Comments on post “Uberhunters”
Thomas K. Running
@tkrunning · Nomad, Teleport
Really beautiful product, but the way I see it there is a fundamental issue with the ranking (please correct me if I'm wrong): You are mixing up correlation and causation. It isn't ranking influential Product Hunters, but rather "Product Hunters with mainstream taste that tend to vote early in the day" (favoring European users that log on before lunch).
Am I missing something? If not, how will you deal with this issue?
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Johannes N
@jollife · Dev Lead, Swat.io
@kjemperud thx for your valuable input! of course, European users have a better chance to receive a bigger score - but this is something we can't address on our own since we're more or less bound to the timezone ph is using.
we started the project one and a half week ago and tested 3 different approaches and found the current to be the best. what formula or criteria would you prefer?
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Ross@GoLocalApps
@golocalapps · GoLocalApps
@kjemperud That was my first thought - that you'd be winning the leader board unless I stayed up till midnight to hit the first couple of links.
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Thomas K. Running
@tkrunning · Nomad, Teleport
@jollife I don't have the answer to how you should do it. It's a challenge, and might require some more advanced weighting of various variables, such as who else upvotes the same products, and their typical influence. This would not be easy to get right, but currently the scores are rather meaningless (other than for identifying mainstream European users). But I'm guessing this is a side project, so might not be worth dealing with.
Again, beautiful product. I especially like the comparison tool :)
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Johannes N
@jollife · Dev Lead, Swat.io
@kjemperud yes, it started as a small side project, but our aim was a leaderboard, which everyone can really use. we will tweak the underlying formula over time, so please check back in couple of days!
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