Looks promising and useful. I wouldn't use the web interface on a regular
basis but would look at a daily RSS feed.
A.
On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 10:01:35 AM UTC+11, speldie23 wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We've recently launched Product Hoist <http://producthoist.com.au> - a
> place to discover innovative Australian products. Below is a bit of
> background as to why we launched it - would really love the Silicon Beach
> community to get involved and would welcome any feedback, feature requests
> or anything else.
>
> I'm a huge fan of Product Hunt, it's one of the few websites I read every
> single day - Ryan Hoover and his team have done a phenomenal job building
> one of the most interesting and supportive communities on the internet.
> However, Product Hunt, being based in Silicon Valley and having graduated
> from Y Combinator, is by it's nature very US centric. With a few notable
> exceptions (Ship my Enemies Glitter, Wonder.fm and a few others), it is
> often hard to discover innovative Australian startups on Product Hunt.
>
> I've thought for the past year or so that it would be valuable to create
> an Australian version - a place focused on Australian innovation and a
> community for Australian creators to get thoughtful, early feedback and
> validation for their products. We soft launched a couple of weeks ago and
> we've had over 100 products posted, 114 comments and over 20,000 page views.
>
> Success for Product Hoist is all about building an engaged community. If
> we can establish Product Hoist as the place for Australian product creators
> to go to get thoughtful feedback about their products, the place for
> investors to go to discover their next investment and for journalists to go
> to find interesting stories then it will be successful. To do that we need
> to get all those groups of people posting and voting on products and
> participating in discussions around them.
>
> As we grow, we'll be measuring a few key metrics of success...
>
> - User base - tipping point, how many users does it take so that we
> are getting 4-5 new products posted everyday? We think we'll reach a
> tipping point once we get to about 500 active users.
> - Community & Engagement - how many people are voting for products
> each day? How many are actively engaging in discussions? How many are
> clicking links? How much time are they spending on the site? Who are our
> users - are they creators, investors and journalists?
> - Strike rate - when we actively reach out to creators, investors and
> journalists, how many are signing up to the site?
> - Partnerships - we'll be looking to partner with incubators like
> Startmate
>
> <http://t.signalequattro.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg7gbZV0N4Xr2s6Sb0RgW4WJ4Ss56dzrHf5Q8ZTj02?t=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.startmate.com.au%2F&si=6337211498758144&pi=a2232ed4-bb20-49a8-a164-ad14b8feb71b>,
>
> coworking spaces like River City Labs
>
> <http://t.signalequattro.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg7gbZV0N4Xr2s6Sb0RgW4WJ4Ss56dzrHf5Q8ZTj02?t=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rivercitylabs.net%2F&si=6337211498758144&pi=a2232ed4-bb20-49a8-a164-ad14b8feb71b>
> and
> TV shows like That Startup Show
>
> <http://t.signalequattro.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XYg7gbZV0N4Xr2s6Sb0RgW4WJ4Ss56dzrHf5Q8ZTj02?t=http%3A%2F%2Fthatstartupshow.tv%2Fv2%2F&si=6337211498758144&pi=a2232ed4-bb20-49a8-a164-ad14b8feb71b>
> or
> even Shark Tank to increase our reach and add value to the community.
>
> With that in mind, we would very much appreciate any feedback from the
> Australian startup community about how we can build Product Hoist into
> something truly valuable.
>
> For those of you interested the team at thesauceco.de and I have taken a
> lean approach to development on this building on the back of Sacha Greif's
> awesome Telesc.pe
> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2FTelesc.pe&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNF_GaMjnAVEBQsNUuDK61qEmofqYw>
>
> framework.
>
>
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