Product Hunt 4.0 - Now with Reviews, Badges, Web Links, and more ✨

I just went back to time travel to see how PH evolve. And it's fantastic! The lean version, making it stable, giving what user can digest, adding new features and growing upon it. Hats off @rrhoover - I remember all the mistakes which is taking me almost more than 2 years to launch Passionboard (i tried to feed everything to users :( )

Nice. Already updated a couple FullStory listings with more on deck!

I love Product Hunt

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Everything

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Nothing

The PH team is an awesome bunch, and they've built an incredible product.

❤️

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Quick access to everything about a product (reviews, product info, jobs, news) in one place!!

Cons:

Like others, I'll echo the sentiment that product pages do feel a tad bit overwhelming.

Gonna spend so much time on PH, my boss will be glad 😉😉😉

This publication stays relevant after the 4th version of the site. Like, guys, wake up!

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Open reviews bring more objectivity into what excites us into a product. It is like a quick NPS though not a replacement of strategically planned NPS.

Discussions have always been healthy - direct and friendly.

Jobs are a welcome add, plus the contextually related product.

I am not sure what else a startup needs to share/announce when they launch (Lets not drag the teams, metrics, pitch decks, and rounds so fast. AL handles that pretty well as of now).

PS: I had shared my detailed thoughts in *early access* message. :)

Pros:

ProductHunt is turning out to be a liittle wikipedia for startups - Objective reviews, jobs, web links, related products, open discussions.

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Too addictive, often a healthy morning tussle between my coffee, Medium, and ProductHunt. And my son!

As products get more sophisticated and complex, it can be great for EXISTING users and those familiar with the journey, but really hard for NOOBS. Think of how simple Facebook might have been when you first joined, but how complex it can be for an older person signing-up today.

The journey is an important component to contextual UX, and one of the hardest things to do is to replicate first-time experience.

Scott Belsky has a good post about this: https://chmln.co/2evqWJn and so does Julie Zhou: http://bit.ly/1VD1rDJ

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Great additional context for assessing tools

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Harder for new users to navigate

Not as useful as it once was. While it used to offer a large array of interesting and unique products, it has degraded since "the good old days" (only a year or two ago). Product Hunt used to truly only display a select few products, all of which are high quality, interesting and useful. Nowadays it is like reddit: not bad to burn some free time, but the golden nuggets are few and far between. Everyday I visit there is a trump meme website, a handful of shameful sites, launch pages for products that may never exist, and side project websites designed to exploit the PH community for a quick 2 week money grab. What used to be high quality curated content, is now a cluster F*%& of random websites. I still visit once a week to see the most upvoted content and see the few products per week worth my time, but unfortunately PH has lost its status of being a daily routine website I check every morning.

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Occasional useful or interesting products

Worth a visit once a week or two

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What used to be a quality curated list of products is now a garbage pile I have to sort myself

Half the listings are self promotional

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