Product Hunt Team
Let's chat about how we can make Product Hunt better, together 😸
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
As we close out 2015, we’d love to discuss how we can make Product Hunt even better, together. We have a ton of ideas and I'm sure you do, too.
We've added a few questions below for you so feel free to reply with your thoughts or add a new questions/thoughts to the thread. Several members of the team will be participating. 😊
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Jack Dweck
@jackdweck · Product Manager at Unroll.Me
Hi @ProductHunt! I'm thrilled that the entire team is participating. Major 🔑!
Here are two ideas on how to improve PH's curation process in the short-term:
Be much more transparent throughout the process:
1. On the submission page, clearly state that not all products will be featured. Include a link to best practices BEFORE someone submits something - this will hopefully prevent a portion of products from being submitted in the first place.
2. Change the copy from “Hunt it!” to “Submit for review”
4. After a product is submitted, it goes into “review” - similar to Apple's review process (but much quicker ⏰✨)
5. The hunter receives clear notifications along the way: “X is waiting for review”, “X has been rejected. See why.”, “X has been featured!”, etc...
6. If rejected, clearly state why and if possible, allow for it to be submitted again
7. If accepted & is scheduled, state when it will be featured
Obviously this will require constant curation, which may not be feasible as you scale.
A more scalable approach - allow the community to curate:
Significantly increase exposure to non-featured products. Make “Upcoming” a primary tab - maybe place it next to “Featured”. If a product in the Upcoming tab reaches a significant amount of upvotes (w/ voting ring detection), feature it. This will allow the community to decide what gets featured in combination w/ the moderators - could make a huge difference IMO.
I have a bunch of other ideas — way too many to list. You know where to reach me. :)
Keep on killing it! Can't wait to see what's in store for 2016 😻🙌
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Hey, Jack (love your collections, btw).
Re: the "hunt" flow, we designed a flow with some useful "pro tips" but never implemented them. We’re making some broader improvements to the submission flow and will keep this in mind. Btw, if you have any good examples of how other sites have done this well, please share!
Thanks for the ideas on the submission process. I love the idea of notifying the hunter (and maybe the maker if they’re tagged already) when a product moves from upcoming to the homepage. We’re also exploring making the upcoming feed more accessible. The more people we have exploring and upvoting products in upcoming, the better the curation.
Feel free to share more ideas here or via email. 😊
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Ok, my favorite question: any crazy ideas we should explore? 😁
Ali Afridi
@alikafridi · VC @ Lightbank
@rrhoover Not a crazy idea (at least I don't think), but I'd be interested in seeing a new content/blog posts section.
Mohsen Khalkhali
@mossibat · IoT investor @ Iratel Ventures
@rrhoover a way to analyse your own and your networks upvotes
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
@alikafridi @rrhoover love that idea. how do you envision it working?
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
@jrdbacosta @rrhoover what kind of meetups would you like to see? We've had a lot but want to mix it up. any thoughts? cc @darynakulya
www.producthunt.com/meetups
QueenLear
@queenleariv · ConnectionAgent-Co-Founder @ButtonPoetry
@jrdbacosta @rrhoover more visibility around meetups. AMA from community members who attended? Was there a particularly awesome one? Map?
Victoria Dominika
@toria_talk · Social Media Strategist, Google
@rrhoover It would be cool to see what connections/ similarities you share with other community members. When you click on their profile seeing something like "You both have upvoted these products/games/podcats..etc." I think it would be a good way to further develop relationships via Product Hunt.
Ali Afridi
@alikafridi · VC @ Lightbank
@eriktorenberg @rrhoover It could work similar to Podcasts. People in the community can share blog posts or essays that they find interesting. There's a lot of new content being published daily but it's hard to keep track/read through all of it. Having it shared on Product Hunt could also lead to some good discussions about the content (which currently happens in a somewhat disorganized way on Twitter).
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
@toria_talk @rrhoover this is really interesting. can you elaborate here Victoria?
Justin Jackson
@mijustin · MegaMaker
@rrhoover here's a few CRAZY ideas ;)
1. Verified purchase badge for commenters. Use Gumroad, Amazon, etc... APIs to show people who actually purchased the product.
