Adds live video chat
Product Hunt, in collaboration with Blab, adds live video chats to its AMA section Viewers can interact with those on video either by writing in comments, or by joining via video themselves. The streams can be embedded online and archived
Product Hunt has always been about authentic conversations between makers and the community. LIVE video chats extend this concept even further, giving participants an opportunity to ‘sit in the room’ with guests to ask questions and hear their unfiltered answers.
Product Hunt Radio 27
Hoover talks with Ricketts, the editor of First Round Review and Hayes, a First Round Capital partner, about products that kids use, and new products including the Android messaging app Snowball, search and archiving app Slack, the teacher/student/parent communication app Remind, and Rings wearables for cellphones.
https://soundcloud.com/product-hunt/product-hunt-radio-episode-27-w-camille-ricketts-and-rob-hayes
TWiST – Tinder etiquette
Calacanis, Sarver, and Hoover talk on This Week In Startups about etiquette on the dating app. Calacanis:
Are you on the Tinder with all those other kids?
Hoover:
I had my first Tinder date, like, a month ago
Calacanis:
You really went on a Tinder date. What’s that like?
Hoover:
It was normal. She was fine.
This Week In Startups
Hoover talks with Sarver and Calacanis about on-demand streaming, and mobile apps that are being launched, including one for ordering medical marijuana.
Bloomberg TV interview
Hoover talks with Liu and Sculley about why teenagers like Product Hunt:
Teenagers are always looking for the next thing.
On whether the apps on the site will make good companies:
It’s not our job to make sure these turn into companies. Most of them should not be companies. They’re not companies but hopefully they can inspire somebody to take them and use them in their own companies or products.
Launches ProductPsychology
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Ryan talks with Chen, an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and Eyal, a blogger and the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. They discuss the Ethan app that allows users to chat with Gliechtenstein, habit-forming products, and the pet products like BarkShop, BarkBox, and BarkCam.
https://soundcloud.com/product-hunt/product-hunt-radio-episode-26-w-andrew-chen-and-nir-eyal
ProductHunt Community NYC interview
Hoover does an ask-me-anything style interview with the NYC Product Hunt community. On what the next three months looks like for Product Hunt:
We’re really focusing on recruiting and building out the team and the existing product, and focusing on our current community and audience
Mashable interview
Hoover talks about the growth of Product Hunt and how people now recognize him in public:
It’s been happening more than I would expect lately. It makes me feel slightly more self-conscious and aware of what I’m doing.
Confirms $6.1m Series A
Product Hunt confirms the round led by Andreessen Horowitz and including A16Z and Ohanian. Hoover says he’s been in touch with Ohanian since before he joined Y Combinator:
Garry Tan introduced me [to Ohanian] and we Skyped for an hour. He immediately got what we were building and provided me with advice on how he built the community in the early days of Reddit
Makeshift interview
Hoover talks about why he would rather take the risk of working at a startup:
I can’t see myself working at a larger company. I enjoy the absurdity of startups — the (almost irrational) hope of directly impacting a big change in peoples’ lives. I’d much rather have “high-high’s” and “low-low’s” than the “medium-medium’s” of big businesses. Ultimately my goal is to learn while building something I’m passionate about and startups are the best place for me to do that.
Product Hunt Radio 25
0 CommentsHoover talks with teenage product creators Ryan Orbuch of Finish, Gewn Brinsmead from Appmesh, and Ari Weinstein from DeskConnect and Workflow about productivity tools, photo apps, and teenage tech culture. Orbuch on why people don’t pay for apps:
There’s this analogy that people will pay $5 for a cup of coffee without thinking about it, but there isn’t a shelf of free coffee next to it that’s just about as good.
https://soundcloud.com/product-hunt/product-hunt-radio-episode-25-w-ryan-orbuch-gwen-brinsmead-ari-weinstein
Advice for Y Combinator applicants
0 CommentsHoover gives three pieces of advice to a Y Combinator hopeful who wrote to him:
– Be honest and real. The partners will know if you’re bullshitting.
– Know your metrics. Be able to describe which ones are most important and why.
– Describe how your startup can become a billion dollar business, but don’t try to fit a square peg in a round hole. Think big and be pragmatic.
Product Hunt Radio 24
0 CommentsHoover talks with John and Sam Shahidi, co-creators of the Shots photo app, online bullying, music discovery, and how Shots shares what users are doing via photos and selfies.
https://soundcloud.com/product-hunt/product-hunt-radio-episode-24-w-john-and-sammy-shahidi
Product Hunt Radio 23
Hoover talks to Bahat and Strickland of Bloomberg Beta, the Bloomberg-backed venture fund about how the fund works, and the future of Product Hunt. Bahat:
Whatever we don’t like that we see others doing in the industry, we try to do the opposite of…so we open-sourced our full operating manual
https://soundcloud.com/product-hunt/product-hunt-radio-episode-23-w-roy-bahat-dan-strickland
Product Hunt Radio 22
Hoover talks with Circa co-founder and CEO Galligan and Block, AOL’s VP for Product, about the iPhone 6, Apple Pay, the Apple Watch, and how TechCrunch had Hoover speak right after the Apple product announcements. Galligan:
That was kind of a dick move.
https://soundcloud.com/product-hunt/product-hunt-radio-episode-22-w-matt-galligan-ryan-block
Disrupt Interview
Hoover talks about what Product Hunt is and what the future holds for the site.
At its core it’s a very simple product and within it we’ve created this community of people who are very passionate about products.
Product Hunt Radio 23
0 CommentsHoover talks with Femgineer founder Poornima Vijayashanker and Julia Grace, head of engineering at Tindie, about tools to communicate with remote teams, email and products to fight digital distractions. They discuss theScreenhero collaborative screen sharing and chat app, software building product Pivotal Tracker and the Asana app that enables teamwork without email.
https://soundcloud.com/product-hunt/product-hunt-radio-episode-21-w-poornima-vijayashanker-julia-grace
Ryan Hoover AMA
Hoover answers questions on the logo, joining Y Combinator, and how it selects products.
We encourage people to share their product on PH as this sparks discussion and frankly drives more traffic to the site; however, the quality of products (which I know, is subjective) is incredibly important. If people are disinterested in the products featured on PH, nothing else matters.
Product Hunt Radio 20
0 CommentsHoover talks with Notation Capital partner Nick Chirls, Red Swan Ventures partner Will Peng, Teehan & Lax partner Jon Lax, and Electric Objects founder Jake Levine. They discuss hardware startups, artwork, and crimefighting robots.
https://soundcloud.com/product-hunt/product-hunt-radio-episode-20-w-nick-chirls-will-peng-jon-lax-jake-levine