Comments on post “Siftery Trending Products”
John Fowler
@johnsteerfowler · Founder, Zero Host
Great job on this site guys. My only comment would be for the 'Trending Products' to be a little more up-and-coming and unknown? This might just be my opinion, but at the moment Slack, Github etc are software tools that are pretty much ingrained in this type of community/culture. I for one didn't 'discover' anything new until I clicked 'Show More' a few times. But otherwise, fantastic work, keep it up.
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Vamshi Mokshagundam
@vammok · Cofounder, Siftery
@steerj92 john, we believe that the community will float up a lot of the relatively less well-known products, at t=0 the bias will be towards products with an already broad user base. one way we're countering this is to boost products that are getting good sentiment in a short period of time, you'll see these as "wild cards". that said, more work to do. many thanks for your feedback!
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John Fowler
@johnsteerfowler · Founder, Zero Host
@vammok Thanks for the response. It sounds like you are already working towards fixing this, I totally understand that early on the already popular products will make their way to the top, but like you say, building something in to allow fantastic unknown products to be featured would be a great addition. Thanks for coming back to me and good luck with the site's future
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Gerry Giacoman Colyer
@ggiaco · Growth @ Siftery
@steerj92 Thanks for the feedback! We're certainly trying to strike the right balance.
In addition to the curated "wildcards", we're calculating recommends on a 30 day rolling basis so that any product can have a chance at exposure. Since a user can only recommend a product once, over time the more obvious products should find it relatively more difficult to get new recommendations.
Additionally, by adding filters for recommendations from only certain groups (e.g. 'Unicorn' startup companies) the impact of exhausting the available votes might be even more noticeable (e.g. If all unicorn users recommend Slack in January, there would be no unicorn user votes left for Slack in February).
Let us know if you have any more ideas - thoughts; this is something we're thinking about quite a bit!
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John Fowler
@johnsteerfowler · Founder, Zero Host
@ggiaco That makes a lot of sense. Thank you for the additional information. I have recently been comparing various email marketing software by using the traditional methods such as Google and the firm's Features/Pricing pages. I must say, it was nice to have access to a single list of the email marketing software available and see some basic comparisons, so I instantly see the usefulness of this site. Any plans to bring in Pricing/Features to the comparisons?
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