Product Hunt

“A bunch of people at Betaworks were on the early on an early version, I think it was an email before it was even a website.”

“I use product hunt as a way to find investment. We've made investments that were initiated on product hunt.”

“I remember when we first started talking to Ryan from product time, one of the things that we had done was this network analysis with our data. I had sat down with our data scientists and started mapping out the networks of this on Twitter. Because it's so pub…”

“Communities are kind of like a home, and when you move the furniture around, whether it's better or not, people are like, whoa, you moved the furniture, why didn't you ask me?”

“Leading into, to the YC interview, we were growing 50% month over month”

“In five years, you'll see Product Hunt turn into a community and a site for all kinds of people and all kinds of things. And it will be a place where you can find all kinds of things from You know, whatever you're most passionate about, and you can find like-m…”

“Matt, for example, he was a super early user, Matt at beta works. And when we started, when I started talking to him, like he already understood the value of it and he was a user and consumed it daily himself.”

“To make a community work, to build something like this, you need to really focus on the people in the beginning and do a lot of frankly manual, like labor, manual things to get it going.”

“Small brunches with, you know, six to 10 people. A lot of them, people in, in entrepreneurship or startups or whatnot. And those have been fantastic because it's a great way to build a really small but, like, very intimate relationship in some ways with people…”

“Like, we're going to look for patterns, and we're going to make changes, but there will inevitably be people that say, oh, like, this button shouldn't be here, and we're not going to move it just because they say this button shouldn't be here. Like, not all th…”

“The first version was really a Ruby on Rails app that Nathan, my buddy, he built it over like a five-day Thanksgiving holiday”

“There's the email digest, which hundreds of thousands of people subscribe to.”

“Investors started approaching me before I never actually approached investors in the beginning.”

“It's probably one of the most important products in my life. Actually without Twitter, I don't even know where I'd be, which is kind of a weird statement to make, but it's such a serendipity machine and has allowed me to meet a lot of people, and of course it'…”

“Product Hunt is a community I've been a huge supporter of, like you, and sort of it's a, it's an ecosystem that I love, and it turned out to be a really important one for early stage venture, because that's where you find a bunch of really interesting companie…”

“Before Gigster, we actually tried about 25 different ideas. We built prototypes, shipped them on Product Hunt or Hacker News.”

“Users flock to a simple product. They get so excited by something new, novel, simple, shiny, and then that new simple product that enjoyed its launch on product hunt and, you know, has all this really great simplicity that people are compelled by. That new pro…”

“So I can imagine five years from now, people building the next, not just MVPs, but entire software products on top of Webflow, like the next Airbnb, whatever that idea is, the next Twitter, the next product hunt, all of it.”

“The guys on product hunt or Twitter, They don't, right? And you can relearn, like, 10 times. No one will ever notice.”