Hey there Product Hunt!
We’ve built Index to easily keep track of tech. There is so much going on nowadays that it is undoable to keep tabs on the companies, markets and locations you’re interested in. Index provides you with a personalized stream of all relevant content and data from the companies, markets and locations you care about. Over the past 4 months it has been in private beta and was know as TNW Index, now it is a free to use stand alone product with its own team, and its own brand / domain. I hope you enjoy using it and feedback / ideas are welcome.
@patrick Super cool Patrick. Two questions/bugs:
1) I have added Praber (https://index.co/company/praber_) to the list of the companies and on it's page it shows that 1486 people are following it. How is that numbr calculated?
2) I can't seem to fetch the profile image from LinkedIn. I tried to press the butto multiple times.
@nicolasegosum when people follow a market or a location, it means they are subscribed to the news of every company tagged as such, so the total of followers is the sum of the people directly following a company + people following their markets and locations.
Really cool concept and I can't wait to watch it evolve.
The tagging seems really erratic. Under investors, for instance, nearly every VC has a randomly different tag under their name whereas many should have the same tag.
Unlike some others here, I really like the idea to utilize LinkedIn log in for your social/professional credibility. Stick to your guns on that one :) LI has a behavioral effect that no other log in system can match.
@nickatloot we have quite an effort to make on the tagging indeed. We discussed to leave it out in this version but as we want to see how people react and use it we ended up leaving them in.
For the companies who get a lot of coverage we can get a long way by analyzing the content and extract tags from it, for lesser known startups it's harder and important that they do their own tagging. Anyway, it's on the agenda and it will be improved.
With regards to LinkedIn, your wording is way better than mine :)
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