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Hoover: Eventually a majority of people will spend their lives in VR
“I also almost don't see a future where at some point that's where a majority of people spend their lives because we're already pretty close.”
Hoover: More B2B companies do well on Product Hunt than B2C
“Some people, they ask me, hey, like, I don't know, is Product Hunt, like, Do B to B companies do well there? And I'm like, yeah, like probably more B to B companies than B to C companies actually.”
Hoover: Product Hunt will expand to all passion categories within 5 years
“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…”
Hoover: Product Hunt did not monetize until after its AngelList acquisition
“We raised a seed in the series A, we had capital to grow, and we didn't actually try to make money until after we were acquired by AngelList.”
Hoover: At most 50% of products on Product Hunt are consumer
“People think that most of product hunt is actually consumer as well. It's probably, I don't know, 50% at most is consumer. There's a lot of B to B stuff on there.”
Hoover: McDonald's partnered with Niantic across 3,000 stores in Japan
“Today, they announced it just got released in Japan, the game for the first time, and McDonald's partnered with them, and their gym's now at nearly 3000 stores in Japan.”
Hoover: A community-driven podcast discovery leader will inevitably emerge
“From a market perspective, I don't see a world where we don't have something like that in podcasts, like a place where people can discover and engage and almost geek out about podcasts together. To date, those exist in like on Reddit to some extent and, Variou…”
Hoover: Tech will see more distributed teams driven by Slack and Zoom
“I believe we'll see more and more distributed teams, more remote workers. It's sort of this movement towards that direction. And I think more people will be willing to build teams like that because it's easier to work remotely with Slack and like various video…”
Hoover: Product Hunt grew 50% month-over-month leading into YC
“Leading into, to the YC interview, we were growing 50% month over month”
Hoover: Miami is cheaper all-in than the Bay Area and LA
“It's cheaper than the Bay Area. It's cheaper than LA. When you kind of counter Kind of like all in costs.”
Hoover: Product Hunt reached cash flow breakeven within 12 months of monetizing
“Once we started generating revenue, we did so very quickly and we got to cashflow breakeven. I want to say a year, maybe 12 months after we started generating revenue.”
Hoover: Weekend Fund has invested in over 110 companies
“We've invested in over a 110 companies now.”
Hoover: Product Hunt Grew 50% Month-over-Month Leading Into YC Application
“We, if I'm not mistaken, I think we were like 50% month over month. And that's not counting like with hundred users in month one, but it was like over the course of a few months with some users.”
Hoover: Wirecutter never raised a full venture capital round
“They never raised like a real VC full round.”
Hoover: Gabe Rivera has never raised outside capital for Techmeme
“What Gabe's done with TechMe, which has been around forever. You know, it's been, it's basically a force and like a thing that everyone in technology knows about... And it doesn't, he hasn't raised money.”
Hoover: Massive influx of new software products will be built by 2024
“In fact, in the next five years, we're going to see a ridiculous number of products being built, partly because it's more accessible, it's easier, you don't actually need any money to build anything.”
Hoover: Nintendo stock rose 96% after Pokémon Go launch
“Nintendo is up to 96%. I just took this morning since early July.”
Hoover: Foursquare foot traffic data accurately predicted Chipotle sales declines
“Using Foursquare data that can predict that Chipotle sales are going down just due to the foot traffic alone.”
Hoover: Product Hunt grew user visits 50% MoM in early months
“It was obviously still very small because it was pretty early days, but we were seeing about 50% month-over-month growth in total, like, top-line user visits. And that was consistent for the first, I don't know, two, three, four months.”
Hoover: Product Hunt started as a 20-minute email list setup
“So built this email list, sent it out, got a few hundred subscribers initially, and it took me 20 minutes to set up.”
Hoover: Casey Neistat used Product Hunt's Ship for Beme Panels
“Like Casey Neistat and his new app, they used it to start capturing interest for beam panels or new app that's coming out.”
Hoover: AngelList's original MVP was an email digest
“AngelList, ironically, was one of those. Like, AngelList's MVP essentially was an email digest.”
Hoover: Over half of Product Hunt's community is outside the US
“More than half the product and community is actually outside the U S”
Hoover: Manual Twitter outreach converted 80% of makers to join Product Hunt
“And so when we realized that I would every morning go on Twitter and like search for their Twitter username and say Hey Jill, your product is, is over here. People are talking about it. Do you want to join and answer questions? And like, 80% of the time they'd…”
Hoover: AngelList platform sets up funds for $12k replacing $100k costs
“So they do all of this work that would normally cost maybe a 100,000 dollars to set up all for like 12,000 dollars
and they take a piece of the carry.”
Hoover: Original Product Hunt app was built in 5 days
“The first version was really a Ruby on Rails app that Nathan, my buddy, he built it over like a five-day Thanksgiving holiday”
Hoover: Product Hunt email digest has hundreds of thousands of subscribers
“There's the email digest, which hundreds of thousands of people subscribe to.”
Hoover: Investors approached Product Hunt first during early fundraising
“Investors started approaching me before I never actually approached investors in the beginning.”