Ryan Hoover

Ask Product Hunt - A community-powered product search engine

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Ryan Hoover
Today, we’re introducing Ask Product Hunt, a new community-powered product search engine. As with many things we build, the idea was inspired by you. 🤗 Every day, people ask for product recommendations, often cc'ing @ProductHunt on Twitter. Now you can ask the community directly. For the past 4 weeks, we've been sharing recommendations with a small group of beta testers in response to questions like: 📱 What's one app you use a lot, that most people don't know about? by @davidspinks ✏️ What's the best app for writing on MacOS? by @venikunche ✈️ What's the easiest way to create GIFs for the web? by @veronica Would love your feedback and crazy ideas (special thanks to all the beta testers that helped so far 🙏🏼).
Michael Sitver
@rrhoover @producthunt @davidspinks @venikunche @veronica I love the idea. I think this is a great way to leverage the collective knowledge of the PH community.
Filippo Gandellini
@rrhoover @producthunt Awesome. Would be nice to have a topic/categories list and a search bar that searches trough all the questions
Ryan Hoover
@filippo_gandellini agree! We're adding topics and search soon.
Krishna De
@rrhoover @producthunt What a great idea - it would be nice to have a link to where we have contributed to answers and also submitted answers as a quick to find tab/link on our profiles
Javier Ramos
@rrhoover Could this evolve to something more like 21.co for @ProductHunt?🤔 Would be great to see a bitcoin reward next to the up-voting system🚀. Just saying😳
Ramy
This update makes a huge amount of sense for the types of recommendation it's hard to search for. Kinda like a product specific Jelly/Quora. I imagine it will also turn into a super-useful resource for makers who are looking for ideas of what to build next 😉
Ian Rumac
Wooo! 🙌 Now that it's public I feel like I'll waste too much time on it 🤔
Mike Coutermarsh
Ryan Hoover
@ianissoawesome "waste"!? I like to think of it as productive procrastination.
Ian Rumac
@rrhoover "procrastination"!? I like to think of it as research
Dre Durr💡
@katesegrin I'm coming for your top spot this week Very happy that I can finally tell people. It's tough when @rrhoover swears you to secrecy🤐 The DOPEst on the planet 🚬🚬🚬🚬
Kate
@dredurr hahaha try all you want, I'm the queen of AskPH 😉👑
Kunal Bhatia
@dredurr you'll have to pass through me before you get to @katesegrin! Couldn't be more proud of #6! 😹
Dre Durr💡
@kunalslab I'm coming after you as well. I was in the lead 2 weeks ago, then you guys blew me out the water. @katesgrin has an unfair advantage. She gets to look at the database.😡
Pierre-Marie Galite
It looks like 'Ask Jelly', but just for ProductHunt; Great new feature!
Naomi Assaraf 🔥
@tsunaze EXACTLY what I initially thought too! And now that @jelly has been bought by @pinterest, there's a vacancy in this kind of platform. @rrhoover's team should reach out to Jelly's influencers (and key employees like @ehooves) and swoop in on that. Maybe even buy a list from @biz if it's not too late. I'm also really excited to see how @producthunt defines itself as a standalone #socialplatform, independent of @twitter... because after @realdonaldtrump leaves office, Twitter will start tanking again (Sorry, Twittter- I still ♥️ you). Overall, this is a really exciting time for PH to rebirth its fine social self! 😻 #tech #startups #socialmedia #ONS2017 #mondaymotivation
Wesley James
Is there a way to search through all the questions?
Tarun Gangwani
@goforwes I'd really like this!
Mike Coutermarsh
@tarungangwani @goforwes not yet, coming soon!
Wesley James
@mscccc Cool. Thanks Mike!
Will Brennan
Dear Product Hunt... Should my app have Stories in it? Thanks in advance, Will
Mike Coutermarsh
@wfb lol
Timothy Black
Jeff Eisley
It's about time someone tested the Quorian waters lol
Kevin Guebert
Great idea! Nicely done ProductHunt team! It's like it's taking some of the collections people have made, some of the top upvoted products, and some of the secret apps and tools out there and putting it into a recommendation engine. Looking forward to using it!
Kunal Bhatia
Finally! When Ryan first mentioned Ask Product Hunt, all I could think about is RIP Ask Kunal. Now my friends know my secret. I know about all these cool products because of PH, and they too can ask the community for recommendations! 😻
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