Product Hunt

“More than half the product and community is actually outside the U S”

“If I didn't have, you know, this first few hundred people willing to sign up that I had built that audience for over several years, I don't think Product Hunt would exist today.”

“So built this email list, sent it out, got a few hundred subscribers initially, and it took me 20 minutes to set up.”

“Like Casey Neistat and his new app, they used it to start capturing interest for beam panels or new app that's coming out.”

“The number of upvotes you get on product hunt honestly doesn't mean whether they're gonna be successful or not.”

“Discovering the way you consume podcasts is wildly different than you discover an app or a product. It's also very frequent. Like there's a new podcast every week or more than that. So like the dynamics didn't really work. With just shoving it into the product…”

“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…”

“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.”

“If you can demonstrate data like that, it's hard to argue. It's hard to say that, oh, actually, no, this isn't useful. If you're demonstrating that people are using your product, then that's ultimate proof.”

“We actually kind of quietly killed podcasts.”

“So historically we've never really charged for anything. Outside of long, long time ago, once upon a time we did post for charge people for job postings, but then we stopped that to focus entirely on building the community and the audience. Now we're shifting …”

“I think for whatever reason, Paris is very design centric in general. So you'll see a lot of design related or like beautiful looking products coming from Paris or France in general.”

“Just getting good at engaging with your community on HN and Product Hunt is really undervalued.”

“We raised a million before, like, going into YC before demo day, when we were targeting, like, 400 K, but we got great people around us, and then fast forward through demo day Marc Andreessen reached out kind of in the middle, and he'd been following it, and w…”

“It started off as a side project and it was right between startups. I was leaving in another one and kind of tinkering and interviewing at other startups. Started product time. It started off as an email list. Got some traction there. That then turned into a w…”

“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.”

“And so we did job ads and made like 4000 dollars a month.”

“A few different investors and people suggested, Hey, you should start a product hunt fund. You should build a fund on top of product hunt, invest in, use the data in the community and everything to source and find really early stage opportunities. And I was pr…”

“When you do raise a lot of money and you feel like you have infinite runway you should treat it like you don't. And truthfully, there's some things that, that I prioritized on the team because I wanted it Myself, like some redesign work that we did, which rede…”

“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.”

“I was a little bit naive, I think, in thinking that we could quickly replicate communities in these different verticals and the nature of even just game discovery is quite different than product and tech discovery.”

“And when you put your frame of mind of like a side project, first you start to settle. Most people start to settle in, well, what would I want to build or what would I, what could I use? And it's just a lot better way to start. I think personally.”

“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.”

“And so we're, we hit profitability last year.”

“I remember when we implemented Algolia in Product Hunt, you know, Ryan, the founder, that was before Product Hunt became huge, and he didn't have, like, any resource to implement search himself, and so we remembered the Stripe story. We did it. Like, he gave u…”