2. Embeddable Product Hunt profile: let me share the things I've made on my website.
3. Tags on maker profiles: allow me to tag my skills / interests and search for other makers that way.
4. Bundles: put together multiple PH products and sell for one low price (a-la Appsumo).
Sarthak Grover
@sarthakgrover · All things Consumer
@rrhoover Talking about crazy ideas....so much great talent here, create a 'volunteer' platform of sorts, perhaps to mentor some kids or budding entrepreneurs. Not a total volunteer-exchange type of site but like a project to guide them through a lifecycle of a product. Perhaps a match mentor/mentee platform.
Thanasis
@tnsrig · UI/UX @travelplanet24 @airtickets_gr
Ali Afridi
@alikafridi · VC @ Lightbank
@rrhoover @eriktorenberg I'd love to see Product Hunt do more to enable makers to build products. This could be by providing discounts to services (ex. free credits to DigitalOcean) and also a way to connect with other makers to collaborate. The slack communities are cool but they require you to keep checking several times a day otherwise you miss out.
On a side note - just came up with a project idea using the Product Hunt API while I was writing this comment. I might know what my first side-project for 2016 is 😀
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@sarthakgrover -- oooo, a volunteer program could be really interesting. Similar to that, we've considered giving people an opportunity to mark themselves as available for hire or contract work. There are several talented engineers, product managers, designers, marketers, etc. and sometimes you can get a sense of their skillset/thought process interacting with them on PH.
@mijustin -- should we add a LinkedIn-style endorsement feature? :P
Victoria Dominika
@toria_talk · Social Media Strategist, Google
@eriktorenberg @rrhoover Almost like a mashup of what AngelList (goo.gl/MZDpjj) and LinkedIn di (goo.gl/HwEYVq) but the connections are through PH. A feature that would give you the ability to see where there is overlap in terms of interests/ connections. Like a network map for PH connections. :) Let me know if you want more details.
Sarthak Grover
@sarthakgrover · All things Consumer
@rrhoover I like the 'mark yourselves as available for hire etc' idea. Do you see the careers/job board page evolving based on such a feature?
Adam Muller
@muller_adam · Co-founder ADHD Collective, MullerCast
@rrhoover
Daily PH Trick/Hack:
feature some really cool productivity trick/hack you can achieve with an already hunted product.
-Could go out with daily email OR
-Could be a category of its own that people submit and vote for
-if its own category, PH-er can NAME the trick/hack, brief description, then provide SCREENSHOTS for details
Benefits:
-Gives an already-hunted product another day to shine
-Highlights the slick and useful community (the PH individual gets props for his skills)
Imaginary Benefits:
-Could be really fun when you pair with Collection (Hack Collections...)
-It gives everyone a chance to let their inner-geek out even more
-I can already imagine some people I want hacks from
Dan Fennessy
@dan_fennessy · Founder at Party with a Local
@rrhoover Someone who curates a Collection should be called a 'Gatherer', with a little 'G' icon on the pic, like Makers and Hunters have :-)
Sarthak Grover
@sarthakgrover · All things Consumer
@rrhoover Another idea, following up on the crazy volunteer-idea - Donate Hunt where Product makers could perhaps donate products to the community (not the PH community but the other community outside our virtual world). It's logistically a nightmare and perhaps even a bigger nightmare is finding the right people/organizations who would accept this donation and find it useful but you did ask for crazy ideas.
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@sarthakgrover producthunt.com/jobs is intentionally very basic. There's a lot we could do to improve this, including surfacing relevant jobs to relevant people across the site, but we don't have an immediate plans to update this.
Adam Muller
@muller_adam · Co-founder ADHD Collective, MullerCast
@toria_talk @rrhoover Think the connections/similarities idea is pretty fab.
João Costa
@jrdbacosta · BD octonius.com
@eriktorenberg @rrhoover @darynakulya (my internet connection was down) meetups during summit's for example. Can open a category for summit's, and from here you can do a lot of things, like partnerships and special prices(for PH members), to attend to summits, etc.
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Radoslav Stankov
@rstankov · Tech @ Product Hunt / AngelList
We recently launched 3.0 of the Product Hunt app, now working on some additional improvements (e.g. new push notification types, better sharing functionality). What else would you like to see changed, improved, added, etc.?
Ali Afridi
@alikafridi · VC @ Lightbank
@rstankov I'd love to be able to customize push notifications for certain event types (a product get 400 upvotes, 10 ppl I follow upvoted a product, a product with a keyword in its description is posted, etc.).
Jeff Needles
@jsneedles · BI @ Meerkat & Maker of Things
@rstankov TBH, i kinda feel like the core interactions haven't changed much in the app... The UX isn't the most stellar thing when just trying to browse individual posts. It's way less buggy which is great... but will you be making any strides for core improvements to UX?
