p/general has a lot of recurring topics. Would dedicated forums help?
I scrolled through a few pages of p/general sorted by new this week, and most posts seem to fall into a handful of recurring topics:
marketing and growth,
pricing and churn,
building in public,
solo-founder workflow.
Sometimes the same question comes up two or three times within an hour, just phrased a little differently.
The current forums are General, Vibecoding, AMA, Introduce Yourself and Self-Promotion, so discussions about marketing or running the business naturally end up in General. That may be part of why the feed feels so repetitive.
p/Vibecoding already shows how much easier a focused feed is to browse. The clearest gap seems to be Marketing & Growth, since that was the biggest cluster I noticed. A Founders / Building forum could do the same for build-in-public and solo-founder posts.
Would the team @producthunt consider adding a Marketing & Growth forum, and perhaps a Founders / Building one, given how much of both already ends up in General?
And a question to other makers and hunters: what topics would you like to see?
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One I left out of the post: a Launch forum, because "how should I launch here" comes up constantly and is the one topic this site is best placed to host. A Pricing forum would also be good addition on its own - pricing and churn is one of the bigger clusters and it is specific enough to get lost in a general Marketing feed.