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The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator Nov 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:59 Mike Mignano But at the time, uh, if you remember, like everything that was launching on Product Hunt or the App Store around the time, it was all social networks.

Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator Nov 20, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:19 Aaron Epstein Yeah, join our Discord, check out GitHub, Back by YC, Product of the Day, Start Free, Documentation, Sign Up button up here.

Startup Experts Discuss Doing Things That Don't Scale · Y Combinator May 30, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 11:08 Nicolas Dessaigne 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. 3 times in the scene

B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 15, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:42 Tom Blomfield We often see, and I've seen in, even in the last two or three weeks, founders who've had these great launches and they've launched on Hacker News, on Product Hunt, and they've had hundreds of people come and use their service day after…

How Startup Fundraising Works | Startup School · Y Combinator Mar 29, 2023 · 1 mention

How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School · Y Combinator Dec 29, 2022 · 1 mention

Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator Feb 15, 2019 · 46 mentions

  • ▶ 0:09 Ryan Hoover So started a company, uh, five years ago almost, or actually just over five years ago, called Product Hunt. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:00 Dalton Caldwell Yeah, so maybe to start with, like, because I remember it so well, um, from being there, walk me through from the formation of Product Hunt into applying to YC, into getting into that interview that 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:09 Craig Cannon Because that was a little bit after product time and it's very similar and it's within this exact niche. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:50 Dalton Caldwell So, so anyway, I just, like, I remember that too, when you were, everyone was like, so excited about Product Hunt, and everyone wanted to work with you, and they put tons of work into it.
  • ▶ 16:55 Ryan Hoover It's, it's funny, product, people think that most of product hunt is actually consumer as well. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 20:38 Ryan Hoover Um, yeah, Product Hunt is, is like, Product Hunt is me in many ways, for better or worse, and it's, it's just what I love.
  • ▶ 24:20 Ryan Hoover We, we focused on that last year and now we're profitable. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:41 Ryan Hoover And the, the learning though, there's a, I was a little bit naive, I think, in thinking that we could quickly replicate communities in these different verticals and the, the nature of even just game discovery is quite different than… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:02 Craig Cannon It's not called product hunt anymore. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 35:41 Ryan Hoover How do we get more people using product hunt? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:15 Craig Cannon So there are a bunch of questions, basically people asking for advice on like what makes a successful product on product hunt. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:15 Craig Cannon Um, you know, I'm just kind of connecting the dots now, but like, both of you guys basically like review products all year round, and I'm curious, like, how much time do you actually spend on Product Hunt in like, in your YC application… 3 times in the scene

Andrew Kortina of Venmo and Fin on Technological Determinism and Work's Relationship to Dignity · Y Combinator Nov 20, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:38 Craig Cannon And so, there are many questions around, will Finn, so Ryan Hoover from Product Hunt asks, when, if ever, will Finn task completion be 100% AI driven?

Brian Donohue on Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition · Y Combinator Nov 14, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:37 Craig Cannon Uh, Ryan Hoover, uh, from Product Hunt, he asks, I'm curious how he and the team, a very small team, balance simplicity with, uh, new feature development and product expansion.

PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator Sep 19, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:10 Craig Cannon So, both Hacker News and Product Hunt were kind of, like, built out from, from YC entities, but just getting good at engaging with your community on HN and Product Hunt is really undervalued. 2 times in the scene

Michael Seibel - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator Mar 7, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:07 Michael Seibel You can read about them on the blog, you can read about them on Product Hunt, on TechCrunch, on Hacker News.

Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator Oct 4, 2017 · 35 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 Craig Cannon All right, so maybe we could start with this question from Stuart Powell, and his question is, what's your advice for non-technical founders, as you are a non-technical founder and a solo founder or a co-founder of Product Hunt? 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:51 Ryan Hoover Um, Product Hunt was an email list in the beginning.
  • ▶ 3:25 Ryan Hoover So a lot of these things we were actually doing at Product Hunt for several years through, you know, various tools like MailChimp, using Typeform, um, just basically sending out, um, you know, screenshots and, and using actually Envision… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:36 Craig Cannon Um, is there a business model in product hunt? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 11:41 Craig Cannon Like obviously you guys have a podcast section. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:00 Craig Cannon Because there's like, there's this period of, I guess you, Product Hunt wasn't around all that long before you did YC, right?
  • ▶ 20:25 Ryan Hoover So it, it started probably in some ways started years before product hadn't started in some, some ways. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 23:58 Craig Cannon I mean, I love getting into the comments like on HN product on all that stuff.
  • ▶ 27:37 Ryan Hoover And, uh, those are the types of products I get really excited about because it's a lot of about what product is about is really like seeing what could be made in the future, what might change the world, or at least maybe a tiny part of… 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:25 Ryan Hoover Um, like what I tell people is like the number of upvotes you get on product hunt honestly doesn't mean whether they're gonna be successful or not. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:21 Ryan Hoover Like our hope with product and some things we're exploring is how do we, there's certain people, weirdos like me who love to consume the fire hose.
  • ▶ 34:23 Craig Cannon Akshar Bonu asked, uh, what is the most counterintuitive thing you learned building product on and then watching it grow and be used? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 36:33 Ryan Hoover You know, early on, I think the first like months of Product Hunt, some of our investors actually were like, Ryan, you guys should start a Product Hunt syndicate or fund of some sort. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:22 Ryan Hoover That's where product hunt started.

Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers · Y Combinator Sep 25, 2017 · 4 mentions

The Challenges a Repeat Founder Faces - Tikhon Bernstam · Y Combinator Sep 8, 2017 · 1 mention

Office Hours with Kat Manalac · Y Combinator Feb 15, 2017 · 2 mentions

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