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Re:Magic by bhaumik on Sunday February 22, 2015 @12:46AM (#9088407)
Hm, well here's a startling difference between the HN and Product Hunt community.

The PH comments:

  This website looks extremely untrustworthy, purely from a design standpoint. I feel a lot of potential users would be put off by this!

  Interesting idea. Terrible site design. Unclear if they're charging for this added convenience.
http://www.producthunt.com/posts/magic
Re:Magic by slaction on Sunday February 22, 2015 @01:40AM (#9088519)
ProductHunt is just a useless hype machine for starts that don't hold any real value at all.
Re:Magic by scarlson on Sunday February 22, 2015 @05:35AM (#9088965)
There are those that would say HN is no different.
Re:Magic by matznerd on Sunday February 22, 2015 @05:41AM (#9088988)
Not true, Product Hunt delivers quality traffic, with high-level people who are hungry for products and convert very well.
Re:Magic by username223 on Sunday February 22, 2015 @11:34AM (#9089879)
> Not true, Product Hunt delivers quality traffic, with high-level people who are hungry for products and convert very well.

Are you a human being talking about other human beings, or a "market opportunity" about-talking "quality traffic" that "converts very well?" I should write a "quality traffic" bot with "good conversions," then post it on Product Hunt.

Re:Magic by coderzach on Sunday February 22, 2015 @11:34AM (#9089878)
High quality SV echo chamber traffic.
Re:Magic by lurcio on Sunday February 22, 2015 @08:31AM (#9089319)
I was under the impression a lot of people use it for idea generation/competitive intel & that (in marketing terms) PH is a (small) traffic/link hack...

In other words I'd be interested to find anything on the quality of its traffic.

Re:Magic by slapresta on Sunday February 22, 2015 @11:36AM (#9089884)
Hi!

We launched one of those landing-only email-catching product pitches on Product Hunt and Designer News. It went amazing. We never even topped #1, yet we got lots of useful feedback and more than five hundred emails of potential customers, some of them high-profile (think @google.com or @abc.com)

Re:Magic by matznerd on Monday February 23, 2015 @03:16PM (#9096724)
The quality is very high.
Re:Magic by webXL on Sunday February 22, 2015 @10:08AM (#9089613)
That commenter at PH could tell the original design took 20 minutes, and if you only have resources to allocate 20 minutes to a product page design, how good can the product be? I think there are more in this community would agree about the original design without completely writing off the product's potential.
Re:Magic by cmikec on Sunday February 22, 2015 @01:30AM (#9088498)
This was pretty funny, actually. They saw the old version I mentioned above. I was surprised when someone posted it on there and I was actually glad that the reaction was lukewarm, because we didn't think we were ready to launch.

And then...boom.

Re:Magic by polynomial on Sunday February 22, 2015 @07:51PM (#9091979)
Time to trade up the chain?
Re:Magic by hellbanner on Sunday February 22, 2015 @08:17PM (#9092045)
Well, I agree with it. "Anything you want, just give us your credit card number". No explanation of who they are or why I should trust them. Hell, they even accept Bitcoin!