tom meagher
@tomfme · now is good.
What's the next big milestone @rrhoover? 250K users, 20K products, 1.5MM upvotes (or something else)?
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product 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.
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Sebastian A. Steins
@sebastiansteins · Sebastian Steins
@thomasmeagher @rrhoover How about integrating outbound traffic info in the API (would love to see the product url w/o redirect there, too, btw ;) )
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tom meagher
@tomfme · now is good.
@rrhoover 10M 😳 Wow, that's a ton of eyeballs for makers.
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@sebastiansteins we're considering adding that! Other than deriving interesting stats, how would you use it?
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Sebastian A. Steins
@sebastiansteins · Sebastian Steins
@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 ;-)
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Jade Clark
@jadenyc · PR/Branding Consultant
@sebastiansteins "product featured on PH got this investment on average" I also find this super interesting. A lot of really cool products get featured at such an earlier stage in their development, I'm still cautious to invest at times as a consumer. Have a, "would love to see what they're doing 3-6 months from now," sort of moment.
Would be cool to have a search option like this to see progress on past 'hunts' or a bookmark type tool for recent 'hunts' you want to check back in on w/ an alert.
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