![]() ![]() Further down the road, the company may expand beyond the tech space to curate other types of products that would interest a broader audience than the Silicon Valley set and those from the startup scene who quickly fill the ranks as the early adopters to new services like this. #PRODUCT HUNT SIMILAR SITES SERIES#The company recently raised a $6.1 million Series A from a16z, Alexis Ohanian, and others largely off of the community Product Hunt has been able to build around those who are sharing their enthusiasm for new tech products. This latter item would allow users to hover their cursor over a username anywhere on the site and then click a button to follow them on the card that pops up, instead of having to browse over to a user profile to follow that person, as you do now. Follower data is also being integrated into the API, he says in response to a question posted on Twitter, and hover card support is planned. ![]() In a ‘tweetstorm’ of sorts, he also noted that additional social notifications were in the works. ![]() The new profiles and features were announced in an email sent to subscribers this morning as well as by Hoover on Twitter. For example, now the people you follow are displayed first in the list of upvoters on the product page, Hoover points out. “But we’re adding layers of social functionality – starting with notifying users when people they follow post a product – and will add more later,” he says. He says the company is keeping the site relatively simple in that it’s a homepage with a list of products the community finds most interesting, every day. The change will likely encourage more active participation from community members who may have otherwise lurked on the site, as now their activity is being quantified in a more straightforward way, and their influence is being made known by way of their follower count.Īccording to Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover, just over 90,000 have signed up for the service but many more lurk. When you follow your fellow Product Hunt users, you’re able to receive a notification when they post a new product to the site, the company explains. (Side note: more people are into Kevin Rose than Snoop Dogg on here, indicating the site’s tech bias.) You can also now keep track of the who’s who on the buzzy tech site, as Product Hunt’s profiles include Twitter-like counts of how many people are following a given user, and how many others that person is following in return. The new profiles offer a variety of information about the poster, including a bio, Twitter handle, and tabs for products they’ve upvoted, submitted, made themselves and more. Product Hunt, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed aggregation site currently focused on surfacing new tech products and startups, is now turning itself into something of a social network this morning with the launch of redesigned user profiles, following features and notifications. ![]()
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