Slingshot allows users send a photo or video with text or drawings to another person. The recipient, however, can not open the picture without acknowledging that they want to open it and “sling” another image back to the initial sender.
About Slingshot on Product Hunt
“Facebook's new ephemeral photo/video app”
Slingshot launched on Product Hunt on June 17th, 2014 and earned 172 upvotes and 33 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. Slingshot allows users send a photo or video with text or drawings to another person. The recipient, however, can not open the picture without acknowledging that they want to open it and “sling” another image back to the initial sender.
On the analytics side, Slingshot competes within Tech — topics that collectively have 621.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Slingshot performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Slingshot?
Slingshot was hunted by Matt Galligan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Slingshot including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Matt Galligan