Also, deep links would be great.
Jack Smith
@_jacksmith · Serial Entrepreneur & Startup Adviser
@rstankov unless I am stupid, it seems like there's no way to actually submit a product via the app. That would seem like an essential feature to me.
Thanasis
@tnsrig · UI/UX @travelplanet24 @airtickets_gr
@rstankov The twitter share you have on the site,i would love to have it on the app!
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Radoslav Stankov
@rstankov · Tech @ Product Hunt / AngelList
@jsneedles 3.0 was more than facelift, we did a lot of background work to prepare the app for more rapid releases. Our main goal is to keep the app as sync as web as possible. We are already working on some deep link integration.
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Radoslav Stankov
@rstankov · Tech @ Product Hunt / AngelList
@_jacksmith submission was intentionally removed, among with several other features. One major goal we had for 3.0 was to keep the app simple. Also we didn't have almost any submissions coming from the mobile app. We might add it in the future, when we have the submission flow nailed down on the web.
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Radoslav Stankov
@rstankov · Tech @ Product Hunt / AngelList
@tnsrig we are working that :)
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
We've hosted over 200 LIVE Chats this year. Any suggestions on how we can improve them?
Also, which guests would you like to see? :)
Ali Afridi
@alikafridi · VC @ Lightbank
@eriktorenberg Guests I'd like to see:
- Anand Sanwal
- CEOs of Fortune 500 companies (to talk about how they are dealing with new innovation/startup competitors in their industries. ex. Doug Oberhelman from Caterpillar)
- Elon Musk
- DJ Khaled
- Jessica Alba
Tyler
@modernty · Founder of Collectve and Bookstrap.xyz
@alikafridi @eriktorenberg +1 for Dan Martell! 😁❇.☑
Mohsen Khalkhali
@mossibat · IoT investor @ Iratel Ventures
@eriktorenberg Live chats are amazing but sometimes the questions remain unanswered. Is there a way to get those ones answered or followed up?
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
@alikafridi @eriktorenberg great recommendations! keep them coming
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
@modernty @eriktorenberg i'd love Dan Martell! Interested @danmartell?
Hugo Fauquenoi
@hfauq · user success @twistappteam @todoist 🚀
@eriktorenberg I find video chats more insightful than written QAs! Also, suggesting @amix3k for a LIVE chat :)
QueenLear
@queenleariv · ConnectionAgent-Co-Founder @ButtonPoetry
@eriktorenberg More women, more up and comers (even though the super stars are awesome). Being able to read the questions before the chat is live so you know what other people have posted so less panic trying to play catch-up while other questions are being answered. (maybe this is a thing I haven't figured out yet)
Adam Muller
@muller_adam · Co-founder ADHD Collective, MullerCast
@modernty @eriktorenberg Dan Martell would rock, big time!
Jack Smith
@_jacksmith · Serial Entrepreneur & Startup Adviser
@hfauq that's interesting feedback. I actually prefer the written Q&As, as I don't want to watch a very long video if I'm just interested where a specific question was answered. Perfect for me would be video, but with timestamps as to where particular questions were answered
Victoria Dominika
@toria_talk · Social Media Strategist, Google
@eriktorenberg Would love to see more video chats in 2016. :) Huge fan of the Blab integration. I think it would be interesting to have two guests at the same time with very different backgrounds/ perspectives, for example, Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders. 😂
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
(@queenleariv thanks for your help via email this past week!)
Christopher Hawkins
@chris_hawk · Creator, Chasing Product
@eriktorenberg I'd like to see (hear?) Justin Jackson on a live chat. His material on marketing for developers was huge for me and for a lot of people I know.
Ian Rumac
@ianissoawesome · Android Developer @ Kino.de
@alikafridi @eriktorenberg this!
DJ Khaled, Kanye, Elon
Ali Afridi
@alikafridi · VC @ Lightbank
@eriktorenberg Some more suggestions on people I'd like to see:
- Polymail founders/makers
- Founders that started their companies at hackathons (ex. GroupMe)
- Not sure if there are any, but makers who launched projects on PH and were then funded by investors
Adam Muller
@muller_adam · Co-founder ADHD Collective, MullerCast
@eriktorenberg You're a great interviewer, Erik. You've led some of the most interesting conversations, and have asked some solid questions.
