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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
hey, all! As the community’s grown, so has the diversity of things submitted. We just launched Topics, a new way to discover and share things on Product Hunt. There’s a topic for Drones, Slack, Health and Fitness, Emojis (😁), Pranking (one of my favorites), Dating, Cats (of course) and even Trump.
Each Topic is curated by the community so they’re up-to-date and comprehensive. While Collections are awesome (fun fact: you’ve all created more than 95k collections, curating over 500k products, games, books, and podcasts 😱) and still very useful, we found that people created a collection for the same thing and often they wouldn’t stay updated. Topics are curated by everyone and to avoid duplicates, there can only be one Virtual Reality Topic, for example.
We’re starting with 300 Topics and will soon be adding more that you suggest. Explore and follow you favorites here and let us know what Topics you’d like to see created. Super excited to see how this evolves. 😊
P.S. Nice overview from Buzzfeed's @Kantrowitz here.
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@rrhoover woohoo 👯
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Mubashar Iqbal
@mubashariqbal · 2016 Maker of the Year.
@rrhoover This is a great addition!
Obvious question, when is this data going to be available in the API? 🚀
Oh and can I suggest a "Product Hunt" topic 😀
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Nate Smith
@imns81 · Founder @ Gratify
@rrhoover This is great, I love the random Topics, like socks and alarm clocks 😀
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Paul Papadimitriou
@papadimitriou · Founder, Intelligencr. Air travel nerd.
@rrhoover this is perfect! This is exactly what I was doing with my collection AirTech (aviation) and many other collections I've seen act the same way. Thank you for this great update!!
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Glenn Rothwell
@glennrothwell · CEO, Coast Designwear
@rrhoover Definitely want to see FashTech as well! Loving this added functionality.
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@mubashariqbal tomorrow! 😀
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Mubashar Iqbal
@mubashariqbal · 2016 Maker of the Year.
@rrhoover SWEEEEET 💥😎 More cool visualizations coming!
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Francois Le Nguyen
@flenguyen · Product Sponge
@rrhoover Is there a preferred method for suggestions? Would love to see a Product Management topic =)
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Kalina Zografska
@kzograf · Product fella @trygigster
@rrhoover @mubashariqbal Pivoting for new concepts and APIs are awesome! <3 cc @rstankov
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@flenguyen yeah! If you don't see a Topic in the autocomplete, you can suggest a new one like this:
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Robert Gawdzik
@rgawdzik · UWaterloo CS
@rrhoover @kantrowitz WiFi should be a topic :)
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@rgawdzik agreed! We'll add to the list.
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Scrivs
@scrivs · Creation Scientist, Makers Mob
@rrhoover If every product under a topic gets added there how is that curation? Shouldn't the term be "categorized" instead?
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@scrivs we're continuing to tweak how things are displayed on the topic page but in short things with the post upvotes for the week appear toward the top, so it's a combination of curation and categorization if you want the firehose.
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Francois Le Nguyen
@flenguyen · Product Sponge
@rrhoover Just did for ProdPad, awesome new feature guys!
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aj
@ajlkn · Maker of stuff.
@mubashariqbal @rrhoover Also a "Product Hunt Topics" topic, because we can go deeper.
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Daniel Lee
@dleesta · Product Manager
@rrhoover @kantrowitz loving Topics so far. Would be great to be able to filter items within a topic based on: date, upvotes, and who upvoted.
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Drew Moxon
@moxon · Product, Facebook Messenger
@rrhoover suggested the Messenger topic on a bunch of hunts! you probably now have 30 new requests of mine :D
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Tony (WooRockets)
@woorockets
@rrhoover @kantrowitz good to have
1. Search feature on the Topics page, so we easily find the topic that we want to follow and contribute :) http://take.ms/TYDp5
2. Nice to have "ecommerce" topic... just because my team and I believe many people would be interested too. eCommerce is booming with growth of WooCommerce & Shopify :)
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Jonathan Salomon
@solojon · Technologist, Orange Silicon Valley
@rrhoover @kantrowitz What's the difference between Home and Smart Home?
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David Carpe
@passingnotes · Thinker & Layabout
@scrivs I agree - it's an awesome idea, but it's technically a tag that acts as a category once all products are sorted in real time, because I can't imagine that a single product will go unbound to some tag...maybe they should require at least 400 or 500 votes?
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Tyler Mathews
@tymathews · Cyberflaneur
@rrhoover @flenguyen when will this happen? Don't see that option for me yet and I do believe I'm running on the PH beta. I'd love to see an arts tech category.
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