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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Today, we’re introducing Ask Product Hunt, a new community-powered product search engine.
As with many things we build, the idea was inspired by you. 🤗 Every day, people ask for product recommendations, often cc'ing @ProductHunt on Twitter. Now you can ask the community directly.
For the past 4 weeks, we've been sharing recommendations with a small group of beta testers in response to questions like:
📱 What's one app you use a lot, that most people don't know about? by @davidspinks
✏️ What's the best app for writing on MacOS? by @venikunche
✈️ What's the easiest way to create GIFs for the web? by @veronica
Would love your feedback and crazy ideas (special thanks to all the beta testers that helped so far 🙏🏼).
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Michael Sitver
@msitver · Curator @ Morning Short, Commute Kit
@rrhoover @producthunt @davidspinks @venikunche @veronica I love the idea. I think this is a great way to leverage the collective knowledge of the PH community.
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Filippo Gandellini
@filippo_gandellini · Pragmatical minimalist
@rrhoover @producthunt Awesome. Would be nice to have a topic/categories list and a search bar that searches trough all the questions
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@filippo_gandellini agree! We're adding topics and search soon.
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Krishna De
@krishnade · Digital strategist and speaker
@rrhoover @producthunt What a great idea - it would be nice to have a link to where we have contributed to answers and also submitted answers as a quick to find tab/link on our profiles
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Javier Ramos
@srjavierramos · Salesman, Trader, Investor, and Writer.
@rrhoover Could this evolve to something more like 21.co for @ProductHunt?🤔
Would be great to see a bitcoin reward next to the up-voting system🚀. Just saying😳
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Nick O'Neill
@allnick · CEO, Holler Inc.
@rrhoover @producthunt This is a random question but when did you all switch to using system fonts for the website and why? (https://www.smashingmagazine.com...) I'd be curious about the rationale behind that (as it really stands out to me on the new site). For Medium (who popularized it), it appears to only be used for action items but the core content still relies on their custom font.
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David Carpe
@passingnotes · Thinker & Layabout
@rrhoover awesome idea - and i'd love a weekly roundup newsletter if you decide to put one together!
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Mike Coutermarsh
@mscccc · Code @ Product Hunt
@allnick @rrhoover @producthunt Was at some point last week. I don't have the exact numbers available with now, but the custom font was a significant percentage of our render time. Removing it significantly boosts page speed (especially on mobile).
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Van Miranda
@van_miranda · Software Engineer
@rrhoover @producthunt awesome! One emergent or tangential use case for "Ask" might be a reversal of the model: instead of asking for product recommendations, you could allow people to submit their top "Problems that need solving" and potential founders could browse them for inspiration and even link / tie their products to the problems that they are trying to solve. This also would help focus any entrepreneurs on a Jobs-to-be-done feedback cycle with real people and problems. Any plans to introduce something like that?
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Saurabh Jambure
@sj_talks · Learner
@rrhoover @producthunt @davidspinks @venikunche @veronica This is awesome! Truly leveraging on power of PH community. Will help a lot!
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