ĭave's lack of interest in replying to both the detailed bug report emails I sent to his support address and also the messages I posted to HN, not to mention the facts of AngelList's privacy violation email scandal itself, just reinforces my impression that the lights are on, but nobody's home. So I described my earlier bad experience and lack of support from AngelList on that HN thread, and although responded to a few other messages and solicited people contact him with further questions and concerns, he has never replied to any of my messages. When AngelList had their email privacy scandal, other people also complained that their support was non-existent. Not one person who ever contacted me through AngelList had anything to offer that they weren't trying to shill by spamming every other random AngelList user. All I ever got from the experience was a bunch of parasitic spam email.
#Bear writer angellist full#
Do they even have any full time web developers working there any more? If they do, they must be asleep at the wheel. I wrote several detailed bug reports to their support email address, and nobody ever bothered to reply, let alone fix the bugs. The impression I got from AngelList was that the lights were on, but nobody's home.Įvery time I tried to use their web site, I would encounter a comedy of errors, and trying to work around each problem would reveal yet another. You built a " selling" product for founders who don't know how " to sell" in the first place, I don't think there should be surprise that it failed.
#Bear writer angellist how to#
Why do you believe the actually selling and distribution method of a new product doesn't fall into the list of "critical things founders need to know how to do to have a successful business" and instead can be outsourced? You've got some unstated/hidden assumptions that I am trying to illuminate.
Manufacturing/distribution/development/salaries, so the marketing budget at these companies is basically zero. The typical budget of a new specialty food product is 30k - 100k per year total, and almost all of that is allocated for The number of new products that are actually interesting is very small, which means that there is a very high cost of discovering and reaching out to enough of these product makers to make the site viable. each year, 99% are generic commodities like a new kind of 2% milk or whatever. it never lasts.īecause even though there are 300,000 - 500,000 new consumer products launched in the U.S. I wish them the best, just as I wish any community founder / maintainer the best, because a high-quality community is one of the most precious things on this Earth. PH will just have a new set of pressures on them now. Reddit, Quora, HN, whatever the place – one you drive away the quality, it seldom comes back. I hope so too, but realistically I don't think any community that gets diluted can get un-diluted. > So I think this can be a good news, now that they can just let go and focus on the startup community instead of artificially trying to grow
I've seen it happen so many times and I've seen so many discussions about it over and over again that I've begun to consolidate my thoughts and relevant links about it on this URL:
This is the inevitable fate of all communities. As an early fan of ProductHunt I became saddened to watch their community get diluted and become more of a place for "growth hackers" to hang out than people who actually make things.
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