Some guests I'd love to see in 2016:
Women:
-Anna Sale
-Starlee Kine
-Elizabeth Gilbert
-Brene Brown
-Ellen Vrana
-Krista Tippett
-Stephanie Foo
-Nazanin Blumberg
-Lena Dunham
Men:
-GaryVee (LIVE Video)
-Paul Graham (LIVE Video)
-Sam Jones
-Jay Z
-PJ Vogt
-Alex Goldman
-Rob Bell
-Tim Ferriss (LIVE Video)
-Srini Rao
-Bob Goff
-Quentin Tarantino
-Jamie Foxx
Off the top of the brain.
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
@toria_talk @eriktorenberg let me just say that a DREAM would be to have Killer Mike and/or Bernie Sanders. And I have tried and will keep trying.
What a genius idea to have them together :)
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
@muller_adam @eriktorenberg Thank you Adam for listening! What a great list. Some of those names I didn't have on the list - now I'll add to it!
Ellen Choi
@lnchoi · Entrepreneur
@eriktorenberg
(1) Sometimes live chats seem more like a bunch of people talking over each other in their own convos. A better way to see chronologically who's talking and see which threads are trending would be helpful.
(2) A system for suggesting and upvoting potential guests for chats.
QueenLear
@queenleariv · ConnectionAgent-Co-Founder @ButtonPoetry
@rrhoover @eriktorenberg You're very welcome! Like I said, that was just a starter list... I've got plenty more! :) Thanks for your prompt responses!
Victoria Dominika
@toria_talk · Social Media Strategist, Google
@eriktorenberg They've hung out before (https://twitter.com/WPJohnWagner... I don't think it should be THAT hard to bring them back together. :)
Jeff Needles
@jsneedles · BI @ Meerkat & Maker of Things
@eriktorenberg The LIVE 🎥 chats seem to lose me... and they're some of the coolest ppl. The feedback loop when asking a ? isn't as enticing or sharable. I don't get that "Jack Dorsey mentioned you" message which is such a cool feeling. And I can't find questions... It seems kinda half baked.
Also discovery of both past LIVEs and newly added LIVEs is very tough. Can't always scroll the list and know who i've seen/not seen before. Any efforts to improve these areas in 2016? The LIVEs are a great resource and wealth of info that gets a little lost.
Philipp Meder
@phimema · Sales, Marketing @JapaCasa
@eriktorenberg Bernie Sanders would definitely be great!
soroush ghodsi
@soroushg_ · Founder & CEO of Slik. 13yrs old.
@eriktorenberg What about trying to get the founder of the most-upvoted product of every week?
Ryan Gilbert
@ryangilbert · workspaced.com
@eriktorenberg Love the LIVE chats but lately there seems to be a ton of self-promotion in them. Would limiting this be a possibility?
ex. Question followed by "by the way I do x and would love to have you check it out". In my opinion it makes the question seem forced as a way to plug your own product/podcast/etc.
Adam Marx
@adammarx13 · CEO, Glipple, Inc.
@toria_talk @eriktorenberg I'm with Victoria on this. I love the Product Hunt/Blab dynamic, and think it makes the whole AMA experience so much more immersive. :D
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Jeff Needles
@jsneedles · BI @ Meerkat & Maker of Things
@rrhoover Deals & Recipes please.
Hugo Fauquenoi
@hfauq · user success @twistappteam @todoist 🚀
@rrhoover Muuuuusic! Suggestion: leave the curation to music producers at first (like the Tech section)
Bob Griffiths
@bob_griffiths · Founder CoachMaster (UK) Ltd
@queenleariv @rrhoover How about education and self development
Craig Davison
@davisonio · Student
@rrhoover How about Fashion? Or Music / Video would be great too.
Thanasis
@tnsrig · UI/UX @travelplanet24 @airtickets_gr
@rrhoover I would totally go for something art related! But i think is kind of hard!
QueenLear
@queenleariv · ConnectionAgent-Co-Founder @ButtonPoetry
Ivo Teel
@calimonk · Entrepreneur, Engineer, Gamer, Vlogger
@rrhoover Generally said, I think some categories could use more depth. Technology or Games for instance are quite broad, some subcategories or subtags might make sense.
QueenLear
@queenleariv · ConnectionAgent-Co-Founder @ButtonPoetry
@rrhoover As others have pointed out I think Movies and Video would be great categories, but I think there should be a distinction. There is a big enough difference between a full length movise and youtube videos. However the challenge would be minimizing the cat videos (... I mean if you would WANT to filter out adorable kitties) vs. things like Button Poetry videos.
