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Don't use the term "hunt" in the name, to me it just screams "dupe" instead of something unique. Go the route of improving what PH has and adding things that are missing.

Some ideas: - Users should be able to update their post to some extent.

- There's no "product page" in your app, build something where I can see people commenting, reacting, and maybe even sharing their own screenshots of it because that's something PH does pretty well but can be improved.

- "LAUNCHES WORTH YOUR SCROLL" sounds kinda cringe, change to something like "Find the next best thing" or make it random on load and have a few less in your face versions of it. Reddit has "homepage of the internet" which seems appropriate. You can have "have you launched yet?", "find the next best thing", "what's trending today"...etc

I have more ideas, feel free to message me or drop a way to contact you if you'd like more feedback :)

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Maybe not, “next best thing,” I don’t know about American English but in British English next best means second best.

At least in American English “next to best” would mean second whereas “next best thing” means something likely to be the best thing in the near future and it’s a very common idiom.

i am american and think "next best thing" means second best. maybe "next big thing" would be better but is a bit generic

i guess it's somewhat ambiguous here, but "next-best" would be second-best, while "next best" means "future best"

Do you not have sentence structures along the line of "I wanted the premium model but it was out of my budget so I went for the next best thing"?

I get we're trying to go for "next [best thing]" but yeah I (also UK) read it as "[next best] thing" and can't think of any examples where I'd read it as the former

I think you might be referring to the common american english idiom "next big thing", as "next best thing" means 2nd best in american english as well.

Note that "next bigGEST thing" also means the 2nd biggest thing.

This is the common usage in my experience (US).

To jump in on the confusion, I'm American and have seen it used both ways, completely dependent on context. When I read the original comment I understood it as 'next thing that we all think is best' rather than 'second best.'

But after reading the comments and thinking on it, I realize it's probably used more often in the context of 'second best.'

It really is an unfortunate name. How do you pronounce it, hunt lie? Hunt Lee? I'm not sure, but my first impression was it was a portmanteau of hunt and lie, which wouldn't be something I'd want my startup to be associated with

“Clever doesn’t sell, clarity does.”

Another American here -- never heard "next best" meaning anything other than second-best to what you're currently looking at.

"Next big thing" is commonly used and unambiguously means what's intended here.

I immediately got it. Understanding that the typical reader in this space is generally atypical “find the next best thing” would likely mean "look here to find the thing that's better than the current best." I guess it largely depends on who your audience is.

Get rid of it and make a link called "about" then do the boring thing and explain what is going on, why, how much, when, who? wtf?

>>> Don't use the term "hunt" in the name, to me it just screams "dupe" instead of something unique. Go the route of improving what PH has and adding things that are missing.

Here's additionally a solution versus just criticism^^:

How about PoshProduct. ProductPower.

The word product screams attention to both product hunt and ProductPower users. Just make the emoji bolt your logo. Product Power! Be the first to know.

Good luck! This is awesome.

How about “next favourite thing”

In American English "next best thing" means second best. It is used to suggest an alternative when you can't get what you want. "Don't have Coke, maybe get a Pepsi, it's the next best thing."

"Next big thing" means upcoming good thing.

huntle would be better, or relativelyhuntled.com https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/c5ab6ff2-0439-4ae2-8782-08830bf...

I've seen it used both ways, "next best thing" is one of those phrases at least in American English that is highly context-dependent.

Which still makes it a bad choice for marketing copy.

They want something that isn't likely to be misinterpreted, and I've never seen that phrase used to mean "next big thing", only "second best".

> Don't use the term "hunt" in the name, to me it just screams "dupe" instead of something unique. > [...] > You can have "have you launched yet?", "find the next best thing", "what's trending today"...etc

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The thing that jumped out to me more the "hunt" word was "lie" - not great connotations. I assume it's supposed to be more like "ly"?

That was the first thing I noticed too.

It's not "(next best) thing", it's "next (best thing)". As in the best thing that is coming up next. Not the thing that is next-best.

As an American, I can't recall "The next best thing" ever meaning "second best' but rather the up and coming latest and greatest thing.

Big country though, could be a regional thing.