fix those * You should add all the product images from every site. Not having multiple angles is annoying * You should consider making the thumbnails rotate when I move my mouse across the image on the search pages * Would be nice if there was a larger selection of furniture
- nbashaw 13y agoFurniture? Are you talking about http://www.producthunt.co/ http://www.producthunt.co/ or some other site? Anyway, thanks for the feedback!
- kkwok 13y agoGuessing that's in response to this thread instead? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144369
- ajhit406 13y agoWhen @nbashaw first launched this, I told him they should limit submissions to 10 products a day because they'd run out of new products after a few weeks. It's been amazing just to see how many new products are out there-- more than any (productive) person could really check out on a daily basis. Excited to see where @producthunt goes in the future.
- udfalkso 13y agoI think you're on to something here.
- yakshaving 13y agoCongratulations Ryan, I feel lucky to be an early part of this (user #3 baby!) when you just sat down to think about doing it. It's come along a long way already, I can't imagine where this is going to end up in a year.
- notastartup 13y agohow do I submit a product I found?
- charlieok 13y agoSomething I can put in my feed reader (rss or atom)?
- laxk 13y agoDear Product Hunt, please fix "switch to weekly emails or unsubscribe" feature. I was trying to switch to weekly emails 3 times and unsubscribe as well. It doesn't work at all.
- rsearles 13y agoLove this site.