It would be cool to be able to create profiles to link categories together too. As verticals expand being able to tie an app product, to a podcast about that type of product by those same makers, to a book that was released, to a video that was uploaded on YouTube (drawing again on my experience with Button Poetry and the different products the poets make).
Maybe this is another use for collections but how to get better visibility?
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@toria_talk @rrhoover we have board games as a platform of our game section :)
improvements to the search function will make them easy to find!
Dan Fennessy
@dan_fennessy · Founder at Party with a Local
@rrhoover How about Beta products? PH has a really vibrant community of tech early adopters and experts who love testing new products and giving feedback. This could be an ideal audience for makers to test their products in Beta before full launch. This could result in better finished products in Tech category further down the track too.
Sarthak Grover
@sarthakgrover · All things Consumer
@rrhoover How about "crowdfunded products" category - Products which are still live on Kickstarter etc? Most of the the projects I have backed are the ones I chanced upon based on other folks recommendations. There is no good way to discover the interesting new projects other than hearing about them in the big blogs etc. Would be interesting to discover new projects via this community and remove those from the regular Product category.
Simone Lucidi
@simonelucidi87 · Web developer and Guitarist
@rrhoover Movies, TV Series and Music ❤️ ...and I propose myself as moderator :P
Abhijeet S. Sutar
@_ajduke · Senior Software Engineer, Youfoot India
@rrhoover I second addiing Music
Adam Marx
@adammarx13 · CEO, Glipple, Inc.
@queenleariv @rrhoover would love to see art. music is more complicated i think because it's a more immersive experience, and thus has all sorts of copyright and distribution issues attached to it.
Jason Dainter
@jasondainter · International doer of things
@davisonio @rrhoover I second videos. I love the podcast section on PH which I often use for finding fast curated content when I'm sat in a car or riding a bike or generally having some time to kill. I'd love to do the same thing with curated videos (particularly good startup tech videos). Suprisingly i've yet to find a good site where say over a lunch time you can fire up a video to watch thats been hand picked and is up to date daily.
QueenLear
@queenleariv · ConnectionAgent-Co-Founder @ButtonPoetry
@adammarx13 @rrhoover More immersive? Art has very similar copyright and distribution challenges to music. I think it would be similar to posting other products as long as its attributed to the makers and distribution sites?
Hi all - quick question from all of us at Product Hunt. To date, the community has self-organized hundreds of meetups in countries all over the world. In the past, we've shipped t-shirts, stickers and tattoos to the hosts to share at the meetups. Any ideas on what how we can make them better?
Hugo Fauquenoi
@hfauq · user success @twistappteam @todoist 🚀
@corleyh Product Hunt socks would be such a nice addition to your PH swag 👑
QueenLear
@queenleariv · ConnectionAgent-Co-Founder @ButtonPoetry
@rrhoover Adding Books, Podcasts, and Games has been great! Are there any plans to create categories poetry vs. business books? Also, it might be fun to add links to your podcasts/LiveChat's to the product pages themselves so people can discover more about the founders that are featured. ...why are past LiveChats so hard to find... same with the upcoming page, why is it so hidden but linked to so easily in the FAQ page (am I missing something here?)
QueenLear
@queenleariv · ConnectionAgent-Co-Founder @ButtonPoetry
@corleyh Sorry I don't know why that question showed up as a reply to your meet ups post!
Ali Afridi
@alikafridi · VC @ Lightbank
@corleyh It may be slightly expensive, but I really like getting pens/notebooks/post-its from companies. Everytime I jot down notes in my KPCB notebook or use one of my Boeing post-its I think of the company that's in a way helping me build my projects.
Jeff Needles
@jsneedles · BI @ Meerkat & Maker of Things
@queenleariv @corleyh It's ok. Not to worry. :-)
Victoria Dominika
@toria_talk · Social Media Strategist, Google
@corleyh Team up with a cat shelter and have kitten adoptions at the meetups....just kitten. It would be awesome to give away some products that were featured on PH, even if there were only a limited #.
The girl scout in me also thinks it would be cool have different badges for the meetups that are displayed on your profile. Maybe once you have a certain amount of meetup badges you get some cool swag?
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Mike Coutermarsh
@mscccc · Code @ Product Hunt
hi all 👋. I worked on ShareMeow. The service we use for generating images from Product Hunt comments. More details here. (click the tweet button below to try it out) 😀.
