I think that everybody is being a bit hostile to this product! And I also think that product hunt is not a place of hatred,of course I am with you guys that it feels a bit weird and I am not getting why someone would pay to just add a startup on there site when you can give product hunt a go and if you get fetured you will get much more bigger exposure! My personal opinion is that they managed to get some users to pay and now there are trying to figure out what the real value of their product is, i feel that's also the case with some other projects also! So that's why they don't have a clear answer to give! The best thing to do is to try to help them! ✌
Seems very similar to ProductHunt itself. And from what @bentossell gathered, the value prop is the same as well: submit to the site for exposure/traffic? Or am I missing something
I agree. There needs to be a clear value proposition to the end user. Also, there are no Terms of Services, which detail the use of the startup's information, i.e. email, names, URLs.
When I clicked the Privacy and Policy page, I'm taken to a vague resources link. Explain.
@rossblankenship Hi Ross, thanks for pointing that out. We have fixed the wrong link.
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I guess it would be very helpful for any startup considering paying 30 bucks for being featured on your site to get a glance at your media data (like a simple ga screenshot). I'd also suggest to make the search function more advanced (selecting categories, regions,...) to provide more value to the startups that are not paying.
And I think you need to get your claims more "mature".
This makes me mad, My startup Netlodge was making the same app and everything, had the same descriptions and pictures.. they used a online app maker for this because a while ago i was playing around with it and it let you make screenshots just like these, add an RSS feed and directories. Just trying to hate it just makes me mad...
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