Ryan Hoover
24 statements across 3 episodes · 9 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 4, 2017 by Ryan Hoover · said 6 times in 4 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Oct 4, 2017 positive
Oct 4, 2017
Oct 4, 2017 positive
Hoover: Email MVPs are easier to iterate than software built in code
“It's a very simple way to MVP something and see if people actually open it and click on it. It's also very malleable. So every single morning or every day when you send that email, you can change the copy. You can try different things. Whereas when you put som…”
Oct 4, 2017 positive
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…”
Oct 4, 2017 positive
Oct 4, 2017 positive
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.”
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Oct 4, 2017 negative
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Feb 15, 2019 positive
Hoover: Andreessen Horowitz preemptively led Product Hunt's Series A during YC
“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…”
Feb 15, 2019 neutral
Hoover: Product Hunt began as an unincorporated email list side project
“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…”
Feb 15, 2019 positive
Observing a startup ship rapidly for two weeks drives Hoover's investment decisions
“Progress is like everything, and just, even if it's, it doesn't have to be, you know, 50% month over month growth, but I've invested in companies after following them for even just two or three weeks have given me more confidence based on what they're shipping…”
Feb 15, 2019 neutral
Feb 15, 2019 negative
Hoover rejected early investor pressure to build a Product Hunt VC fund
“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…”
Feb 15, 2019 negative
Hoover: Product Redesigns Are Often a Trap That Won't Move Metrics
“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…”
Feb 15, 2019 negative
Hoover: Tech discovery communities cannot be easily replicated across other verticals
“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.”
Feb 15, 2019
Hoover: Approaching ideas as side projects is far better than overthinking business models
“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.”
Feb 15, 2019 bullish
Feb 15, 2019 positive
Hoover: Pumping your chest before pitching boosts confidence and calms nerves
“Someone gave me this advice actually during YC is before you do anything like that, before you do a pitch, pump your chest physically. It might've been Kevin Hale that said this. Yeah, I could be wrong. So sorry, Kevin, if I'm putting words in your mouth, but …”
May 30, 2024
Dessaigne: Algolia founders manually coded Product Hunt's first search integration
“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…”