Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Show HN? Other platforms to showcase

Re:Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Show HN? Other plat... by franciscop on Thursday March 09, 2017 @08:43AM (#13829136)

I had a bad experience:

1. It was invitation-only when I tried to join it. No real complain here, it just didn't make sense for this kind of page and I don't like it.

2. Then a couple of projects of mine got to the front-page of HN and someone -- I am guessing an admin -- added them to Product Hunt with an email I never gave them which resulted in waves of SPAM.

I cannot stress the 2nd point enough. Imagine that you make a project, a random person re-publishes it in some network you were denied entering and now for every person who comments in there you get a low-quality email.

Edit: for clarity I hope

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Re:Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Show HN? Other plat... by j_s on Thursday March 09, 2017 @08:59AM (#13829248)

I don't understand I cannot stress [...] enough: someone [...] added them to Product Hunt with an email I never gave them which resulted in waves of SPAM

You do not use filters? Free feedback, straight to your inbox!

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Re:Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Show HN? Other plat... by franciscop on Thursday March 09, 2017 @09:36AM (#13829517)

As far as I remember the feedback was a lot like cool project!, which is also nice but nothing compared with the previous front-page of HN as it was the same positive sentiment but with a lot of useful comments. About filters I use Gmail, so mostly use the stock ones which are good for bot SPAM, but not for user-generated comments.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Show HN? Other plat... by j_s on Thursday March 09, 2017 @09:44AM (#13829566)

Differentiating user-generated comments can be a pain; I would hope ProductHunt sends notification emails from the same source!

Thanks for filling in the additional detail.

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