I'm a member and I love the energy in the community and how helpful everyone is. As for the AMA's, they're... beyond.
Should be writing some sort of roundup one of these days. ;)
Just over 3 weeks ago, we created a community for Product Hunt makers to get together and share information that wouldn't fit into the discussion right on Product Hunt. I talk briefly about that here: https://medium.com/@erictwillis/....
It has blossomed to 100s of makers who share interesting content, network for job opportunities, provide feedback for pre-launch products, and a host of other things. We've also done daily AMAs with great entrepreneurs who've been gracious enough to share their valuable perspectives with the community. The idea is to help makers become better makers and hopefully launch better products on Product Hunt.
Soon, we'll be releasing some tools that will also help "non-makers" contribute
Keep up the good work @erictwillis ! Loved the ama with @sandimac and hear her stories on Quibb & PH :D Also met some great makers so far that I'm looking forward to keeping in touch with.
Amazing platform to further connect with other makers and share detailed learnings!
@christoy@_bgian@daspianist etc ;)
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Wanted to join because I love the idea of chatting on Slack with other ppl in the PH community but it looks like it's currently open to "makers." Any timeline as to when people working on things can join?
@daveparkhere Hey Dave! We're working on a more open system right now that will enable people who's product isn't on ProductHunt (yet) to join us. In terms of timeline I can't promise anything, but we're definitely aiming to get it working this month! (If you went through the signup flow on the site & signed up for the email-list you'll be notified as soon as it's ready!)
Soo excited to finally see this on PH! 👏 😄
I've already made several valuable connections in the Maker Hunt community. Embed Hunt (http://www.producthunt.com/posts...) was the result of some of those connections, and I'm sure you'll see more startups/products come out of Maker Hunt in the future!
Oh, and the AMA's are wonderful! I love getting to know the people behind the products 😏 thanks @erictwillis, @mubashariqbal, @sleinadsanoj, @bentossell, @remco_verhoef & @imcatnoone for all your work putting this together. I'm very excited to be a part!
I've been really impressed with the work that Eric, Jonas and Mubashar (really hoping I'm not forgetting anyone) have done a great job of getting the community off the ground. They may be surprised to hear this as I suspect I'm also their most consistent critic, but to their everlasting credit they've created an energetic, diverse, intelligent and helpful community.
Edit: realized I had forgotten Ben's work on archiving the AMAs - which is also much appreciated.
@mbuckbee Thanks so much Michael! (Eric & I actually get a lot of our daily talking points from your criticism, so please do keep it up, you're helping us immensely in figuring out what we can do to make Maker Hunt better!)
Very happy to have been part of the team that created Maker Hunt.
I think the coolest thing is that we've already seen some new products created by people who met on Maker Hunt.
Domino Spot
Stark
Startup TV
Yolk.fm
thirdweb
Gimlet
IP Lookup by Wafris
thirdweb
Startup TV
World Cup Next
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Polarr
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