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Product Hubs & Launch Pages — A whole new way to learn about a product’s journey
Introducing Product Hubs and Launch Pages ✨
Product Hubs are a new place to learn everything there is to know about a product’s journey: launches, reviews, awards, news, Makers… And Launch Pages have been updated to better celebrate your next favorite thing!
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@benln Thanks Ben! So much more to come, especially for Notion which has such a strong backing in the PH community :)
Found a bug on our new Product Hub. If you search for Flow Club, it takes you to https://www.producthunt.com/prod... which has our logo but the name "Overflow." Seems like Flow Club got merged with another product called Overflow.
Otherwise, love the concept and I anticipate it'll encourage more and more launches
@rickyyean @product_at_producthunt I am having the same problem with Directus.io and Soicialhose.io, can I get an assist!!
@rickyyean @product_at_producthunt @jakecrump you're awesome, thank you!!!! And congrats on the launch, this is great.
@producthunt @roymorejon thank you! it's been a long time coming (it may seem simple but this touches EVERYTHING about the way the site works). excited to finally share it!
@ahiggz @product_at_producthunt
After a day of playing around on the new layout and reading the rationales, I understand the new approach now. Couple suggestions and questions:
1) With content now split into two types of screens -- hub pages and launch screens -- users need an easy way to navigate between the two. (And it needs to be *prominent*, not disguised as a link with an unknown destination.) For example, a link or button to "Product Hub" at the top of a product's launch screens.
2) The hub page template displays a link to "(X) launches", but when that link is clicked, the number of launches displayed in the pop-up does not = (X). Is this a bug? If not, how does one view the actual list of (X) launches?
3) Clicking on a promoted product opens that product's website in a new window/tab. How does one visit the hub and/or launch screens of a promoted product?
This update makes total sense. I have always found it confusing to follow the same product on different launches. Can't wait to see it in action.
@jsteneros For sure! We want to help makers to tell one continuous story about their products, and allow the community to easily follow it. We realized we had so much amazing history, we just had to make it more accessible.
Hey Product Hunt!
We are so excited to announce a big update to Product Hunt today (so meta). We think it’s a big step forward toward our vision for this platform and community.
First, a little context.
We've been talking with the community a LOT over the past year and a half. Interviews, surveys, polls, and data analysis all to answer one question: how can we make Product Hunt better for all of you.
A few things came up again and again:
1. You want a single source of truth to follow the full history of a product
2. When you're researching a tool, you need an easy way to see all the reviews and rating info for a product consolidated in one place
3. As a maker, you want an easy way to reactivate the audience that you've found on Product Hunt, not just for major feature releases, but for all along a product's lifecycle (eg. managing waitlists and betas, doing early product validation, and of course, announcing updates big and small).
We put our heads together and came up with something that we think is really going to help:
⚡️Product Hubs ⚡️
Product Hubs are your single source of truth, the place to find everything about a product’s journey, like:
🚀 All of a product’s historical launches
⭐ Reviews throughout the lifespan of the product
🏆 Awards and accolades throughout Product Hunt history
📰 Related news about the product
👥 The awesome makers who have worked on the product over time
👩🏻💻 Active job listings
💭 and lots more to come...
You can even "follow" a Hub to make sure you never miss an update to your favorite products. For makers, these updates give you the tools to kickstart your community and bring them along for the ride, from the first time you introduce a product, to each iteration thereafter. You can read more about how Product Hubs work in the changelog.
And because Product Hubs are now the place to roll up all of that canonical information, we have also been able to streamline our Launch Pages to focus on what's most important: the product, the discussion with the makers, and the key launch day performance stats. After launch day, this page will be saved to the product hub as part of its official history -- sort of like a time capsule.
We hope this new change will set the stage for even more ways for our community and makers to support and rally around their favorite products -- this is just the beginning. As you might imagine the change has required a ton of work behind the scenes since it touches virtually every part of the product, so please let us know your thoughts, report any issues, and help us make this even better together.
The team is hanging out in the comments below to respond to questions. Let's do this 💪
https://www.loom.com/share/9741d...
@ahiggz @julianameyer Hey Juliana! Your Launch Page is already connected. It's showing on the Product Hub.
I've been waiting for this day for a long time 🥰😻 nice work team! Now to launch another product!
P.S. how do you edit your hub page? Can't seem to figure that out!
Here’s the answer to my question about editing. Soon! Submit a Typeform request to edit for now: https://twitter.com/producthunt/...
@kunalslab Right now you need to submit a form to our team to review and implement. The form is accessible from the sidebar on the right, click "Request changes to this page" and fill out the request. We'll get right back to you.
We are working on roles and permissions to make sure the right people are getting access to edit a hub. Stay tuned 📡
Dig the update! It's so cleeeaaaannn. Makes Product Hunt feel fresh yet familiar. Love it and can't dig in more on the Hubs and Launch Pages!
Congrats team!! LOVE that products have a single source of truth now. Can't wait to see what else the team is up to, now excuse me as I go follow products for updates.
@gabe awesome to have you here! 😀 That's exactly the plan: Products now have one source of truth, while launches can still be celebrated and be part of the product history.
Thanks for your support! 💪
This is really exciting, @michaelberhane_ and I were just talking about how hard it can be to keep up with a product's journey... you may see the launch and get obsessed with it for a few weeks before other priorities take over. And sure, you may follow the brand on social media & subscribe to their emails, but you won't always get a a chance to engage with all the updates. And who has the time to scroll through different profiles and web pages to piece the story together? This is exciting... I can see folks looking up Product Hubs the way they look up Wiki pages. Great work, folks! 👏🏾
@michaelberhane_ @abadesi You hit the nail on the head! It's about building a real relationship with your community on Product Hunt, not just the launch moment. Let us know what you think as you start playing around with it 🙏
Really excellent addition! Community is the the best distribution channel possible. Engaging with that community presents all sorts of challenges. This should be great!
I've been using this site daily, and the new update feels so fresh. The "Follow for updates" feature is a great addition.
@vignestion Freshness guaranteed! Thanks for the kind words, we really appreciate it. Lots more to come :)
So excited to see this go live, well done to the team for all the hard work and love put into this 😻
Being able to better follow a company’s lifecycle and be notified when a team I’m following launches something new are by far my favourite features of this!
Historically Product Hunt has focused on one specific moment in a project or company's journey: The launch. We should be helping with the entire lifecycle.
I'm most excited to see how makers and founders use this in unexpected ways. 🧐
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