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Where can you find ideas for topics on Product Hunt?

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I sometimes get questions on LinkedIn from people who come from Product Hunt:

"What should I post about so that my thread is approve / featured?"

"I want to be more visible, so I need to contribute. About what?"

Apart from the fact that posts should comply with the community guidelines, I don't have an exact answer.

But I can share where I come up with topics:

  1. I react to the latest events (I follow TechCrunch, Social Media Today, Hacker News, Twitter)

  2. I discuss my own problems (which arise from building and my work in marketing)

  3. I react to topics that have already been discussed here in the past – try also looking at the discussion history

  4. I comment on products that was launched here

So far, I haven't messed anything up with this approach.

Maybe the question is:

What topics do you find easiest to write about in the tech space?

(We can brainstorm ways to make your post more publishable.)

P.S. Inspire by other creators here. Lately, I really like discussions made by

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I find this too a challenge, most especially having to devout and divide your daily time to feed your system with knowledge online, trends, updates, and trying to build a presence. That building a value-able presence is much more harder because you have to find topics to talk on like you've just said, and try to read posts so as to comment on them; also personally you have to be consistent, as the world is much advancing rapidly now, with lots of skills going up and down.

I agree with your method of finding elsewhere, paraphrasing and adding your own perspective to it, then make it yours, at least that way you have something to give and audience to build, among others.

The threads that work for me are the ones where I have a number nobody else can look up. Not an opinion about pricing, the actual 12x cost gap between two actions inside my own product. People scroll past a take and they'll argue with a number, and the argument is the thread. Downside is I can write maybe two of those a month, and the rest of the time I've got nothing worth posting, which I've decided is fine.