We’ve been improving the Maker experience to ensure more high quality products are available each day. To do this, we’re providing makers with more tools to help them launch. Additionally, we’re experimenting with different content and features that can help users understand and contribute to Web3.
We’re creating more ways for our community to hear from one another, so we’ve made significant changes in this batch, including major updates to reviews and events. Here are recent features we’ve released.
New year, new team, new features! We are growing fast at Product Hunt (see: Prologue and our job openings), which means we’re going to have a lot more cool stuff for you to play with this year as we expand Product Hunt into THE place to learn about new and established products. Here are some of the most recent features we’ve released.
In December, the Product Hunt team shifts gears to focus on planning for next year, our hackathon, and some much-needed rest and relaxation. We hope that you are also able to give yourself a break. Whether that means spending time with friends and family or making space for an interesting side project, you deserve to step away from the normal routine towards something more fun. With the holidays to look forward to as we near 2022, here’s a roundup of features we debuted this week:
Product Hunt is more than the latest products and now our search reflects that. We added search fields to discussions, stories, upcoming products, and your activity to find products that you've upvoted. There's a ton of great content from the community and our team that we have made more accessible, to make finding that blog post or discussion from the community that much easier.
Last month we made pretty significant changes to the homepage design, and this month we updated the content. Now you’ll see the most interesting discussions and stories right in the home feed, so you don't miss a beat. You may also notice some other tweaks, like our Recommended sort and the "You might also like" suggestions, that pop up after you upvote a product from the homefeed.
Did you notice a new counter on the homepage? 🕵️ Mysterious. Keep coming back and something cool might happen.
We love the community 😻 Get recognized for your contributions and show them off to your peers. Check out your profile to see your current progress and badges you've earned.
We have so much cool stuff we want to share with you, but it might not always be the right time. It is easier to select which notifications you receive from us in your profile settings. (This will go live at the end of the week!)
Nominations will open in January. We're brewing up exciting events, both online and IRL, and we can't wait to share more with you.
#whatsnew
Now it's easier for makers and hunters to post new products. This starts with better documentation for newcomers, as well as a slick new flow that will help both new and veteran users alike. An improved scheduling tool tops it off and helps users maximize the time that their launch lives in the homepage feed. All this should make launching a product faster and easier than it's ever been.
It is more straightforward to manage your email preferences (or just unsubscribe) from the newsletter. This will be rolled out to all emails soon; we have to make a few tweaks to get the rest of this working just right.
We clean up pretty nice. We've been making improvements to our design language across Product Hunt, but we held off on making a big change to the homepage until now. We are proud to introduce a clean new design that will look great across platforms.
You might have noticed an uptick in notifications from users you follow. It turns out we had a small bug preventing users from getting all their friends' posts. Have fun supporting the folks you follow.
We've silently released a new feature that we will widely release at the end of the year. See if you can find it. Hint: We're making products more evergreen.
#buildinpublic
We're regularly inspired by makers in our community who build in public and are following their lead. Though we've done this in the past some, it's time to restart sharing our product updates with our users consistently. We want you to see what's going on under the hood and keep you posted on the latest and greatest features. We'd love to hear back from you if there is a change you are particularly excited about (or not).
Has one of your tools gone defunct, rogue, or you just want to see what else is out there? We've updated our Alternatives pages to make it easier to find the products other folks are using. Visit a product — there you can explore Alternatives from the sidebar. Eg. I used to love using Hipmunk, but now I need an alternative flight booking app after they were acquired by Concur.
We've added new categories to Discussions so it's easier to find the topics that interest you. We hope you'll find your tribe amongst the great community here at Product Hunt. Or maybe you just have a funny pic that we all need to see in Catnips 😸
Don't lose your place while submitting a product. Sometimes you just don't have all the assets needed to launch a post yet, so instead of having to re-enter information again later, we'll save your post so you can return to it once you have that perfect product pic.