Should be there a limit on the PH for featured products?
Business Marketing with Nika
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Each day, many products are launched on Product Hunt. Most of them won't make it to the "featured" category, and with the platform's popularity, it can be difficult to "scan" through all of them.
Would you limit the number of products launched each day?
How many?
Feel free to share your approach. 🙂👇
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Vaibhav@vaibhavdwivedi
I think this is a good idea but much needed one too. Anyways, it is getting difficult to get featured on PH.
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There are days with super strong competition and a lot of cool products and days when I got less excited about the featured list.
If there would be a cap for # of submits I am afraid there would be some ways to manipulate winning. LIke ask some friends to schedule the same day as you, then cancel, and voila — better chances to get noticed.
Plus it would be fully on PH team to select who is worthy and it will get even more into curated lists thingy
I think, yes, but I'm not sure how these limits should be managed. What are your options on this?
@busmark_w_nika one about upvotes is especially good, I think
It would make them more like a currency which shows real priorities and preferences
AI Product Hunter
Let me share my understanding of why PH features only 20%
- As the premise, PH users want to easily find products that they are happy to know about. As a measure to increase the probability of this happening, it is reasonable to display only products that the PH team (or "PH algorithm") thinks are good.
- If there is too many upvoting target, the ranking will not function as the "popularity ranking" (the influence of voting block become too large)
A daily limit could definitely help with browsing. Maybe around 10 featured products would keep things neat and easy to scan.
BodySherpa
yeah you might be on to something. gotta think limiting the number would benefit both sides. the tradeoff then is you'd probably have to implement some sort of queueing system to schedule products.
BodySherpa
@busmark_w_nika honestly i think this is the model Uneed is going with. Not sure what the daily launch limit is, but you can list for free and wait or pay a fee to skip the line.
I think it works because that site is newer so the line isn't that long (maybe 4-6 weeks). With the volume and popularity of Product Hunt I think the risk is the line would be so far into the future it wouldn't be relevant anymore... tough problem.
I think the limit should be 20 and you would have to submit the product a month before the actual launch.
@luka_brzin I feel that submitting 30d could add more stress to the founders' lives.
We had tiny changes on website and materials week before launch. More over it will likely mean that you will go crazy on marketing your launch 30d earlier and it could be draining.
There are some perks of short time scale.
Setting a cap on the number of featured products could be helpful. I’d go with 12 per day to keep things balanced.
Just a few days ago I launched my product and it was not Featured, this stopped my product from getting equal visibility based on their ambiguous rules. As, it is an open and free market so every product should get equal visibility and then community can choose which one is good and which one is not.
They can introduce such a system if they want where they can limit how many products should launch in a day but only if they Feature all of them.
True. I think so too.
I believe every product must be given the equal visibility and chance to shine through. An appropriate limit for PH for launching product should be somewhere between 30-40.
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No, why so?
Yes.. we would actually be able to review instead of being overhemled with new products
Completely agree. That or share how many launches are already planned for the day so people can be more strategic in their approach. Right now it’s a bit of a gamble.