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by rrhoover 12y ago
I've never told makers to beg for upvotes and in cases where people have incentivized people (e.g. donating money to charity for every upvote -- yes, that happened), we've removed the post entirely.
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by rrhoover 12y ago
We're updating our FAQ (producthunt.com/about) to be more clear. We're also considering sending an email to makers when they engage in the discussion, recommendations and policies on this topic. Would love to hear if you ha
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by rrhoover 12y ago
I favorite to show people I'm listening (read-receipt). It's not an endorsement for asking for upvotes. I realize how this would be misinterpreted so perhaps I'll avoid that in the future.
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by rrhoover 12y ago
We discourage people from explicitly asking others to upvote their product and you may notice often times product with a high upvote count are actually at the bottom of the page or removed entirely for trying to game the rankings. It'
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by rrhoover 12y ago
To follow up on #5, talk like a human. People are generally turned off by PR speak so I recommend makers be personable. :)
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by rrhoover 12y ago
Good question, jbail. The first version of the app admittedly looks very similar to the web experience. We wanted to get something out sooner, rather than later and the most requested feature since Product Hunt launched, has been an iOS ap
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by rrhoover 12y ago
Yikes! Sorry about that, goeric. Mind emailing me your phone number and twitter username to ryan@producthunt.com? We're working through some bugs now. EDIT: looks like we ran out of Twilio credits. Just reloaded!
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by rrhoover 12y ago
Excited to finally release our iOS app, created by the amazingly talented David McKinney ( http://davidmckinney.com/ ). This version is still very early and we're working through some bugs but you gotta ship sometime, r
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by rrhoover 12y ago
Fantastic write-up. Great to see the steps level's took to validate demand with minimal effort and ways he maximized the the opportunity once it started to take off.
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by rrhoover 12y ago
Agreed re: page views. As Peter pointed out, it really depends on the product. Founders have reported as little as 0.5% conversion to as high as 40% conversion from page view to purchase via PH.
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by rrhoover 12y ago
There's a big opportunity far beyond the relatively niche startup community we've gained traction in. I respect your skepticism and frankly I'm encouraged by these doubts. Product Hunt is early and will change. WRT to prefe
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by rrhoover 12y ago
It's really hard to predict what will become a billion dollar company, especially with something as early as Product Hunt. We have several bets to place but what you see today may look a lot different 1, 2, 3 years from now. Julez Mal
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by rrhoover 12y ago
Thanks, bebbs! Which chat was that?
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by rrhoover 12y ago
"why would you not DM them on twitter" Most people's twitter settings require that they follow you to DM them. "e-mail them with a bot that scrapes emails off the product site" Not a bad idea and we could make some
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by rrhoover 12y ago
You're correct, we did seed the community with people I knew in startups that I thought would (1) be interested in this type of community and (2) have interesting discoveries/thoughts on tech products. I won't pretend there a
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by rrhoover 12y ago
I appreciate the feedback, huhtenberg. Can you describe what you mean by "blunt and obnoxious"? Maybe we can improve our /about page copy or something else? On a related note: we just started handing out recommendations to
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by rrhoover 12y ago
We should probably find a way to streamline this outreach but right now it's entirely manual. If we can't find the founder's Twitter handle, we send a message to the startup/product's Twitter account.
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by rrhoover 12y ago
Thanks, Ria. I like your hunts and comments. :)
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by rrhoover 12y ago
The majority of the tweets you're referring to are notifications to founders when their product is on Product Hunt so they can answer questions that arise. This leads to (1) a more interesting conversation and (2) fewer bummed founder
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by rrhoover 12y ago
I want to be clear that YC has no preferential treatment on Product Hunt and you'll find TechStars, 500 Startups, and other accelerator backed startups featured with as much adoration as YC startups. Earlier this week we also helped p
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by rrhoover 12y ago
Valid question, Austen! Kevin Hale and I shared our thoughts on this in this Gigaom article: http://gigaom.com/2014/07/17/as-product-hunt-joins-y-combina... I won't say PH is better than Show HN. It&#x
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by rrhoover 12y ago
For fun, check out our Show HN from January :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144815
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by rrhoover 12y ago
Love that you added Product Hunt, drt. We're nearly done with our API and will be opening it up in the coming weeks. Those interested in early access, please submit your info here: https://rrhoover.typeform.com/to&#x2
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by rrhoover 12y ago
To echo dang, we (Product Hunt) certainly can't take any credit for "inspiring" Show HN. It's existed for years.
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by rrhoover 12y ago
People haven't stopped posting products to HN because of Product Hunt but I believe this will encourage more of it and may draw more attention to product launches on the site.
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by rrhoover 12y ago
I didn't take offense, lalwanivikas. The fact that you mentioned Product Hunt is more flattering, actually. As dang mentioned, there's room for both. The HN / PH communities are significantly different and will increasingly
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by rrhoover 12y ago
Glad to see this. Show HN has always been my favorite part of Hacker News. Anything that can inspire more creation and help product builders find an audience, is a good thing, imo.
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by rrhoover 12y ago
We have a long way to go to reach HN-level numbers but I think we're doing OK, considering Product Hunt's been around for ~8 months. I shared more numbers earlier in this thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by rrhoover 12y ago
As previously mentioned in this HN thread, we'll be opening posting to everyone to submit products for review by the community (not everything can hit the homepage or it will get too noisy with the current design) in addition to a reco
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by rrhoover 12y ago
I just pulled a list of the top most trafficked products (by unique outbound clicks) posted to Product Hunt in the past week: 1) Meeet http://www.producthunt.com/posts/meeet - 4,827 2) ProducTind http://www.

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