The idea of notifications that you can sign up for without downloading another app is incredibly powerful. You could sprinkle these buttons within Tweets and Facebook posts.
Most interestingly, I think a Yo subscription humanizes the service. It almost feels like ProductHunt, your friend, is calling out "Yo!" to you as a person.
@abe_storey to be honest, we actually didn't automate this but instead it requires me to manually "yo". Unfortunately I have no idea how many people are "following" Product Hunt. Curious to see where Or takes this though, yo.
@orarbel just released the Yo Button, a widget you can embed on your site. It looks like this:
Once the user clicks the button, it displays the username to "yo" to get a "yo" when that event occurs.
I just created one here. When a product reaches 50 upvotes on Product Hunt, you'll get a "yo."
Or - want to jump in w/ more details, yo?
Here's the original Yo thread.
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