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Are you a top hunter on Producthunt?

Find people willing to hunt your product on Producthunt

I'm building a simple tool where top hunters can take new product requests from makers.
Hunters can also submit products to other hunters and stop accepting new requests whenever they like.

I got the idea from @benlang Producthunt form.

If you are a hunter, I would love to have you onboard.
If you find any bugs..please let me know πŸ˜…

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    Interesting idea. Is it still beneficial to get hunted by a popular hunter? I thought they changed the algorithm that it no longer notifies followers?

    It would be cool to see the type of products they hunt to give an idea of whether your product will be relevant to their followers

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      PH always recommend hunting your own product and the reasoning is what you said.

      Even though they don't send email notifications to the followers they still notify all the followers in app, which is still a big deal.

      Also having a top hunter on your side really helps to attract more eyeballs and getting featured gets easier, otherwise I can say from my past experience it's not as easy to get featured if you are just a first time maker.

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    Just signed up and added myself as an hunter.
    Looks cool

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      πŸŽ‰ that's awesome Alex! you are the first hunter!
      Let me know if you found any bugs.. πŸ˜…

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        So far so good. Waiting for the first request :)

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          Great! happy hunting 😊

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    Very cool!

    I'm interested, was going to sign up, but saw this

    Access your and other users public information
    Access the site and your user settings on your behalf

    Can you clarify?

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      I looked around a bit and found this page https://api.producthunt.com/v1/docs

      Privileges
      By default all apps are read-only.
      Please understand that we currently do not provide write access (e.g. creating upvotes for a user) to third party developers.
      The Product Hunt API must not be used for commercial purposes. If you would like to use it for your business, please contact us at hello@producthunt.com.

      so basically it will only get your public ph profile info with no worry of my app making any changes to your account at all.

      Hope this helps :)

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      Glad you liked it Ben!

      I had to implement PH auth in order to verify authentic PH hunters and spam control.

      But I can't find any permission exclusion api on their doc :( it seems to be very bare bone at this point.

      I would love to improve it if someone can point be towards the specific doc for it.

      Having you on board would be awesome! after-all it's basically your original idea 😊

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        Got it, thanks!

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          Welcome on board Ben πŸŽ‰

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          One product idea for you: add a score for avg # of upvotes per product. Great way to rank hunters.

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            That's an awesome idea! I will definitely implement it if there is a API for it.

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                Perfect, I'm on it