Product Hunt should be named Project Hunt

13 points by gnkchintu 10y ago ↗ HN

I have been following product hunt from the last few months actively. I see a lot of products which are not worthy of being called a product. Majority of them are a side projects that people can work on or a company can work on. I dont understand why people claim a side project as a product. ProductHunt in my mind is no more than a ProjectHunt.

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joshmn 10y ago ↗

It's also a boy's club.

Relevant discussion from December 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875

gnkchintu 10y ago ↗

Yep i completely agree

pheonikai 10y ago ↗

'Product' for me is anything which is complete and can be used by other people whereas I consider 'project' to be unpolished version meant for my own use only. Going by that, product hunt name seems fine. It is not a start-up hunt and not every product is meant to be used by masses.

minimaxir 10y ago ↗

This is one of the many side effects of Product Hunt not opening submission rights to everyone and actually addressing claims of elitism.

Low-quality submissions can get prime placement when all the submitters friends upvote it. https://medium.com/@minimaxir/product-hunt-s-response-to-acc...

[dead] meanary 10y ago ↗

Psycho/human qualities with computer characteristics are my CSS in terms of language problems. Objectification is, beyond "The Alphabet Effect" and https://archive.today/?run=1&url=http://web.archive.org/web/..., just a memory return path.