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Brandon Swift
@jbswuft · CTO, Yovigo.com
Hunter List is like Fantasy Football for Product Hunt where your "players" are the products you vote on.
Hunter List is a leaderboard for product "hunters" on Product Hunt. We monitor actions people take on producthunt.com and calculate an intuition-based metric based on the success of the products they support. We call this metric "Juice".
Our target user would be the hunters themselves. We'd like to spawn competition in the product hunt community for who is able to pick the best products the earliest. In addition, Hunter List can be used as a tool to gauge a hunter's intuition. This can be useful in deciding whose advice to take when making an investment in a company as their "Juice" rank will quickly let someone determine how consistently correct a hunter is about products they support.
Also, I wanted to let people know what their juice score is, but didn't want to purchase or generate an SSL Cert to use twitter's API. So I'm caching an RSS feed, connected to IFTTT that will tweet people's scores, tweet cool products from product hunt, and tweet random stupid things about liking juice! Since IFTTT won't let you @mention people in a tweet, I'm routing the tweets through Buffer.
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Ross Currie
@rossdcurrie · Founder, CrowdLoot
@swiftyovigo This is great - like a list of the most influential people from a userbase comprised of influential people
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Brandon Swift
@jbswuft · CTO, Yovigo.com
@rossdcurrie Exactly! Thanks for the kind words and the upvote :)
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Brandon Swift
@jbswuft · CTO, Yovigo.com
@rossdcurrie I'd like to add, too, that its not just about influence even though influence is a factor. It's more about the ability to pick products that will rank high AFTER you pick them. So juice is a measure of intuition, meaning the more juice you have the more likely things you believe in will do well.
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Ross Currie
@rossdcurrie · Founder, CrowdLoot
@swiftyovigo @rossdcurrie That confuses me a bit... I think you migiht mean one of two things:
1) You're measuring whether a product will get more upvotes after the particular person upvotes it.
2) You mean that the particular person is good at upvoting things (early) which later become popular?
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Brandon Swift
@jbswuft · CTO, Yovigo.com
@rossdcurrie #2 is more of what i meant. However, assuming #2, #1 would be a byproduct proportional to the person's influence over the community.
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