Follow Hunt
p/follow-hunt
Product Hunt for people. Best people to follow, every day
Eric Willis
Follow Hunt β€” Product Hunt for people. Best people to follow, every day
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Justin Jackson
This reminds me of @kevinrose's early Twitter project: http://wefollow.com
Di.Serkin
@mijustin sort of. But we wanna be like product hunt :) and product hunt is not just static collections of products. It is a community.
Marko
This is really cool and handy! I'll add a couple of my favorites. πŸ˜„
Vinish Garg
Awesome. I am IN. Just made two submissions too.
Kate Serkina
@vingar welcome 😁
Vinish Garg
@kateserkina Two quick questions: - Do you plan to help 'search' a person; else the list is growing too long to find a person I want to follow? - Do you plan to club/group people via skills or titles (or tags?) for findability?
Kate Serkina
@vingar yes, yes and yes. we plan all of these and even more ;) 'search and categorization' is core of our product and we will do it someday. today we just published our mvp to see PH community reaction. and one more important thing is we want to build community which is similar to PH community. We need our own moderators and we want to make our site dynamic and growing.
Jason Crawford
Cool. At first I was confused why I couldn't upvote, then I found the upvote button. I suggest making it more obvious. :-)
Kate Serkina
@jasoncrawford sorry:) yes, we ve got some similar feedbacks.. We ll fix it soon!!! Thank you!!
Erik Torenberg
about time someone made this! @micah
Kate Serkina
@eriktorenberg i would say we are in progress ;) so many plans.
Ross Rojek
I'd also suggest you have clear guidelines. Is this people to follow or companies? The front page is all people except for Wonderful Places. Will it only be real people or will it also be personas (@BoredElonMusk or @StartupLJackson)?
Di.Serkin
@sacbookreviewer personas and people should be fine. companies - not sure, may be as a part of our future monetization model. we may need to change 'people' to 'social network profiles or accounts', but it does not sound good, right? :)
Kate Serkina
@sacbookreviewer Thank you for your feedback and advice, we ll make some changes. Yes, Follow Hunt is for accounts and it will look more clear once we ll start categorized the accounts we have by themes and topics. So our dear users could find easily accounts they looking for according to their requests and interests. Also, having most of social media networks we d ll to create a trustful transparent upvote system.
Tori Bunte
Have you noticed that there is only one woman on the list? That's not the "best people to follow" IMO. Most people in tech already know and follow 90% of this list. Perpetuating the notion that the "best" people to follow are all visible men (in tech and around it) is dangerous.
Kate Serkina
@stttories don't worry, as a female founder i promise you ill take care of it :) this is a just first day. please go ahead and submit your favorite female accounts.
Kate Serkina
@stttories don't worry, as a female founder i promise you ill take care of it :) this is a just first day. please go ahead and submit your favorite female accounts.
Tori Bunte
@kateserkina @stttories As a woman working in a technical space, we have to consciously try to build inclusive spaces because no one else is going to do it for us. I'd definitely recommend prepopulating it with women before tomorrow. But I'll add some ladies and POC later.
Drew Meyers
I don't mean to be a naysayer, but do you think the average person is actually seeking to find new people to follow on a daily basis? There's already too much noise, I'm more interested in weeding my list down. It would be helpful to "hide" everyone that I'm already following upon login...no reason to show me people I already know.
Di.Serkin
@drewmeyers thanks for your comment. Personally I believe that people need it and feedback we got even here prove it more than less. Second thing daily updates is only part of the web site. We need it to be dynamic. Another part is powerful search and collections will add more value. Good suggestion about hiding people you already following! Thanks, we will consider.
Kate Serkina
@drewmeyers We appreciate your feedback, Drew! Yes, we understand that nowadays people can be lost in their accounts and everyday news feeds (sometimes useless). And actually our aim is to help these people find accounts they need and like. You ll be able to (1) build your own collections (open and closed) from different social utilities in one place and (2) upgrade your collections with new interesting accounts that you can choose by filters, other users' collections or daily published accounts. It will be an alive community where real people can submit and upvote their fav accounts. Simple and transparent. (3) we are trying to build the easiest search-system and interface to save our users' time.
Carol Skelly
This is cool. Kind of like a daily top 20 of my "Who Hunt" (http://www.producthunt.com/posts...). What kind of sorting/ranking algorithm is used?
Kate Serkina
@carolskelly thank you :) who hunt is really well made. people are sorted by the number of upvotes, time since submission, and other factors.
PJ Camillieri
Looks great! Side question: did you guys use Telescope to build it or your own stack? cc @SachaGreif
Di.Serkin
@cam_pj no, we did not. We started several week earlier before telescope v2 arrived. Moreover I think our approach is more complicated and requires a lot of social network api programming plus advance site administration.
Di.Serkin
Thanks @erictwillis! This is our third project on PH and I proud of our small team. Please let us know what you think about idea and our MVP. It is still an early beta: may contains some issues and functionality is very limited. We plan to add profiles, ability to follow users, activity, collections and so on. Sounds familiar? :) Well, yes. It is a Product Hunt for people. @rrhoover, thanks for your support and answering my questions.
sh0 (Eyal Toledano)
Neat product! I'd definitely see myself using this on the daily. Well done!
foo
Very cool, I can see myself using this daily. The idea of commenting about people feels a bit weird, though :)
Kate Serkina
@oelmekki ha :) yes and no. to be honest we are considering it as a place to take AMA with published people. who knows may be some of them will like idea to speak fans ;) food for thought.
Marko
@kateserkina @oelmekki I agree with Oliver that commenting about people is weird. But I can see how AMA approach could be really interesting!
foo
@xzarexhc Indeed, that would be awesome, actually. @kateserkina you should get in touch with featured people on twitter, like product hunt is doing with makers ;)
Kate Serkina
@oelmekki ouch, it is hard but we will definitely try! πŸ˜‡
Rahul Singh
love it.. amazingly crafted
Kate Serkina
@imrsdotco thank you, Rahul :x
Aaron McKeehan
Awesome! It always helps to have tools like this!
Kate Serkina
@aaronmckeehan thank you for being so nice :)
Kate Serkina
thank you very much for your feedbacks and kind words!
Kate Serkina
Eric, thank you for featuring us :) Hi all! We are Follow Hunt and we a place where you can find the best people to follow on social media about your interests. Here all of us are trying to collect and categorize the most worthy people to follow. Yep, it looks like our lovely Product Hunt :)
LJ Jones
Will "people to follow" be featured for a single day just like on Product Hunt? How will it work long term to help me find people to follow?
Kate Serkina
@ljjon long term plan is to support search and collections functionality. so we plan to make it easy to search featured people.
Elizabeth M.
Great job!! It seems like there was a need for this product! A suggestion from someone who analyzes words for a living (attorney), you may want to reconsider the adjectives "worthy" and "best." In this context, these adjectives are describing individuals not products; thus those adjectives might not be appropriate. For example, by same logic, individuals that are not chosen to be posted are by definition "not worthy." Eek. Over time, this may cause build up of negative energy from your membership. Conversely, it appears "best" has a different connotation in tech, so that verb might be okay. I'm not sure?? Thank you for your consideration. Thank you for the the product.
Kate Serkina
@leasemolina great! thank you for your consideration and advice. we will think about it.
sri
What is the criteria to be considered "most worthy"?
Kate Serkina
@sridhar_kondoji mostly people who are active, professional, inspirational, and interesting to follow. Any occupation or interest within legal borders :) We want to build community to decide. btw, see our faq: http://followhunt.com/faq/