Meta Hunt

This is super cool. 😀 @thomasmeagher - A lot of this data are vanity metrics, to be honest. Although we do want to have more registered users, many people use Product Hunt for months without logging in. The majority of people are silent consumers and derive a lot of value from Product Hunt. What's more important is that we're helping people discover useful or interesting products that people want to use, buy, and share. A proxy for this is outbound (repeated) traffic. We now drive well over 3.5M visits to products every month. I'll do a fist pump when we reach 10M... soon.

@thomasmeagher @rrhoover How about integrating outbound traffic info in the API (would love to see the product url w/o redirect there, too, btw ;) )

@rrhoover 10M 😳 Wow, that's a ton of eyeballs for makers.

@sebastiansteins we're considering adding that! Other than deriving interesting stats, how would you use it?

@rrhoover The hunt's domain? I would use it to track how startups did over time... The domain is unique, so that I thought about checking angel.co or crunchbase for investment filings, jobs, press etc so that you can come up with s/th like "product featured on PH got this investment on average"... Just a bit like a first attempt with "Product Hunt and BetaList" on metahunt.co/stats . Ok, that are statistics, again ;-)

@v4violetta No, you can use the buttons and arrows to navigate to any date you like ;)

@v4violetta @sebastiansteins Have been wanting to do an almost TBT look at the companies that were featured on Product Hunt a year or 6 months ago. Just to see if they are still around and what has changed, so you have saved me a ton of time.

@v4violetta @sebastiansteins @ryanmccready1 if you're on iOS, check out Product Hunt Time Machine.

@dylanfeltus Yes, there are plans. I'll keep you updated!