App Mining Reviewer Product Hunt
Paid Popularity Contest
We’ve learned that there are a number of ways to game your upvotes on Product Hunt beyond just getting every person you know to vote. There is even an official way as this email we received from Product Hunt shows–it says we can pay them to re-feature our product on the homepage and their newsletter:
There’s also the unofficial way that @bodymindarts pointed out during the mining rewards alpha run, where you buy 90 votes for a bargain–$5: Some initial thoughts on the App Mining Program .
Transparency
The Product Hunt “Team Score” is mysterious offering no direct feedback or transparency other than a number. We significantly improved user experience December through January, yet our score dropped from 8.85 to 6.25 during this period. It’s puzzling when we compare it to the scoring of other Chat Apps–one of which is not even functional. The below image shows Hermes after sending a message–it disappeared and all we saw was errors in the Chrome console…
That same non-working App is the highest ranked by Product Hunt in the January scoring below:
Since we have no visibility into our Product Hunt team score, we can only speculate that they ran into technical issues related to the numerous Blockstack issues during the review cycle. For instance:
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If they tried the app during last week of December, then they probably faced this issue: Number of Issues After Most Recent Browser Release
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If they tried the app during the app review period, they probably faced this issue: Recent Blockstack Browser Vulnerability Discovery and Mitigation