Follow Hunt

Product Hunt for people. Best people to follow, every day

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Product Hunt for people. Best people to follow, every day

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Great job!! It seems like there was a need for this product! A suggestion from someone who analyzes words for a living (attorney), you may want to reconsider the adjectives "worthy" and "best." In this context, these adjectives are describing individuals not products; thus those adjectives might not be appropriate. For example, by same logic, individuals that are not chosen to be posted are by definition "not worthy." Eek. Over time, this may cause build up of negative energy from your membership. Conversely, it appears "best" has a different connotation in tech, so that verb might be okay. I'm not sure?? Thank you for your consideration. Thank you for the the product.

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11yr ago

Follow Hunt

Maker

@leasemolina great! thank you for your consideration and advice. we will think about it.

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11yr ago

Book Your Sales

@leasemolina I would second this.

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11yr ago

Nice work, clean and easy to understand. Think there is a good opportunity to produce the "easier to use" version of LinkedIn, where you search for a simple term and location (find me the best "marketing" people in "Los Angeles" and get a list of results). A few questions: - how do you plan to develop an objective criteria for including people? (avoid popularity contest) - how do you mine signal from noise? - how do you let the People Hunter tune the result to see "more results like me" or "more people who are likely to be interesting for me to follow"? Thanks!

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11yr ago

I Code Dis

@grmeyer Did you see Who Hunt that was featured 2 days ago? http://www.producthunt.com/posts... I also considered some of the things you mentioned, and integrated Who Hunt with AngelList so that it's easier to filter the results into something more relevant. @kateserinka - Sorry to highjack the Follow Hunt thread! Good luck with Follow Hunt, and I think it's an interesting way to provide a daily list of suggested followers. It's also nice that Follow Hunt has integrated the other social networks like Twitter, Instagram, etc..

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11yr ago

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Maker

@grmeyer thanks, Greg. 1-2 . It is all about community. We plan to build strong community with moderators and upcoming section similar to PH. Since we plan to support many different social networks we need bunch of moderators and people who is interested to separate the wheat from the chaff. 3. We will introduce search, similar people, collections and internal following mechanism. Based on what you upovoted, whom you follow, what kind of collections you like and which tags you use to search we will provide our suggestions. I know it is high level, but we are constantly thinking about this. Stay tuned :)

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11yr ago

Follow Hunt

Maker

@carolskelly your product is great. i liked it. it has very focused and intuitive usage.

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11yr ago

Have you noticed that there is only one woman on the list? That's not the "best people to follow" IMO. Most people in tech already know and follow 90% of this list. Perpetuating the notion that the "best" people to follow are all visible men (in tech and around it) is dangerous.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@stttories don't worry, as a female founder i promise you ill take care of it :) this is a just first day. please go ahead and submit your favorite female accounts.

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11yr ago

Follow Hunt

Maker

@stttories don't worry, as a female founder i promise you ill take care of it :) this is a just first day. please go ahead and submit your favorite female accounts.

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11yr ago

@kateserkina @stttories As a woman working in a technical space, we have to consciously try to build inclusive spaces because no one else is going to do it for us. I'd definitely recommend prepopulating it with women before tomorrow. But I'll add some ladies and POC later.

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11yr ago

Horizon

I don't mean to be a naysayer, but do you think the average person is actually seeking to find new people to follow on a daily basis? There's already too much noise, I'm more interested in weeding my list down. It would be helpful to "hide" everyone that I'm already following upon login...no reason to show me people I already know.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@drewmeyers thanks for your comment. Personally I believe that people need it and feedback we got even here prove it more than less. Second thing daily updates is only part of the web site. We need it to be dynamic. Another part is powerful search and collections will add more value. Good suggestion about hiding people you already following! Thanks, we will consider.

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11yr ago

Follow Hunt

Maker

@drewmeyers We appreciate your feedback, Drew! Yes, we understand that nowadays people can be lost in their accounts and everyday news feeds (sometimes useless). And actually our aim is to help these people find accounts they need and like. You ll be able to (1) build your own collections (open and closed) from different social utilities in one place and (2) upgrade your collections with new interesting accounts that you can choose by filters, other users' collections or daily published accounts. It will be an alive community where real people can submit and upvote their fav accounts. Simple and transparent. (3) we are trying to build the easiest search-system and interface to save our users' time.

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11yr ago

Book Your Sales

I'd also suggest you have clear guidelines. Is this people to follow or companies? The front page is all people except for Wonderful Places. Will it only be real people or will it also be personas (@BoredElonMusk or @StartupLJackson)?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@sacbookreviewer personas and people should be fine. companies - not sure, may be as a part of our future monetization model. we may need to change 'people' to 'social network profiles or accounts', but it does not sound good, right? :)

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11yr ago

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Maker

@sacbookreviewer Thank you for your feedback and advice, we ll make some changes. Yes, Follow Hunt is for accounts and it will look more clear once we ll start categorized the accounts we have by themes and topics. So our dear users could find easily accounts they looking for according to their requests and interests. Also, having most of social media networks we d ll to create a trustful transparent upvote system.

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11yr ago

I Code Dis

This is cool. Kind of like a daily top 20 of my "Who Hunt" (http://www.producthunt.com/posts...). What kind of sorting/ranking algorithm is used?

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11yr ago

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Maker

@carolskelly thank you :) who hunt is really well made. people are sorted by the number of upvotes, time since submission, and other factors.

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11yr ago