PH asks for feedback: What helps you the most when considering new products to try?

I think some soft categorisation / tags would be worth exploring. Ie ‘Indie Dev’ ‘Enterprise SW’… Let makers define themselves into categories and maybe if we want to get complex some simple click / voting by the community to add affirmation where needed. Might create another method for people to discover more related products too..

I would say that a trial version that as unrestrained as possible would help me. It's simply the worst when I signed up for a two week trial of something and then don't get the chance to try the product out within those two weeks. Even if they give me two more weeks it might not end up working for me. What are they so afraid of? People always wants to pay money for good products.

Hi Daniel 👋 Congrats on your new role. Excited to have you on the team. I have PH mobile scrolling incorporated into my morning routine. When I wake up, I scroll through the list of new apps. The one-liner is perhaps the most interesting thing that catches my eye. If it seems interesting, I'll click on the description, go to the website, and scroll through the comments. Hope this is helpful. -Susie

It would be helpful to see if people I follow have upvoted or commented on a product!

Hey Daniel, Welcome to the team 🥳 For me i would have to say that its actually the photo / video along with the text from the maker/hunter that speaks to me the most. I did PH is already doing great job of everything around it. Also while its tempting to make thinks better and better and I have not doubts that there is plenty to work in PH but I would like to just mention that I hope the simplicity of getting around PH should stay as is. The other have pointed out many other things thats worth your attention. I hope this helps as well 👍

I think PH is great as it is, with user community comments and reviews of the products. What would be a plus is, probably, if you have a PH team that reviews some products that might be useful for the community. Something like: - Top 5 / Top 10 upcoming products that PH think could be a hit. - Top 5 / Top 10 upcoming products that could be worth checking out. - Top 5 / Top 10 upcoming products for your family. - Top 5 / Top 10 upcoming products for your pets. - Top 5 / Top 10 upcoming products for your mobile device. These are off the beaten path of upcoming products and launches that doesn't know how to promote on PH, but PH thinks that they could be good. I know PH has thousands of upcoming products and launches, but picking a few here and there, could be beneficial for all :)

It would help if we had at least some crude categories for products so that we can follow a certain category we are interested in. Not sure this would be doable though... :)

Agree with others on the feedback feature! I'd also add something like a filter. Let's say I want to see what's new in the area I'm really interested in. Yeah, it's good to see all the newest products but after seeing those I really would like to filter out and take a more detailed look at them. Btw, we’re launching in late May. Check out our upcoming PH page: www.producthunt.com/upcoming/eff... Our project is called: Effecto. It’s an app for detailed habit, health, symptoms, and meds tracking. Pretty much for everything that is related to your physical or mental health and every daily factor that can affect you.

I favor open source projects, without particular allegiance in terms of licensing (for other people's work, that is. All my code I place in the public domain where possible). This is both for transparency and a proxy for potential for quick turnaround in bug fixes and improvements. It's hard to beat the ability to find a bug, open an issue, fork, fix, and open a pull request within a few hours. There are no perfect products, but that's less important than how amenable and able they are to fix issues. I'm not so naive to think that there aren't obvious shills to get around it but I prefer actual discoveries of obscure but useful products. A way to filter maker-submitted or user-submitted projects would be cool if at all possible. There are a lot of ambitious projects here, some are genuinely great, but some suffer from obvious feature creep. Anyone can talk up their grand plans but I'm far more interested in products that already exist and have simply been neglected. This I feel goes with the original ethos, insofar as there was one, of the site, and I like surprising discoveries more than pomp and fanfare. (And for that matter, when there's obvious shilling, let us report it. I've attempted to do so multiple times and nothing has been done. I'm pretty sure asking a telegram channel full of people to sign up just to vote a project up so they can pump up a coin's value is shilling and against both the rules and possibly the law. It's frustrating to see that sort of obvious behavior being legitimized and make the front page) I also believe that empty platitudes are easier to write than in depth critiques. Sometimes I'd try a product in spite of the critiques because it doesn't affect me or I feel that the critiques are either unfair or based out of expectations and not what the product actually promises. But other times it shows sketchy to straight up illegal behavior. They are arguably worth more than simple messages of encouragement which tells me nothing. Of course if someone I'm following or more importantly, someone I know irl and trust irl is recommending a product it gives it far more credence, but my friends aren't all in my line of business so while endorsements are important, critiques, and an actual response addressing the critiques, mean so much more. Lastly, I'm sure we've all had a few crazy years and much of it unpleasant, whether your personal health was affected or the health of someone you know, mental or physical. I'm fully cognizant that at best this is a lull but I would really appreciate projects that are, well, fun, or absurd, Dada, meta for the sake of meta, or some sort of description that reflects that a project might not be super useful (although it can be) but a project that is ridiculous in a self-aware manner, ludicrous on its face but actually has a purpose, too clever by half, or anything that actually makes me chuckle would be greatly appreciated. We all need a laugh at some point. Rube Goldberg solutions to simple problems might not be efficient, but look, you don't watch a comedy movie for the heartwarming ending, right? As long as it's clear that a product is like this by design and not some post-hoc justification for a poor product. That's definitely more than I meant to write so I'll just end it here. Cheers.

Feedback on whether the features are really useful