Let's Create a Better Product Hunt
As the person who started the Product Hunt beatdown last thread, and would like nothing more than to see a good PH competitor, I regrettably have a few issues with this.<p>1. The hypothetical example you give about the Financial Times writing favorable stories for investors is an example of <i>conflict of interest</i>, which is a different issue than the elitist exclusivity discussed last thread. (And much more gray)<p>2. As noted in the previous thread, both Reddit and Hacker News are transparent in terms of submission moderation, which is what is being proposed here. (Albeit less modern)<p>3. Having an anonymous account post this Google Doc does not build trust in that you could build a competitor. There is more to building a link aggregator ranking system than following a Rails tutorial.<p>4. Having random people come together to build an idea just because they can doesn't work well. That's why Idea Sundays stopped on HN.<p>My dream startup would be an optimized link aggregator; the use of upvotes as a statistic for quality is why I spent so much time doing data analysis on Reddit and HN data. But this isn't the way to build a competitor.