Any thoughts on how we can make it better?
Jeff Needles
@jsneedles · BI @ Meerkat & Maker of Things
@mscccc Threaded comments!! Especially for sharing out LIVE q/a. It'd be cool to like checkbox which comments get image-ized. Also GIF support would be crazy cool.
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Mike Coutermarsh
@mscccc · Code @ Product Hunt
@jsneedles yes! threaded comments coming soon :)
Jack Dweck
@jackdweck · Product Manager at Unroll.Me
@mscccc ShareMeow is my favorite new PH feature 🙌
Would love to be able to highlight a portion of a comment (kind of like Medium). And +1 to @jsneedles suggestion -- threading + GIFs would be awesome!
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
The daily email has been a big part of Product Hunt since the beginning (PH started as a simple email newsletter). We've been experimenting with new layouts and adding different types of content. I'm curious to know what aspects you all like, which areas do you think could be improved, and any ideas you have that we should explore. Also, which email digests do you subscribe to and love?
Ali Afridi
@alikafridi · VC @ Lightbank
@rrhoover I'd love to be able to customize the newsletter so that I only get products which specifically interest me. For example, only send me products that are available on iOS/Web and exclude crowdfunding campaigns. Ideally this would be something a user could toggle in their notification settings.
Email digests that I subscribe to which I really like are Daily140, Mattermark Daily, CBInsights, and a few bloggers that interest me.
Jeff Needles
@jsneedles · BI @ Meerkat & Maker of Things
@rrhoover I'm a fan of the classic email. I'd love it to be more responsive and more individualized. I've most likely seen the top 5 from yesterday (u know if i did/if i voted) - what did i miss that my friends liked (that i didn't see)
Jack Smith
@_jacksmith · Serial Entrepreneur & Startup Adviser
@rrhoover
I’d personally prefer things closer to how the emails were previously. Currently I feel that each product has a stupidly large product image and a tiny tiny hunter favicon.
I’d prefer more (tech) products listed and smaller (if any) product images.
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@alikafridi -- great idea. The emails are still manually created. Eventually we need to automate (most if not all) of it and include more personalization.
@_jacksmith -- good thoughts. The condense, list view of the original emails is nice, although sometimes the images (depending on the product) communicate much more than the tagline. Perhaps there's a hybrid of the two that might work best.
Mohsen Khalkhali
@mossibat · IoT investor @ Iratel Ventures
@rrhoover I love the collections suggestions. They feel curated and I have found several useful products in those. I find single products thru the website, but almost always discover collections thru email.
Jacob Bendicksen
@jacobbendicksen · student @yale
@rrhoover I agree with what @jsneedles said -- more of a "here's what you didn't see from yesterday" type thing rather than a straight top 5, since I've likely seen those.
That being said, the email is what got me into PH in the first place, so definitely keep it outsider-friendly.
Jeff Needles
@jsneedles · BI @ Meerkat & Maker of Things
Hi @ProductHunt.
I like making things. I like making things with the PH API.
Can you tell me how/if the API will be changing/evolving with coming features?
Frankly, the dev support up to this point has been pretty awesome! 😎
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Radoslav Stankov
@rstankov · Tech @ Product Hunt / AngelList
@jsneedles Our iOS app is build on top of our public API. Currently we expose most of the of Product Hunt functionality and we are doing our best to keep it up to date. That being said, since we are dogfooding it, we know most of its limitations and design flaws. We are already thinking for second version. It would most probably be a GraphQL api. But we that can change, since we haven't started working on it yet.
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Andreas Klinger
@andreasklinger · Tech at Product Hunt 💃
@jsneedles oi needles
so far we managed to not (*cough* almost not) break the api contracts
we use the api for all our own "external" services as well (ios, chrome, eg)
we will introduce a major version bump somewhere mid this year
our main concern with the api atm is that we inline too much content and cannot simply remove it without breaking the contract
we might start using an GraphQL - if we do we will most likely export it also to the public
edit: oops @rstankov was faster 😉
Ali Afridi
@alikafridi · VC @ Lightbank
@andreasklinger @jsneedles I love building things with the API as well. One thing I'd really like to see is a way to access the upcoming feed using the API!
Jeff Needles
@jsneedles · BI @ Meerkat & Maker of Things
@andreasklinger @jsneedles Awesome. It's awesome. You're awesome!
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Andreas Klinger
@andreasklinger · Tech at Product Hunt 💃
@alikafridi ali true - thx - we will add it