Comments on post “Siftery Trending Products”
Fred Rivett
@fredrivett · One half of @wecontrast
Interesting way to drill down on products, certainly more value than a simple stack/stash.
One thing I'd like to see is a "bootstrap" group, to see if there's any differences in the products used there.
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Gerry Giacoman Colyer
@ggiaco · Growth @ Siftery
@fredrivett Interesting! There are certain company characteristics that are relatively easy to identify (e.g. affiliation like a VC's portfolio, geography, company size) and then filter by those characteristics. So, we could create a filter for recommendations from users at Fortune 500 companies, for example.
If you mean bootstrapped companies, how would you suggest we identify bootstrapped companies? Can we do better than self-reported?
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Fred Rivett
@fredrivett · One half of @wecontrast
@ggiaco I'm not entirely sure Gerry. It would probably be a manual process. You could try and check to see if you can find out about funding rounds, and if not assume bootstrapped, but there'd probably be some errors with that method.
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Ranit Sanyal
@ronnhere · Co-founder @ RedElegant Design Studio
@ggiaco @fredrivett Suggestion is good. On the contrary, I am thinking if the product is good all will recommend it. Having a category like this will provide bootstrap companies an exposure for sure, but will it hamper the product ecosystem in certain way?
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Vamshi Mokshagundam
@vammok · Cofounder, Siftery
@ronnhere if you're indicating that promoting products from smaller, bootstrapped companies may introduce bias into the feed, you're right. on the other hand, mature products tend to have larger and more vocal user communities, often drowning out the signal from younger products. we're hoping to find a balance here by providing a platform for all products to get their users to recommend them and the best ones trend irrespective of whether they're bootstrapped or funded, and whether they've recently launched or been around a while.
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Ranit Sanyal
@ronnhere · Co-founder @ RedElegant Design Studio
@vammok We as a bootstrapped startup will be glad to have a section like this for our products as it will help us to get the limelight and reach to more people.
But yes the balance is necessary, and on a second thought, when a platform helps products to get an equal exposure (helping the bootstrapped products will help it) will be super awesome.
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