I'm sure you've gotten this one before, but invite others to help update your collection and somehow edit ones root path so if I'm interested in books and not tech I land on books.
@danoliverlandy the new front page will encompass all channels -- tech, books, games, podcasts, and more. I'd also love to add support for collaborative collections!
A crazy idea ?..Ok. An accredited investor upvote button that is limited for investors (e.g.weekly) Which then, with enough upvote, puts them in the running for Session/batch/tribe/ season 1 of PHaccelerator 😜 or you get golden ticket to YC
@rrhoover@edch2020 I forgot to mention the auto-scheduler (with enough investor upvotes) to "the pitch" podcast or blab where over 1k investors would watch live (finders fee?) , I was refueling the delorean, side note: you guys know October 21, 2015, the time Marty puts on the clock and to save his future self is upon us.
One suggestion would be a purge (or archiving) of products that are no longer 'live'. It's amazing, but perhaps not, that so many products have launched and disappeared in the time that ProductHunt has been alive. Perhaps a way to report these products
@rossdcurrie we currently flag these posts with a lovely 👻 but they're still discoverable. Even though the product is no longer available, I believe there's value in the "archive" of discussion.
That said, we should devalue it in search and filter them out from collections.
@hrishio this has been suggested many times and I'm confident a subset of the PH community would use and love it; however, I'm not sure it's the most important thing for us to build or something even the majority of PH users will regularly use. I could be wrong though!
@decktonic we've thought a lot about that. Our concern is that collection creators will be spammed with suggestions. This happened when I took over the on-startups Medium collection a while ago. I started to receive tons of emails and requests from writers asking for me to add their essay to the collection. It was frustrating.
That said, I think there's a way we could do this to help people create and update great collections without frustrating the community.
@rrhoover@decktonic I was wondering if the fact that you could only submit approved PH products would mitigate that. How many products get added to PH each day? Also, if there was a limit to how many products you can suggest for collections, maybe that could help?
@rrhoover I would love to see a channel of Product Hunt named Dollar a Month Club. Users that wanted access to this channel would pay $12 per year. Then, they could submit/vote on ideas for what to do with everyone's collected money. The post with the most votes every month would be done ie) Buy a billboard in San Francisco that says "We are all human! Be nice!"
@rrhoover@abe_storey I would too! It'd be a fascinating social experiment plus a good way for Product Hunt to monetize (take a commision on the $12). :)
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I would like new products separate from new versions and established products
@vbarnett323 great idea. I'd love to create a timeline for products, from pre-launch, launch, to updates.
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@rrhoover@vbarnett323 ICYMI, I've been digging http://www.startlin.es/timelines/ recently. Beautiful and great for users to dial-in to specific points of time of interest. Startlin.es is purely informational - I'd imagine a timeline on ProductHunt could be much more than just informational for makers & users!
Love the community involvement to help with the future of PH. Keepin' it real.
I'd like to be able to search for products the way I would naturally ask someone for it. Maybe a PH SearchBot that I can naturally ask things like:
"Are there any products that would help me to convert Sketch designs to HTML?"
"Show me products that would help me improve my writing using the power of the community."
"Show me products that have been made by Jonny Appleseed"
Or even
"How has ACME 3000 done since they got hunted last March?"
That last question can then gather PH stats along with relevant info from Alexa or Mattermark, etc.
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This is something I've been thinking about for a few weeks and would absolutely do everything in my power to get done: deep research and analysis built on top of PH.
Consider each submission as a data snapshot, and you have a pretty compelling dataset that you can layer on context and kind of connect the dots - historically ("Lean is built on Toyota which is built on Boyd's OODA loop"), technologically ("Bubble picks up where Flash left off with actionscript"), and even in terms of people ("Costolo built Feedburner which made RSS standard").
I could go write that elsewhere, but integration could make it into a very cool conversation at the heart of the ecosystem that makes everyone smarter and helps us, as a collective, see what's coming next.
@shloky very interesting. There's a ton of data captured within PH that we aren't yet exploring. We're starting to expose more social signals and will soon better surface products trending among your friends. But there are less obvious things we can do here, too.
Some ideas, sorted most-practical-first
-A way to see a single-page, readable, copy-pasteable list of all voters (so I can thank them etc, follow the interesting ones, or just browse thru). Would this allow spamming? Maybe open it only to the product's maker.
-Open up adding "similar products" to a wider audience, this is missing or not complete a lot of times - a lot of viewers are experts in a certain field and can easily add good product matches
-Hall of fame section, with best products, makers, hunters, voters
-Add team location to every product, and show it on a map together with the similar products (is there a niche industry growing in that town?)
-"Product journey" - Next/Previous buttons on every product page, leading to the next most-similar product. This could lead to some surprising insights!
@mmariansky great ideas! I'm not sure we should make it easy for makers (or anyone) to "spam" people on Twitter with thanks. I know some people get annoyed by it and the appreciation often isn't genuine.
We do have next/previous buttons to browse through posts on the front page and/or collections, but I think they could be more obvious and "fun". :)
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