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Nathan Bashaw
@nbashaw · Co-founder and CEO of Hardbound
Hey! Idea for you: I had to submit my email before you show the "ask a question now" button - why? You'd probably get a higher quality and quantity of questions by encouraging people to submit questions as soon as they see there is going to be a live chat.
Speaking of LIVE chats, you now have a huge archive of great material! Including blog posts on Medium that sum up each talk. Any plans to make the wisdom contained in them more discoverable?
Speaking of evergreen content, do you have any plans to make a product's PH page a better ongoing resource? For example, I'm not sure it makes a ton of sense to have separate PH pages for big updates, but people obviously want to re-submit to PH to get a chance to get more exposure and feedback from the community on the new thing they just shipped. It could be cool to have a "release timeline" or something like that for each product, and to think of product pages as more evergreen landing pages on PH, and less as specific announcements about something new. Does that make sense?
Anyway, just throwing out a bunch of ideas! Would love to hear your feedback :)
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Alexandre Mouriec
@mrcalexandre · Associate @ Argos VR | Writer @ Stuffi
@nbashaw Hi,
I agree with you, Makers share lots of good advice during Live chats and when they launch products. This knowledge should be used more. The summaries sent by email are really useful but maybe a newsletter about only advice and great material could help.(a weekly newsletter "PH Wisdom")
Btw, sounds like a great way to use Hardbound for that, like @jrdngonen did there https://www.hardbound.co/read/ph... 😉
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Adam Marx
@adammarx13 · CEO, Glipple, Inc.
@nbashaw I agree with you about the Product Hunt LIVE material -- there's a wealth of knowledge and great material which I would love to be able to search through either by subject, guest, or date. @rrhoover, this could be a great way to get people to re-engage with past material. Even a year's worth of stuff might yield new perspectives. 😉
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@nbashaw yo, Nathan! The LIVE Chat is entirely visible once it starts. Before then, people are asked to enter their email to "sign up" for a reminder before they're given a preview to ask a question early. We may change this.
Re: LIVE Chats, there's a toooon of great content that could be summarized or presented in a more accessible way. We've even talked about building a separate mobile app just for this. Maybe we'll make a coffee table book similar to reddit's AMA book. We've decided not to focus on this and instead center our efforts more toward product discovery.
Re: evergreen content, there's a huge opportunity here. Some describe it as the IMDB for products" (see @hunterwalk's blog post). There are a number of things needed to make this work. How would you (or anyone reading this) design it?
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Jordan Gonen
@jrdngonen
@rrhoover @nbashaw Regrading the Live Chats - I view these chats almost like "stories" into people's lives and their perspectives. If only there were an app that did a good job of "storytelling" on mobile (I know we tried once https://www.producthunt.com/post... , any thoughts here?) ;)
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Kunal Bhatia
@kunalslab · Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp
@rrhoover @nbashaw @hunterwalk love the timeline/IMDB idea. Was just trying to figure this out with API.AIs history and ended up having to open all 4 of their hunts, read the threads, check the dates, etc.
Ryan - any thoughts on what would be a productive way for someone to design this? Are you looking for sketches/prototypes or something else?
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John Meese
@johnrmeese · Dean of Platform University
@nbashaw While I was thinking about what to suggest, I browsed the other suggestions here... and you know what? Rather than add to the noise I'd rather just add my voice here in that I think the "evergreen" side of Product Hunt is the least developed so far. In terms of discoverability and product pages... right now if you access an old "hunt" the prominent date telling you when it was featured immediately implies that the content is outdated.
I like Nathan's idea of having a core page for each product (almost like a product profile) with info on industry, purpose, pricing, and makers or company but then releasing each major feature update (or the original "hunt" for that product) as a separate Product Hunt post. That way there's one core page to refer back to for product info, and that opens up the use of Product Hunt to more of a go-to reference for everyone in the tech space when comparing software / tools.
Think Wikipedia / IMDP for products with functionality similar to http://alternativeto.net/
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@kunalslab the big question to answer is why would a maker or community member visit this "evergreen" page after the initial launch that isn't already captured in the current UX and content? We have some thoughts on this but I don't want to influence others' ideas. 😊
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@johnrmeese an important observation: "right now if you access an old "hunt" the prominent date telling you when it was featured immediately implies that the content is outdated." Thanks, John!
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