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Why you should build your product in public(ryanhoover.me)
42 points by rrhoover 12y ago|16 comments
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Love this Andreas! For those unaware, Andreas built a similar extension for Product Hunt: http://www.producthunt.co/posts/product-hunter
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There's No Right Way to Start Up(ryanhoover.me)
1 points by rrhoover 13y ago|0 comments
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by rrhoover 13y ago
I've spoken to several people / new grads entering the startup job market but for many it's difficult to know how to get that first job w/o experience. I haven't read this yet but it's an important, demanded t
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Inspired by @joshjet's tweet: https://twitter.com/joshjet/status/432569805325869057/photo/...
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Never Forget Flappy Bird(teespring.com)
1 points by rrhoover 13y ago|1 comments
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First 30 hours since we got accidentally launched(blog.vibeapp.co)
3 points by rrhoover 13y ago|0 comments
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by rrhoover 13y ago
I shared much less before Product Hunt but most of these discussion happened IRL. Products are watercooler topic and particularly interesting conversation starter for many techy, early adopters. Online, I did and still share cool products
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by rrhoover 13y ago
I can't share much yet but we have something better coming than just a better mobile web design. /end tease :)
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by rrhoover 13y ago
We're currently limiting contributor growth as have a few changes we need to make to the product to scale. If you're interested, please add your info here and we'll send you an email once you're added! :) http:/&#
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Thanks! Hacker News and "Show HN" is responsible for some of the market validation and product design of Product Hunt. While we want to keep the product simple and useful, we do see value in adding more context and "searchabi
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Criticism is usually the best type of feedback. Keep it coming. :)
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Thanks and congrats on your launch as well. I love the design of Headlinr and have been following it since its launch.
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by rrhoover 13y ago
I think he meant PH (aka Product Hunt) :)
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Your comment makes me smile. :) P.S. Pinterest engineer, @connor, is the man.
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Thanks, Joe! I really appreciate your support. Also don't forget @nbashaw. Super happy to be working w/ him on it.
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Great question! Honestly, that's one of my least favorite parts of Product Hunt. I hate turning away people that want to contribute but to keep the contributions of high quality and not overwhelming, we need to curb our contributor g
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Thanks! Which product was it? Want to link to the discussion thread?
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by rrhoover 13y ago
We launched publicly about two months ago after Nathan Bashaw (@nbashaw) and I built it over Thanksgiving break. The backstory was published on FastCo: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3023152/open-company/the-wisdom-of.
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Show HN: Product Hunt – Hacker News for Products(producthunt.co)
360 points by rrhoover 13y ago|101 comments
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Great thoughts, Lyle. As a 2x LSM contributor and 1x mentor, I fully support the program but of course, some ideas cannot be validated/invalidated in a weekend. :)
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by rrhoover 13y ago
It's limited to both comments and submissions at the moment.
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Sorry it's not incredibly clear. We have some changes to make to the product before we open it to a broader audience. In the meantime, we're slowing whitelisting people, giving them access to post and comment.
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Glad you enjoyed it. WRT to monetization, our focus is engagement/retention, then growth, then monetization (maybe). We have some ideas on how we might monetize (hint: http://jonathan-kim.com/2014/starting-fires&
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Thanks for sharing, Ivan! Me and Nathan Bashaw launched Product Hunt publicly last week. AMA!?
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Congrats on the launch, Siqi and team. Beautiful app.
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by rrhoover 13y ago
+1 for the MacGyver reference.
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by rrhoover 13y ago
Today Turntable.fm announced it's pivoting and shutting down its awesome yet struggling social music service. http://blog.turntable.fm/post/67777306411/turntable-live-tur... I wrote this essay of why it was s
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What Killed Turntable.fm?(ryanhoover.me)
6 points by rrhoover 13y ago|2 comments
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by rrhoover 13y ago
I wrote this article before Stories was released. Perhaps it's time for a deconstruction part 2. :)

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