Eventually, Product Hunt will be open to all, but right now we’re focusing on slowly building the community. Still, not everyone can post and comment on Product Hunt - you have to receive an invite from someone else in the community – and understandably, this frustrates some people. We quickly expanded beyond these initial curators by referral from others in the community and since then it’s grown far beyond my relatively tiny network to a global audience, with half the community outside the U.S. When I invited the first few dozen people to contribute to the Product Hunt “MPV” - an email list highlighting new products - I reached out to startup folks I knew and respected. What’s the most-cited critique of Product Hunt? It’s flattering and I sincerely enjoy meeting Product Hunt fans, but we all want to escape work sometimes. I’ve also become more self-aware in public as it’s not uncommon for someone to recognize me and introduce themselves as I’m walking down Market Street or grabbing food with friends at a restaurant. The flood of outreach can make me anxious because I genuinely want to help but I simply can’t without deprioritizing what’s most important - my family, friends, team, and health. As a result, my following has grown and inbox has become unmanageable with people asking for feedback on their product, advice on how to market their product, and other requests. Since the beginning, I’ve been a very public and approachable “face” of the company. My life has changed a lot in the past 12 months, professionally and personally. Recently, we caught up with the company’s founder, Ryan Hoover, to ask how things are going.Īlmost overnight, you became “Internet famous” in tech circles. The company has already raised $7.5 million from some notable investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Slow Ventures, and investor-entrepeneur Alexis Ohanian. Though not quite two years old, Product Hunt has become a highly popular platform for an expanding community of users who vote on and discuss tech tools.
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