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jacquesc Mar 6, 2016 | on: Open Hunt is shutting down | context
If someone wants to take over OpenHunt, email us at support@openhunt.co The code and production database is available (with all the users and projects), so you'd be able pick it up right where it left off. I was going to write up a post-mortem but haven't gotten to it yet. Anthony Franco's comment on HN was pretty spot on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10940729 Would like to reiterate (as I said on the original launch threads on HN), OpenHunt had no animosity towards ProductHunt. The community (including me) had some critiques against how PH was being run, but instead of constantly complaining about things, we launched an experiment to see if things would be better with an open source community. It didn't work out this go around, but I'm hopeful another team can do better. |
OpenHunt tried solving a problem for the content makers without providing any additional benefit to the content consumers.
It's a nice, heart-warming mission. But in the end of the day, content is king, that's what consumers want.
There have been many examples of people rallying around a "free and open" version of a service. They fail to realize that the end consumer barely cares. Look at voat (Reddit), app.net (Twitter), Diaspora (Facebook), even ycreject.com (Y Combinator) tried to be a thing for a while.
If someone is able to make it "free and open" while also making it a better experience than the alternative, then it'll be a big success. But so far everyone gets that wrong.