If you could improve one thing about Product Hunt, what would it be?
Olena Bomko
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For me, it's how Product Hunt features products on the homepage. Sometimes, it's difficult to understand the criteria.
What about you?
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Grayson Lily @grayson_lily
More transparency on how votes and comments influence rankings would be great.
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This as well but for me these 2 things:
– Bookmarking conversation as some hints are beneficial.
– Bots. – it is quite disturbing.
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@olenabomko @umar_saleem I also noticed it, Umar. I am okay with the idea that everyone should get an equal chance to be featured but it feels like suppressing in some cases. Life is not fair but hardly to expect a good opinion about this platform when there will be a kind of "totalism". AKA welcome to the virtual SK republic lol :D
@olenabomko @busmark_w_nika If everyone gets an equal chance of being featured, it would be fine.
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@busmark_w_nika @olenabomko @umar_saleem 100 percent right, like when I post random questions they get featured, but when I post about something important to me, don't get feature :/
@busmark_w_nika @olenabomko @umar_saleem @hamza_afzal_butt Ditto, there's always something inexplicable in the conversations I get to see every day
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+1 about clarifying the condition to be featured on the homepage.
Let the rank randomization in the first hours of the day, filter relevant products.
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+1 Absolutely, I agree. There’s no clear criteria for featuring products on Product Hunt’s homepage, and it’s disappointing when our hard work doesn’t get the visibility we hoped for. Unfortunately, there isn’t an FAQ addressing this issue on PH.
- Bots
- Sometimes not all discussions appear in the group.
I just heard from a fellow hunter the reason why products are not featured is the quality of the tagline, videos and images uploaded. No idea if it's true 😂
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@morgane_glt It's true. But sometimes, they don't feature products even with a good tagline, videos, and images.
Products that aren't featured at launch are essentially invisible. It's a manual select as far as I understand. Not ideal if your the person making that decision doesn't understand your product.
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Being able to message the Active member on Product hunt.
@olenabomko I was thinking about starting a similar discussion from the last few days considering bugs on Product Hunt 😀
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I would love to see a feature that highlights the most discussed products of the week. It would be great to keep up with what everyone’s talking about!
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If I could message product hunters directly.
I’d like to see more in-depth profiles for makers. It would be nice to learn more about the people behind the products I’m interested in.
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- possibility to connect with people (aka messaging)
Notifications can be made better.
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I would like to add a feature for videos.
1. Be able to post photos
2. No bots
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I think that will be mainly bots - it's just not fair for the majority
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If I could improve one thing about Product Hunt, it would be to add a "Bot Bouncer" at the entrance. Picture a virtual bouncer with sunglasses, asking each bot for ID before letting them in.
And for featuring products, maybe we need a mystical "Homepage Oracle" to handpick products with a crystal ball, ensuring the tagline mojo is just right.
Plus, can we get a "PH Matchmaker" app for messaging other hunters? Swipe left if you want to network, swipe right if you want to launch together!