Vote Button for Product Hunt - A Product Hunt vote button for your site (community-made)

This is awesome, @yvoschaap. 😀 We've debated whether to build something like this for a while and haven't primarily because we're unsure if people will really use it. Once we build systems for re-engaging upvoters and giving consumers more incentive to do so, I believe this will be compelling to both makers and consumers. For example, the reason why people add a tweet button to their site is to encourage people to share on Twitter (duh) and people click that button because it's a reminder to do so (an external trigger), it's easy to do (easier than copying a link, going to twitter.com, etc.), and they're rewarded with favorites/RT's/replies by sharing good content with their followers. That said, our #1 goal is to surface products most interesting and useful as determined by the community so we need to be careful makers don't abuse something like this. cc @oelmekki I'm REALLY curious to hear what everyone thinks about this (from both sides). Thoughts?

Are you sure this is a good idea? I am not sure how currently the algorithm works, but definitely voting from the main page is with bigger weight.

Based on the style of extisting share buttons (Facebook, Twitter and G+) I've created this Product Hunt vote and comment button. It loads fast and integrates easily. I think the main use case would be on a landing pages as a badge to show your support of Product Hunt, show of your upvote count, and allow visitors to provide feedback with a comment on PH. Or on the day of your product hunt launch, to lure people to vote! It doesnt vote inline, but pops up the product hunt product page.

Seems like this could trigger voting ring detection?

A little late to the convo here, but want to say thanks to @yvoschaap for this and drop my $0.02 Some people are asking if this is the right thing to do and worried about abuse. I don't think we need to worry about that (especially since you can't actually vote from the button just like you can't tweet from a tweet embed button). When we relaunched Ramen last week (http://www.producthunt.com/posts...) we were driving every set of eyeballs we could to our PH post page to get their feedback on what we're doing. We ended the day with around 237 votes and in the top 5. The following day we picked up another ~40 votes thanks to the daily email. Since then, however, we've gotten up over 300 (307 at time of writing). While some of these votes are certainly coming from the PH long tail, we also added a big orange bar to our homepage saying "Hey look we were featured on product hunt!" and I'm certain that some customers who are coming to us _not_ through PH are seeing that bar and thinking "oh cool I'll go vote too." Beyond the ability to get votes after the fact, the kind of social proof you get from a successful PH launch is huge. I don't know about you guys, but the first thing I do when I come across a new product is check the about page (specifically the team section) and look for other references to customers. Over the past few months, I've also increasingly taken the extra step of searching for them on PH :) I think Product Hunt has the ability not only to be a great vehicle for launching a product, but the social proof that comes along with a successful launch can continue to benefit a product long after launch. That's why we reached out to Yvo last week asking if we could use the widget from his top hunters page, ended up using EmbedHunt on our homepage for aesthetic reasons, and have already added Yvo's bug to the header of our blog (http://blog.ramen.is). Social proof is a big deal post-launch. That's where things like this button will thrive. Thanks so much for building it, Yvo.

I think this type of thing will be abused but should be used post-facto to surface new comments on old posts. i.e. this thing should only be added after their producthunt launch to keep a conversation going for a few days after the big splash.

I tried it on my site http://icondrop.affinityblue.com but it just shows a plus button as the number and when you click on it, it says " You are not authorized to access this page.". The product hunt link is here, but it doesn't appear to work: https://www.producthunt.com/tech...

At first I thought it will upvote the product upon clicking, but it didn't. Instead it showed up the product hunt product page. Is that the behaviour? Similar product - Embed Hunt - http://www.producthunt.com/posts...

This is cool. The design could be better, don't you think @graafdemichiel?

Great idea! I've added it to http://ShareBar.net along with Facebook Like, Google +1, Twitter etc. Check it out!