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Building a Site in 24 Hours and Growing It to +$2M/Year

29 points by nicoserdeir 8y ago

petraeus 8y ago
Honestly looks like a site that was made in 12 hrs, and its just a bunch of random cheap chinese made junk. There is nothing compelling about this brand or the products listed. Browsed the site for about 10mins and cant remember one thing that stood out.
rpowers 8y ago
Props to the founder, but what is this article supposed to achieve? Nothing stood out about the process this app/company took. The website seems filled with ads and similar articles.
- gus_massa 8y ago
  [I agree.] From the article: > The initial product looked nothing like today’s version. So, the 24 hours part is totally irrelevant. I can build a prototype in 1 hour (just register the a domain and upload an index.html page) and then use the rest of the time to get a better version.
  - evanvar 8y ago
    Thanks for your comment, we've actually launched the entire V1 not just an index page but it was definitely due to the fact that we were very familiar with web development. Hope that helps :-)
coolspot 8y ago
> Evan is the founder of Gadget Flow, the number one platform to discover the best products on the market. Are they bigger than the Product Hunt? I doubt so.
- chrisco255 8y ago
  Well the funny thing about "number one" is that it can be defined in so many ways. It's a good marketing tack.
  - chairmankaga 8y ago
    In Japan, seemingly everyone doing commercials is "number one", by that same logic.
  - WalterGR 8y ago
    Yeah, I always chuckle when I see that. "Leading" is another good one. https://www.google.com/search?q="we+are+the+leading" https://www.google.com/search?q="we+are+the+leading" https://www.google.com/search?q="leading+provider" https://www.google.com/search?q="leading+provider" https://www.google.com/search?q="leading+source+for" https://www.google.com/search?q="leading+source+for" Every press release: "Foo Corp., the leading noun-er of noun, announced today..." Googling site:prnewswire.com "the leading" - https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aprnewswire.com+"the+leading" https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aprnewswire.com+"the+l... - "About 98,000 results".
- evanvar 8y ago
  Great point, happy to clarify. We are curating products in a form of a marketplace, we are not a blog or a social media website and that puts us into a unique position. Product Hunt has an open community that contributes content while we curate everything we publish as a brand.

29 points by nicoserdeir 8y ago

Honestly looks like a site that was made in 12 hrs, and its just a bunch of random cheap chinese made junk. There is nothing compelling about this brand or the products listed. Browsed the site for about 10mins and cant remember one thing that stood out.

rpowers 8y ago

Props to the founder, but what is this article supposed to achieve? Nothing stood out about the process this app/company took. The website seems filled with ads and similar articles.

gus_massa 8y ago
[I agree.] From the article: > The initial product looked nothing like today’s version. So, the 24 hours part is totally irrelevant. I can build a prototype in 1 hour (just register the a domain and upload an index.html page) and then use the rest of the time to get a better version.
- evanvar 8y ago
  Thanks for your comment, we've actually launched the entire V1 not just an index page but it was definitely due to the fact that we were very familiar with web development. Hope that helps :-)

coolspot 8y ago

> Evan is the founder of Gadget Flow, the number one platform to discover the best products on the market. Are they bigger than the Product Hunt? I doubt so.

chrisco255 8y ago
Well the funny thing about "number one" is that it can be defined in so many ways. It's a good marketing tack.
- chairmankaga 8y ago
  In Japan, seemingly everyone doing commercials is "number one", by that same logic.
- WalterGR 8y ago
  Yeah, I always chuckle when I see that. "Leading" is another good one. https://www.google.com/search?q="we+are+the+leading" https://www.google.com/search?q="we+are+the+leading" https://www.google.com/search?q="leading+provider" https://www.google.com/search?q="leading+provider" https://www.google.com/search?q="leading+source+for" https://www.google.com/search?q="leading+source+for" Every press release: "Foo Corp., the leading noun-er of noun, announced today..." Googling site:prnewswire.com "the leading" - https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aprnewswire.com+"the+leading" https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aprnewswire.com+"the+l... - "About 98,000 results".
evanvar 8y ago
Great point, happy to clarify. We are curating products in a form of a marketplace, we are not a blog or a social media website and that puts us into a unique position. Product Hunt has an open community that contributes content while we curate everything we publish as a brand.