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This thread is full of deflected answers urging people to take conversation to email. You responded 6 times in this thread -- 4 times were to tell people to go to email and 2 times were just to say thanks. What a lost opportunity to engage with product minded folk who were interested in the product @grmeyer

I honestly didn't expect Greg to tell me how much they paid for pro.com but I had to ask. ;) I heard what you're saying @taylorhou and @ffumarola but @grmeyer's a good guy and I'm excited to see him jump into startups from his previous role at Salesforce. :)

haha @rrhoover - I didn't expect @grmeyer to disclose either - I'm more with @ffumarola and the whole lost opportunity in engaging with product folk. going to be an interesting point in time for @producthunt as it's turning into a pretty solid lead gen/channel for marketing when done right and balancing submissions whose purpose is for marketing versus truly discovering awesome products will be a challenge. good problem to have and thus is #startuplife

@ffumarola - We look for publicly available sources of information to validate the pro and the quality of their work. This includes and is not limited to licensing information, rating information, and customer sentiment. In some cases we also reach out to the pro to ask additional questions.

@rrhoover I'm sure @grmeyer is a fantastic guy, I wouldn't insinuate otherwise! Still a missed opportunity. And honestly, I would stop coming to Product Hunt if every thread turns into "Hey, can you explain XYZ?" "Sure, go to our FAQ or email us!" I really like this community for the chance to engage with the people behind the products.

Looks like this might be Product Hunt's first "Rampart" moment. Live and learn.

@grmeyer Cool! Probably in response to part of @adamsigel's question so I'll tag him here. Contracting is a really tough space due to how easy it is for contractors to form new companies to abandon their bad reputation, how costly mistakes are (e.g. hiring the wrong person can be *catastrophic*), and how impactful even seemingly small things can be on choosing the right contractor (e.g. this is a great roofer UNLESS you have a slate roof). I worked with Adrian Talapan a bit on sussing out his vision for "HouseFix" and the premise was that the recommendations from around you (your neighborhood) and from your friends are more valuable than the recommendations from random people. Any plans to add some element of adding more weight to reviews that are in close proximity to you or reviews from your friends?

@ffumarola - trying to learn here as well - would love a pointer to Q&As that are more inline with what you expected.

@ffumarola awesome idea and will share with the team

@grmeyer here are 4 that I thought were pretty great back and forths http://www.producthunt.co/posts/... http://www.producthunt.co/posts/... http://www.producthunt.co/posts/... http://www.producthunt.co/posts/... Many more, but they were all pretty recent and convos that I was part of (and thus familiar with).