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Olivier El Mekki
@oelmekki · maker
Thanks :)
It's been only a week since I play with it, so I still am discovering myself :)
What I noticed, though, is a incredible amount of "save for later" collections, all named exactly like that, with just caps changing (that's why I've included a filter for those). There are still small variations, though (like "later", or native language based names).… See more
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Olivier El Mekki
@oelmekki · maker
A bit of technical background on this for those interested.
Writing an API client for product hunt in a chrome extension is quite straightforward, the main problem being that you will need an oauth token from user to access API.
I could not figure a way to do the oauth authorization directly from the extension (you can't display authorization page in an if… See more
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Awesome job, @oelmekki! We're currently doing a heavy redesign of the product pages to include collections a product is a part of. The tricky thing is to filter out (1) incomplete collections that only have a few products added and (2) troll collections where someone adds "product x" to their "stupid apps" collection.
Did you discover any interesting patt… See more
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Olivier El Mekki
@oelmekki · maker
Hi there,
After releasing Hunting Cabin, I saw, almost by chance, it was put in a collection. I realized I had no mean to see the list of collections my product was put in. There was an API endpoint for that, so I decided to make an extension.
After a week of usage, it has had an unexpected result: there is a secondary PH experience, here. After reading po… See more
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Olivier El Mekki
@oelmekki · maker
Thanks :)
It's been only a week since I play with it, so I still am discovering myself :)
What I noticed, though, is a incredible amount of "save for later" collections, all named exactly like that, with just caps changing (that's why I've included a filter for those). There are still small variations, though (like "later", or native language based names).… See more