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Ryan shares how he and his partner, Nathan Bashaw, realased the smallest possible version of their product, Product Hunt, in less than a week. You'll also learn his secrets for getting content published on sites like Pando Daily and Fast Company.

Ryan Hoover from Product Hunt chats with us about his new service, building an MVP, and growing a community.

Ben and Ryan Hoover, co-creator of Product Hunt, talk revenue models, the value of blogging, diversification of skills, and tiny steps towards major change.

Want to learn about the coolest start-ups? Discover an awesome app and eager to tell the world? Product Hunt’s got you covered as the hot new place to find and share products and companies. Jason sits down with Ryan Hoover, PH’s Founder (and die-hard TWIST fan!) to chat about what’s buzzing in tech, the key […] The post Product Hunt founder on his cool new site & what’s hot in tech appeared first on This Week In Startups.

This week’s guest is Ryan Hoover. We’ve been online friends for a few years now. Back in 2013, Ryan invited me to join a new site he’d created called ProductHunt.com. In the last 3 weeks, it’s exploded. He was interviewed on Fox...

In this interview, Ryan Hoover reveals the realities of building a company, raising capital and why most startups don’t need it. He also explain how he built a thriving community and how they go about making product decisions.

Today we’ve got a long-time Mixergy fan who’s here to talk about how he built a community, a community I’m proud to be a part of and so many other people in the startup world are part of. He created a site that features a list of new products that are voted on by the startup and tech community. Three million referrals-that’s how many they’ve sent out per month from the site. That means people like me are going to their site, finding new products and not just looking at them and gawking and criticizing, but clicking over to see those products. That’s how active that community is. His name is Ryan Hoover. He is the founder of Product Hunt, which surfaces the best new products every day. Ryan Hoover is the Founder of Product Hunt which surfaces the best new products every day.

It’s a “Young Guns” News Roundtable, with dream team Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt & Danielle Morrill, CEO & Cofounder of Mattermark. With Jason, the three take on the best stories of late, including the coolest new content platforms (hello, Snapchat Discover), wish lists for Google now that Glass is gone, predictions for Oculus’s […] The post News Roundtable: Product Hunt & Mattermark founders on what’s cool in content, Oculus rising, Glassless Google, Twitter trolling & totally crushing it appeared first on This Week In Startups.

Ryan Hoover really doesn't need an introduction here on the Daily Hunt. In this episode I have a candid conversation with Ryan about what it's like to be the CEO of Product Hunt, some of the challenges he faces and what is coming soon from his team. We even get to hear what Ryan's "favorite" recent product is, and he shares what scares him the most about the future of technology. Listen now and then subscribe for new episodes.

For episode 66 we caught up with Ryan Hoover, the founder of Product Hunt. We get insights into PH's latest podcasting branch, building in public, what it's like designing and building Product Hunt, and some of the biggest mistakes Ryan sees people making.

Ryan Hoover is the founder of Product Hunt, a website and online community that has been described as Reddit for tech products. The site recently added a section dedicated to podcasts, and Ryan tells Adam what exactly Product Hunt is, how it got...

Ryan Hoover is the Founder and CEO @ ProductHunt, winner of TechCrunch "Best New Startup 2014". ProductHunt is a community of people sharing, upvoting, and geeking out about new technology products, games, and books. Before Product Hunt, Ryan was an EIR at Tradecraft and Director of Product at PlayHaven. As a writer, Ryan has contributed to Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal and written many essays, including features for TechCrunch, Forbes, Pando, Fast Company, and The Next Web. He writes about startup trends, product designs, and production growth on his blog, ryanhoover.me. I would like to thank Mattermark for providing all the data and analysis for this interview and you can check them out here! CLICK TO PLAY In Today's Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How did ProductHunt get started and what was the a-ha moment for Ryan in the founding of ProductHunt? 2.) PH has gone from a newsletter to friends to a a16z backed startup with employees around the globe. What have been the drivers of PH's success? 3.) PH harness the crowd for feedback on everything from designs to features. Why does Ryan prefer this open sourced feedback approach? What are the benefits? What would Ryan suggest to founders looking to adopt a similar feedback style? 4.) Question from Matt Hartman at Betaworks: Considering Ryan's work with Nir Eyal on Hooked, are there elements of Hooked that Ryan baked into the infrastructure of PH and what were they? 5.) How has Ryan created such a close and intimate relationship with his audience? What are the tools and strategies that Ryan uses to build that community? What advice does Ryan give for people looking to network and make a community around them? 6.) Where does Ryan see PH in 5 years time? What is his vision for the PH platform? How does a platform such as ProductHunt plan to monetise?   Items Mentioned In Today's Episode: Ryan's Fave Book: The Art of Game Design: A Book Of Lenses Ryan's Fave Podcasts: TWIST by Jason Calacanis, Startup: Gimlet Media, Mystery Show: Gimlet Media As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Ryan on Twitter here! If you would like to see a more colourful side to Harry with many a mojito session, you can follow him on Instagram here!