Product Hunt

Maker

For those of you asking why we keep talking about pancakes on Twitter, now you know. 😄🥞 Today we're opening a beta for YourStack, a new place to share the products you use and love. We're building a home to answer those common questions: "What's on your homescreen?" I just added byte. "Which smart home security system do you have?" I use the camera-less Minut system. "What tools do you use to manage a distributed team?" Humble Dot has been a useful addition for us. "What's your favorite book on psychology?" I really enjoyed The Courage to be Disliked. In many ways, YourStack isn't a new idea. We've been thinking about this problem space for years. We tried once and failed. Ask Product Hunt was our first attempt and in hindsight it's clear why it didn't work (I'll write a postmortem about it sometime). With those learnings and the last 6 years building Product Hunt, we're creating an entirely new site and brand. It has the same kittenish feel as Product Hunt but much more people-centric. As with any social product, there's a lot of nuance and iterations required to get it right. But we'd love for your early feedback. Create a profile and feel free to send us your questions/ideas here, on Twitter, or email me directly at ryan@producthunt.com. 😄

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5yr ago

Ryzal Yusoff 🇬🇧🇲🇾

Reader Mode

@producthunt @rrhoover Congrats in the launch Ryan! 🎉🎉 Can't wait for my turn to try it out! :D

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5yr ago

Fajar Siddiq

F*ckOff

@producthunt @rrhoover Congggggraatttsss guys!!! Well done! 👍

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5yr ago

Juan Sarmiento

ByPeople

@producthunt Congrats on the launch @rrhoover 🎉 I can already see some good makers sharing their stacks and even their usage stories. Nice place, waiting to get in! 😄

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5yr ago

Justin Mares

Give Local

@producthunt @rrhoover I love the use of the word "kittenish". Going to figure out how to work this into my daily vocabulary.

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5yr ago

Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt

Maker

@jwmares it's a good word :)

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5yr ago

Chuck Grimmett

Crash

The waitlist is completely overplayed. It was cool with Mailbox, now it isn't. I went on the site to try to use it *right now* - don't make me wait with a tired growth tactic.

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5yr ago

Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt

Maker

@chuck_grimmett sorry for the wait, Chuck. For YourStack, the waitlist is critically important to ensure we can create a good experience. For example, within the first few hours of launch, 700 new products were added to the database but we currently lack scaleable manual and automated moderation tooling to fix duplicates, update imagery, ensure each product is properly categorized, etc. If we opened YourStack to everyone on day 1, it would be a disaster. We're working really hard to catch up and onboard more people. If I was confident we could handle the traffic today, I'd remove the waitlist.

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5yr ago

Micha

@chuck_grimmett @rrhoover that's understandable, but then then why 'launch' now at all? I signed up months ago to see hundreds of people on the list before me. Now you're announcing the beta launch to great fanfare on the PH newsletter, and I login only to see there is still the same amount of people before me on the waitlist? 😄

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5yr ago

James JOHNSON

@chuck_grimmett @rrhoover Makes complete sense!

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5yr ago

Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt

Maker

@96kbit unlike a utility or SaaS business, social products need a critical mass of users before they can be useful for anyone. In our case, it's also important that we build a product database informed by the early community. We chose to launch the beta publicly so we can quickly start learning + iterating with some level of scale. We wouldn't be able to do so nearly as effectively (or as quickly) with just a few hundred people.

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5yr ago

Hayden Evans

Wasn’t this the point of Product Hunt in the first place? This seems like Product Hunt within Product Hunt 🤔

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5yr ago

YourStack

A fun place to share and discover your favorite products

Do you use YourStack?

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