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Ryan Hoover

What should we build at Product Hunt?

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Next week most of the Product Hunt team is flying into San Francisco from around the world to plan our roadmap for the second half of 2019. We'd love to hear your ideas. What should we build? These could be completely new products or improvements to existing features. Feel free to get creative. There are no bad ideas. 😉
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Sarun W.
@rrhoover More API endpoints
Ryan Hoover
@sarunw which type of functionality would you want, Sarun?
Sarun W.
@rrhoover My interest is on maker space right now as I building app for that, so Goal: addComment to Goal deleteMutation Filter Goal by isFocus, so we can see others focusing right now update isFocus on Goal Space: join/leave space
Merrill Reisemberg
@rrhoover ⭐️ I think we need a space where makers can find their cofounder(s)! >> For example let's say I have that app idea but I don't know how to code, I'm a marketing and promotion guy, I would love to have a space where to post my idea and see if anyone is interested in joining me to Make it PH is one of the greatest and biggest community of technical and non-technical people in the world, I think that would be a great and useful improvement to have such a space on the site! In my opinion, the actual Makers Chat (and co) is not enough for something like that we would need to have a board somewhere where people can post ideas or projects, browse thru past and new ones and get in touch if they want to 😇
Ryan Hoover
@merrillhefdy appreciate that idea. I'm super curious to know how you might design something like this. I.e. If you were looking for a cofounder, what information would you want to know and how would you want to connect with them?
Merrill Reisemberg
@rrhoover Have a look at findamaker.io it's actually where I met my cofounder and I discovered this site months ago on PH :) You can see a board with a listing with partnership offers. People put there their ideas and what they are looking for (Tech guy or Marketing guy or X guy) for X equity or other options. Quite basic but efficient. It's like job offers but for partnerships between people with ideas and different skills. My guess is, emulate something like FindAMaker would do the job. Many websites are trying to do that but PH has most likely already the biggest database for a space like that. And a lot of people are actually asking for it :-) At some point I was trying to find an iOS dev cofounder and it took me months before we finally found each by pure chance on a small website. I am 100% confident if PH were doing the same thing it would have been way faster. I actually thought about this idea after seeing so many people on the Makers Chat saying they are looking for cofounders! But the way the Chat is designed at the moment doesn't easily let people connect with each other because it's almost impossible to look or find any old messages. By the way, @rrhover thank you to you and your team for PH, I've been a user for 4 or 5 years and I'm still here every single day, this is the only community where I'm involved and it's not gonna change :) Hope to help at some point, especially for the French Makers community!
Josh Arnold
@rrhoover many ways to implement this depending on roadmap, but some way of identifying/filtering out products that are no longer active when using search functionality. There’s an accumulation of dead links for past products, and I can only imagine this will become more of a problem as more time goes on. Could be user-sourced tagging as inactive which could be semi-automated via some monitoring of 404 links / defunct webpages.
Vineet Sinha
@rrhoover a webseries where you talk about products, discuss new products, or turn your podcast (which I like) into something more visual (also, if you ever actually want to build this, I'm down to be a part of it)
Natalia Diacono
@rrhoover If we could have our products listed as 'station f' products and also profiles also with this tag, we are into something nice :)
Ramy
@rrhoover I’m part of a mastermind and it’s been great - more ways to connect with small groups of 4-6 people with similar goals would be really awesome for makers IMO. Hard to pull off, but with tighter groups and strong accountability it could be really helpful
Ryan Hoover
@ramykhuffash I have a few friends that do this too. Do you meet in person? Any ideas on how this might work online among people that aren't physically nearby?
Ramy
@rrhoover We actually meet online on a video call (and have a Slack group for chatting generally). I think what would be helpful in this space would be a facilitator. Interested people sign up with times that would work for them, and the facilitator would make groups of 4-6 based on goals, current progress towards goals, time zones etc. Essentially a match making service of sorts It also counters the trend of joining huge Slack groups to find accountability and meet people with similar interests - they are impossible to keep up with
Hoda Mehr
@rrhoover good luck in your roadmap planning. Two things that I would use: 1) Launching podcast and product release updates 2) More analytics or even the possibility of interacting with the people who visited / signed up our product through PH
Ryan Hoover
@hodamehr1 thanks for the recs! How would you prefer to communicate with people that visited/signed up through PH?
Hoda Mehr
@rrhoover I've been thinking about your question here. The best way for us to communicate with people that visited and signed up through PH is a way of re-engagement through PH. For example, if we can send them product release update. Because once you have your product on PH, releasing new updates and notifying people who have upvoted are not easily possible. So, if there was a way to send notification to people who upvoted the product on PH that would be great. Also, if there was a way to know them better. Who are they? How old? What type of interests? What other products they've upvoted on PH... Doesn't have to be an individual level, it can be aggregated info. Currently, it's very hard to qualify PH's traffic. Almost, as if we can create a little community around our product, using the people who are upvoting and signing up via PH. Hope this makes sense. Happy to explore this with you further with you.
Wouter Raateland
@rrhoover I'd love to see maker projects extended with a development blog function. Currently both ship pages and maker projects only show goals. This gives a good view of what is currently going on in this projects. However, I think that adding a development blog to each project, will give interested persons a great overview of the history of a project and it will give both makers and interested persons a good opportunity to ask project specific questions and to connect with each other. I'd envision it something like this: https://forums.tigsource.com?boa..., but then not specific to games :)
Neil Mukti
@rrhoover I use search feature the most. Would like it to surface insightful comments/reviews aside from collections and stuff.
Neil Mukti
@rrhoover Product Pins: Would like to have the ability to 'pin' a particular product/comment and make my own collections/boards along with an option to add notes that I may want to refer later on.
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