How has the product hunt community helped you and what help would you still expect?
After more than three years of observing this platform (mainly in the forums), I can see which posts have helped you the most. [Yes, I can tell based on their performance.] In addition to updated news from the tech industry, you liked the most:
– website roasting and
– tagline adjustments/improvements for launch day (mostly from @aaronoleary )
– or job postings from @fmerian .
I am pretty sure that we can help each other beyond that, and maybe include new topics that could improve your presence and launches here.
What would you find helpful in Product Hunt forums?
Which recurring topics would you like to see here?
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vibecoder.date
It's been extremely helpful in learning how to position a product. it has to be concrete and understandable immediately.
People hate on the It's product X but for Y formula but it works for a reason, because our reasoning is associative and synthesizing from two or more concepts is a good way to learn something new.
If I told you I was building Notion for Churches and Pastors you would get it instantly.
Onto the questions.
I'd find it helpful if people talked casually about their problems as consumers, not in a problemhunt way or form, but as one person to another. I'll give a personal example. There is no good way to safely eject a device on windows if there is a hung process making it busy, and there is no program that shows you what that process is and lets you end it. So you're stuck either risking it and unplugging, or shutting down the computer. As a consumer, this is something I would pay for tbh.
As for recurring topics?
I want to see people talk about how they use their devices more. There is a trend on YouTube of dumbing down the smartphone or decentralizing its functions. I'm not asking for this trend per se but for people to share experiences around how they are choosing to use products and tech.
I'll share a little example. I read a ton of ebooks on my phone, my app of chocie is read era, great app, gonna buy the premium version just to support. However, I wish it had brightness overrides because my eyes strain a lot. Maybe I should consider an ereader or a tablet. But I like my phone form factor and it lets me read plenty, if I am reading on a laptop my eyes start hurting.