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I have two things to say. 1. I agree with what minimaxir said. It seems like friends of friends of friends control the entire place. HN seems less "controlle

by xpose2000 12y ago

I have two things to say. 1. I agree with what minimaxir said. It seems like friends of friends of friends control the entire place. HN seems less "controlled" than PH. Even Ryan himself went above and beyond to make sure that Alexis' friends were able to comment right off the bat. (https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/489931085048860672 https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/489931085048860672) In hindsight, this paid off since he got funding and I don't blame him. But to the average user who has been waiting to comment - it's incredibly frustrating. And why the heck is commenting disabled by default anyway? Why does it sound like a good idea to only allow friends of friends a voice to comment? Provide some type of "participant threshold", and then allow everyone to comment and block those who abuse it. 2. They got 6.1M in funding. I am not from the startup "funding" ilk, but that sounds like a ridiculously high number to me. What could they possibly be building that requires that much capital? The site and premise of it now is fairly simple to implement and code. Perhaps they have grand plans that are way above my head?

opendais 12y ago
> 2. They got 6.1M in funding. I am not from the startup "funding" ilk, but that sounds like a ridiculously high number to me. What could they possibly be building that requires that much capital? The site and premise of it now is fairly simple to implement and code. Perhaps they have grand plans that are way above my head? The only thing I can think of is competing with AngelList as it operates in a neighboring market with alot of customer overlap. People interested in VC, Startups, Jobs @ Startups.
- brentm 12y ago
  They have to be rolling out Product Hunt for X. There are a lot of verticals where it will be way bigger than this one. They'll need a lot of capital to roll these verticals out before everyone else does. Look at Stack Overflow and their large network of somewhat independent niche sites.
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petercooper 12y ago
But to the average user who has been waiting to comment - it's incredibly frustrating. One thing is when you're a "normal" user, see a discussion you could add true value to, and then realize.. d'oh, I can't comment. While I still enjoy looking at things PH links to, I've stopped reading the comments because I've found seeing a comment you can't respond to is more irritating than I'd have ever previously imagined :-)

opendais 12y ago

> 2. They got 6.1M in funding. I am not from the startup "funding" ilk, but that sounds like a ridiculously high number to me. What could they possibly be building that requires that much capital? The site and premise of it now is fairly simple to implement and code. Perhaps they have grand plans that are way above my head? The only thing I can think of is competing with AngelList as it operates in a neighboring market with alot of customer overlap. People interested in VC, Startups, Jobs @ Startups.

brentm 12y ago
They have to be rolling out Product Hunt for X. There are a lot of verticals where it will be way bigger than this one. They'll need a lot of capital to roll these verticals out before everyone else does. Look at Stack Overflow and their large network of somewhat independent niche sites.

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petercooper 12y ago

But to the average user who has been waiting to comment - it's incredibly frustrating. One thing is when you're a "normal" user, see a discussion you could add true value to, and then realize.. d'oh, I can't comment. While I still enjoy looking at things PH links to, I've stopped reading the comments because I've found seeing a comment you can't respond to is more irritating than I'd have ever previously imagined :-)