Stuart Kearney

Agreed on the concern about splitting up the communities but three things: 1: you can brand it just like PH and have it on a meta.producthunt.co URL 2: you can have SSO so you can share logins across the two sites 3: having a dedicated place for the community to talk about itself might generate more discussion overall. Especially the kind of feedback you're chasing for PH.

@rrhoover yep, I've been looking into that as well as a bunch of other prior art (ethereum, bitshares etc). I'm currently investigating a approach for giving community members equity that's tied into the karma/badge system + SO style moderation elections. I'm hoping by abstracting equity into an appcoin, and having the members invest via time instead of cash we can sidestep some of the legal...

@alexisohanian what do you think about motivating a community not with cash, but with equity. An appcoin tied to the valuation of a company with strict restrictions on the liquidity. I like the idea of my community members who have poured so much time into the site being rewarded for helping it succeed. I think cash has obvious issues as a tool for motivating a community, but I think there is a...

@rrhoover this is built into the architecture of the product. We have no problems with people adding their own products and adding reasons why they like them. If the community at large agree with what was added it will be voted higher, if it's misleading it will either get edited or won't receive votes. The problem is less stopping people from adding the content, but from stopping them from...

Hey guys! Thanks for the share. We're basically trying to learn how to help people make decisions between products/services. We're working really hard at the moment to try and make the Information Architecture more intuitive to navigate & understand. For example on this topic: http://www.slant.co/topics/100/~what-is-the-best-android-phone If you click around a bit you will hopefully...