Proposal: Change Product Hunt ranking algorithm

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Proposal: Change Product Hunt ranking algorithm #85

Closed hstove closed 5 years ago

hstove commented 5 years ago

For April 2019, we are going to do a dry run with the following changes to your Product Hunt score:

Include a 90% monthly decay to your Product Hunt total upvotes. This will make a single big launch count less over time. Right now, if you got lucky with a great launch, it gives you a huge score forever. You can also re-hunt your app every ~6ish months if your app has significant changes.
Include a new metric, which takes into account your number of new credible upvotes since last month.

stackatron commented 5 years ago

Sounds like this is good. Moving to done.

radedoc commented 5 years ago

Are you sure you mean a 90% monthly decay? That would mean that only 10% of your product hunt votes carry on from month to month which would mean your product hunt votes go to 0 in a matter of 2 or 3 months.

radedoc commented 5 years ago

Not sure if you mean 10% month to month decay which sounds a lot more reasonable.

hstove commented 5 years ago

I think you're probably right - you get 90% of your votes from last month, or 10% go away.