📣 Need your feedback to make Huzzler great again

Hi everyone 👋 I'm soon starting the next development cycle for Huzzler and urgently need your opinions 😁

I'm a solo developer working on Huzzler, and I'm struggling to decide what to focus on. Your feedback would really help here.

Option 1: focus on the founder feed. Add daily interesting articles about tech, success stories, case studies. This will drastically reduce my time available to work on Huzzler and there are already some sites out there with daily news content (eg indie-hackers). However, these success stories could provide a lot of value.

Option 2: Focus on improving the community. Hide the founder feed from the homepage or add fewer articles and focus on making this community better. I'd like to add

verifiable MRR with stripe (MRR badge on profile)
KYC required + strict no AI policy. You'll have to verify with passport / drivers license using an external service. Everyday, people are getting more and more tired of the AI bots on platforms like X. On Huzzler anyone posting or commenting using an AI bot will be banned (3 warnings). It will be a very strict no-AI platform. It may seem overkill but will may sure you get to see real valuable posts instead of generic AI generated ones.
MRR chart on profile + cooler profile pages 😎
Project Milestones: new kind of structured post where post about the goal you achieved, how you did it and what you learned (this will be useful for learning from each other).
Resource Hub: Hand picked resources and sites so you can use just one platform (Huzzler 😉) to find the best: launch platforms, indie hacker blogs, directories, marketplaces, newsletters, free coding courses.

What do you think would be best for Huzzler? I'm personally leaning towards option 2. Any other ideas are welcome (especially regarding the founder feed and placement, maybe we should show news articles the same way as posts? but with distinct styling?)

Thanks so much for everyone who is still a part of Huzzler. With your help, we'll make Huzzler great again 😁I really want to make this the best place to connect with other founders and learn from each other.

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@krzysztof

2 days ago

I'm really feeling option 2. Actual community beats just another news feed any day. The MRR and milestone stuff sounds great, and that no-AI policy is perfect. Maybe keep some articles if they're really good, but yeah people first.

@vincent

2 days ago

Good to know. I'll be prioritizing the community aspect 😁

@ari

2 days ago

Consider a Gumroad verifiable MRR -- lots of my income comes from there
also, consider limiting the number of posts a person makes per week
saw this guy post about their landscaping / tiling / roofing business here and just doesn't interact -- also it contrasts the tech heavy nature of huzzler. You'll have to choose what kind of makers you wish to keep in the long run.

@vincent

2 days ago

Yea I've removed those posts and banned them, you're correct. I'll implement some stuff do detect posts per week so it can be easily checked by a moderator. I have no idea how all these people discovered Huzzler, someone probably posted in a landscaping facebook group or something 😂

And yess, I'll add Gumroad verifiable MRR to the to-dos. Great idea.

@Veravibez

2 days ago

I think both routes have merit. Regarding option 2, when you say KYC required does that mean you'll be asking for identify proof on sign up? Couldn't that decrease conversions?

How can you tell if someone has commented or posted with an AI bot? Do you mean like used chatgpt for example? Are you manually removing them currently?

I think verified MRR sounds good if people are making those claims

@vincent

2 days ago

Thank you for the feedback. Yes. That would mean decreased people would sign up. I think I'd rather build a community of fewer real people than hundreds of fake bots and AI reply bots. Because I know on X everyone is getting tired of those. And also the scammers / spammers problem would be solved.

It's basic quality > quantity 😁 I think people would prefer that.

To answer your second question: we could do that using multiple ways. There are external llm detection tools that work really well. And most obvious AI written posts we could just delete manually when detected. Also to detect bots we can look at the pattern. If the user replies 100 times per hour and AI detected, they probably are. and we could do a system with 3 warnings before banning people.

again, it's quality > quantity. Hope this helps explain it and thanks for your feedback 😁 What do you think?

@Veravibez

2 days ago

Makes sense. How many bots do you detect on a weekly basis? What about adding Cloudfare checkbox for real person on sign-ups? Or intermittently as browse the site, I see that on some websites, but not sure it it's foolproof.
Wouldn't you want to get people to sign up first and then give them 30 days for KYC or similar?

I can't think of any platforms that ask it for upfront. I could be wrong?

@vincent

2 days ago

yes I could add regular checkboxes to prevent and aid allow browsing the site but for commenting or posting you need phone verification or kyc

@vincent

2 days ago

and not many but it will become a problem once the community grows.

@vincent

2 days ago

another simpler option would be phone verification

@Veravibez

2 days ago

If you have a bot problem I think that's maybe better than KYC as it's asking less from the user. Although some may get spooked that you're going to send them SMS message updates

@vincent

2 days ago

Exactly! I think I’ll go with sms verification for now but i’m not gonna use it to send notifications. I’ll weigh pro and cons of kyc and sms

@Veravibez

2 days ago

Do you add it at sign up or after email verification or even before posting or commenting?

@vincent

2 days ago

Hmm, I'm not sure. Probably require direct email verification during setup and requesting phone verification before posting or commenting.

@vincent

2 days ago

Also thanks to the feedback from @ostibuilds I also want to add that I’d steer te platform away from posts like “Made $10K with this easy method, buy my course now” and more towards real posts, from real people with verified MRR.

For instance, we could add a rule that you may only make bold monetary claims like “made $10K in a week” if you actually have the verified MRR. mods could remove the posts if not

@ari

2 days ago

That's a good idea. Ask people to prove the big numbers.

@vincent

2 days ago

Awesome! Thanks for the feedback