All grown up

Pros:

Focus on recommendations

Cons:

More things going on around the app

Badges! ;)

Each Product Hunt releasegets significantly better. Great job 🙏🙏🏻🙏🏼

This is so great @rrhoover! Loving the new design for links and badges are really great!

Open reviews bring more objectivity into what excites us into a product. It is like a quick NPS though not a replacement of strategically planned NPS.

Discussions have always been healthy - direct and friendly.

Jobs are a welcome add, plus the contextually related product.

I am not sure what else a startup needs to share/announce when they launch (Lets not drag the teams, metrics, pitch decks, and rounds so fast. AL handles that pretty well as of now).

PS: I had shared my detailed thoughts in *early access* message. :)

Pros:

ProductHunt is turning out to be a liittle wikipedia for startups - Objective reviews, jobs, web links, related products, open discussions.

Cons:

Too addictive, often a healthy morning tussle between my coffee, Medium, and ProductHunt. And my son!

Not as useful as it once was. While it used to offer a large array of interesting and unique products, it has degraded since "the good old days" (only a year or two ago). Product Hunt used to truly only display a select few products, all of which are high quality, interesting and useful. Nowadays it is like reddit: not bad to burn some free time, but the golden nuggets are few and far between. Everyday I visit there is a trump meme website, a handful of shameful sites, launch pages for products that may never exist, and side project websites designed to exploit the PH community for a quick 2 week money grab. What used to be high quality curated content, is now a cluster F*%& of random websites. I still visit once a week to see the most upvoted content and see the few products per week worth my time, but unfortunately PH has lost its status of being a daily routine website I check every morning.

Pros:

Occasional useful or interesting products

Worth a visit once a week or two

Cons:

What used to be a quality curated list of products is now a garbage pile I have to sort myself

Half the listings are self promotional

I've loved this product from the beginning. This update adds such useful features, so I love it even more.

Pros:

So much fun to see and test new products.

Cons:

Maybe less fun so I work more :)

The future of Product Hunt is pretty clear with these latest updates – a great place to go check out all the info you need for a product you're interested in, and a fantastic way to discover new products too. Awesome stuff, PH team! 🎉

Pros:

Takes profiles from being a short-term launch page to a long-lasting centralised repo of product info.

Cons:

There's more information so there's more to scan, but I think this is just a result of the change – I'll get used to it.

Love the new ProductHunt/Angelist jobs integration. Love a company's product? Why not work there. It makes total sense. LinkedIn needs competition on the jobs listing front because it can be pretty frustrating to use. Angelist is awesome but there ought to be more jobs on there IMHO, which hopefully this helps solve. Nice work.

This update is super useful for people deciding whether or not to use a product. Sometime you want to do a deep dive into a product before deciding whether or not to use it.

The "😻 reviews" feature, as well as the "🔗 Around the Web" section makes this deep dive super easy.

Pros:

If used correctly, way more useful information about each product.

Cons:

Can be quite visually overwhelming initially. Also, the "website" link could stand out a bit more.

Great set of features!

so meta, nice work team!

Wow, this feels so cool / intuitive! Love the update!

❤️

Stop dicking about with the layout and create an Android app!

Congrats!! It looks very cool guys

As products get more sophisticated and complex, it can be great for EXISTING users and those familiar with the journey, but really hard for NOOBS. Think of how simple Facebook might have been when you first joined, but how complex it can be for an older person signing-up today.

The journey is an important component to contextual UX, and one of the hardest things to do is to replicate first-time experience.

Scott Belsky has a good post about this: https://chmln.co/2evqWJn and so does Julie Zhou: http://bit.ly/1VD1rDJ

Pros:

Great additional context for assessing tools

Cons:

Harder for new users to navigate

Nice. Already updated a couple FullStory listings with more on deck!

I think texts in sidebar are hard to read.

Product Hunt started as a simple list, surfacing new products to the world. Since then its evolved into a database of products with videos, images, conversation, related products, and much more, curated by the community. We've been quietly working on some big updates to the product pages. Our goal: make product pages more useful for the community and makers. Today we're introducing some additions: 🏆 Badges — You'll notice some product are awarded a badge to highlight their popularity and past achievements (e.g. “#1 Product of the Month on May, 2017”). Example: Not Hotdog ✏️ Descriptions — Descriptions help illustrate what the product does, who it's for, and how it works at a glance. Example: Membit 😻 Reviews — Upvotes are a simple, powerful method of curation but they don't necessarily represent the “quality” of a product nor is it a fair metric when comparing products. Now you can write reviews to help others discover products you love (and those you don't). Example: My review of Spoonbill 🔗 Around the Web — We often see people link to news articles, reviews, funding announcements, blog posts, and other web links within the comments. Now you can add these links in a dedicated “Around the Web” section to provide more context and give everyone a place to learn more about the product. Example: AirPods 🐤 Social Links — You'll begin to see links to the team's accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Medium, MySpace (j/k), and more. Example: Honey ✌️ Jobs — Often the best time to recruit is on launch day. Now makers can promote their open jobs on their product page by simply adding their AngelList company profile. Example: YC-backed Scale is hiring engineers Next up: We're improving the product submission process to make it much faster to share products with the community and making improvements to the above based on your feedback. Thoughts/ideas/questions!? Let us know. 🙏🏼