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Idea Hunt — Solve specific challenges for your favorite products
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Kelly Kuhn-Wallace
[Commenting per request of nice people] Idea Hunt provides a platform for a structured "collection" of ideas. This is ideal for gathering specific feedback on narrowly-defined questions. IH has an opportunity to go bigger and become a platform for innovation not just ideas. They'll need to make sure no Idea Hunts are just market research studies where hunters are the subjects -- safety/privacy is huge. Then, make sustained participation in the platform (not just an individual hunt) worth the time and signups viral. Finally, train participating companies on how to use the platform as a way to have dialogue, to solve problems, to innovate and not merely ideate. Is this all possible? Sure, one step at a time.
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Looks very similar to what @mindsumo is doing with college students and big brands. www.mindsumo.com/challenges or Eyeka out of Europe. Very cool but definitely difficult to build up a reliable community. Good luck!
@joisig Thanks Jói! We hope that many startups and products will prosper by it
Could potentially be a way to test and validate ideas...or even come up with ideas to further validate through other means
@anandp29 Yes, that's a great summary! We see Idea Hunt as a platform that needs to exist to make it easier to test and validate your ideas, co-create new ones, as well as engage and build your community in the process.
@khoshgozaran Awesome and Sorry to hear that, hope we can make it up to you :)
@johnrwhaley Creating an Idea Hunt and sharing it in your network is free. And super simple to setup by simply registering and hitting "create campaign". If you want to be featured and promoted you should fill in this form: https://ideahunt.typeform.com/to...
Great idea! I just signed up and added my photo to my profile, however, it added my country's flag over my face, and looks like I'm blowing my nose/wiping my mouth with the flag. Perhaps you might consider moving the flag icons to a different portion of the profile, or to make it look cleaner, perhaps just show the country as text right below our names?
@imandreaglass Thank you Andrea, I will forward your feedback right away to our designer and we'll see what we can do
I am blessed with the ability to generate ideas. This app is a great tool that I am looking forward to using.
@m4murice that's excellent Murice! We look forward to seeing what you come up with
Just a tiny PSA: this stock photo of a lady holding sparkler has been featured as the main image on at least 4 different products I've seen on PH. It's lovely, but maybe it's time to retire it.
I really like the design and the copy, you've managed to explain the entire product in 3 simple steps. I can see myself using this for future projects. Good job!
@sydney_liu_sl Thank you Sydney, we are happy to be live after months of preparation
I've been thinking about the feedback process between product designers and users a lot lately, and I' gotta say I'm lovin' this. Good work, @tribaling
My one complaint is the sign up form. I'm totally one of those people that groans when they see more than 3 or 4 text fields in a form (I know, I know. I'm lazy).
Really hope this gets a lot of attention from campaigners; could be very valuable. How are you planning to market to them? Aside from product hunt of course...
@dancyfits That's really good feedback on the login form, and I also think we need social login for people that prefer them.
So far we have personally reached out to campaigners, and we will keep doing that. We of course hope that this will spread word-of-mouth, and stay "top of mind" when people think about tools for gathering feedback, as well as engaging and growing their community.
Please let us know if you have any other ideas for us on the marketing front?
@tribaling You should get @rrhoover in on this! I bet a lot of people here have a lot of good ideas for PH. Is there any incentive after a campaigner signs up to share on twitter, facebook, etc? That'll be key, I think; campaigners with large followings soliciting for feedback. And people really want to give feedback to, reward or not. I can't begin to tell you how often I wish there was a better way to suggest a feature to my favorite todo app, Evernote, etc. And a place where campaigners can ask for feedback that facilitates constructive conversation should be hugely valuable. Man, I'm rambling. The more I think about this, the more excited I am for it!
@dancyfits @rrhoover It would be awesome to feature a specific challenge for the PH community!
I believe that there are many benefits for makers that are preparing a Product Hunt launch, as well as something they can use to engage their new sign-ups afterwards.
@dancyfits Lots of great feedback to ponder there. I think the main incentive for a campaigner to share is to bring in their own network and community to their Idea Hunt. Happy to hear that you see a space for better tools for feedback. :)
@tribaling Glad to help! Definitely a lot of space/need for better feedback tools, and I think this is a great example of what's possible. I'll keep adding my feedback on the idea hunt campaign, but feel free to tweet me if you need anything specific!
@webbuzzau Thanks, we would love for someone to use Idea Hunt to achieve PMF through feedback loops. That would be so cool
Nice execution & UI is pretty simple. One question, do you have any criteria for campaigners to launch on Ideahunt to maintain quality of campaigns being hunted ?
@varunbagga8 Happy to hear that you like the UI Varun! Anyone can launch an Idea Hunt, but we are currently curating and featuring the best. This is one of the things we're learning by doing, and have not nailed yet. Any feedback on this is appreciated. Thanks
Great idea. The FAQs talk about 'premium subscription' but I cannot see any pricing options. Am I missing something?
@vingar Great question, we have a few clients running premium accounts, but so far they have only been issued by request. You can drop us an e-mail at team@ideahunt.io or fill out the "appy to be featured" form on the main page