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@jsneedles · BI @ Meerkat & Maker of Things

Hi All, Ever wanted to watch PH unfold throughout the day? Me too! How’s it work? It’s pretty simple… Just load the page, set your category preferences and watch as votes/comments & new posts pour in. You can do things like condense the view & see only the top 10 items. You can check out the images view, for a fun look at the landscape. You can even fly to the moon (not using PH Today)! Another cool thing is the graphs. Click the little icon and you’ll get a nice history for the day like this:

But, Why? I 💗 Product Hunt, and the data fascinates me. You can see my previous PH API endeavors, and I’ve been thinking about this idea since before the new front page was launched. So I built it. But, Tell me more! This might be my last product of 2015. I’m totally open to feedback. What do you like? What do you dislike? What are you doing for New Years? LMK! 💯😀💃

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Ben Tossell

@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt

@jsneedles not doing much for New Years... probably keeping an eye on Product Hunt :) Would be interesting to see how this could be incorporated into PH directly... Ultimately is this a way to try and get people to not visit the Product Hunt pages (with the exception of the post page) and to just jump on the bandwagon of what is popular and rising quickly? I could see some people doing that.

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Jeff Needles

@jsneedles · BI @ Meerkat & Maker of Things

@bentossell @jsneedles definitely not! I built this as a dashboard for those of us who refresh the homepage very frequently. By pointing out those with changes to comments + new posts - I hope to encourage more ppl to get into more discussions. That's why I have the comment counts always present 💯

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Daniel Kempe

@danielkempe · Co-Founder @ Quuu.co

@jsneedles Yea, I agree, PH would be perfect with realtime action!!

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exex zian

@exexzian · Software Engineer

@jsneedles liked it as it makes switching b/w PH categories soooo easy... And real-time updates ... Fantastical

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Will Roper

@wwr228

@jsneedles hey this is a cool idea! I think it would useful/interesting to have a notification button or dropdown that shows how things have changed if you have been away. For example, I have PH Today open, but I am currently in another tab. After awhile I go back to the PHT tab, and see that things have changed. It would be cool if I could click a button to see exactly what has changed while you were away: "PH Today: 30 new up votes, 8 new comments." "Spotify Party: 25 new up votes, 5 new comments." Just a thought for an easier way to understand and track the data if you aren't constantly looking at the PHT.