Product Hunt
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Product Hunt wants to help you ship your product with its new product Ship
Product Hunt is hoping to make it easier for those who create products to market those products as well. Today, the platform where people vote up or down on startup products is launching a suite of tools for creators to generate demand for the products they make with a new suite of tools called Ship. There’s already a lot of tools out there to help founders and creators market on the… Read More
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Ryan Hoover’s $3M Angel Fund is going by the name Weekend Fund
An SEC filing turned up this morning showing that Product Hunt’s Ryan Hoover is investing out of a $3 million AngelList Angel Fund going by the name Weekend Fund. We previously reported that Hoover was a deal lead through the Angel Funds product — but now we know the size and name of the vehicle. Read More
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Huddle is a mental health app that aims to be a safe space to share with peers
Dan Blackman’s father was a well-known man in the community of his small Pennsylvania town. He was a lawyer, ran a good business and everyone liked him and liked drinking with him. His dad died a few years ago from a combination of liver and lung cancer. His dad was what they call a functioning alcoholic. “It wasn’t until I started talking to my family a bit more that I… Read More
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Naval Ravikant hints at future plans for Product Hunt and adding secondary trading to AngelList
Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s Disrupt event in New York, we sat down with AngelList cofounder and CEO Naval Ravikant to talk primarily about the platform’s new Angel Funds product, wherein a select number of proven “angel-operators” is being provided capital from AngelList and outside VCs to invest in a basket of startups. (We wrote about that new program… Read More
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Crunch Report | Tesla Now Valued More Than Ford
Redfoo, formerly from LMFAO, joins us on the show to talk tech, Product Hunt launches Ask Product Hunt, Tesla is now worth more than Ford and Apple is dumping Imagination Technologies because they no longer wish to use their IP. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Product Hunt will now let you ask the community for product recommendations
While Product Hunt has always been a great place to discover new services and products, it’s not necessarily the best place to find a product that you need right now. For example, let’s say this morning I’m behind on work and all I’m concerned with is finding a great to-do list app. While I’m sure there are some great options within Product Hunt’s… Read More
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FundersClub experiments with the full-service online VC model at scale
Slowly disproving stereotypes, the online VC has established itself as a viable tool for tech finance. But while the model has made money for investors, the industry still faces perceptions of selling money for money’s sake, without much care for the nuanced entrepreneur-investor relationship. FundersClub, one of the earliest and most active online funds, is building out its own… Read More
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Crunch Report | ACLU Enrolls in Y Combinator
We are joined by the CEO of Product Hunt, which was just acquired by AngelList, the ACLU enrolls in Y Combinator, Daimler builds a self-driving car for Uber and top poker players lose to an AI developed by Carnegie Mellon. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Amazon launches a dedicated shop for items featured on Product Hunt
Amazon has teamed up with Product Hunt — the San Francisco-based startup that helps curate and surface the hottest new apps, websites, gadgets, tech creations and more — by offering a collection of products for purchase that have previously trended on Product Hunt’s website. This new collection, called “Featured on Product Hunt,” is available as a part of… Read More
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Product Hunt is ready to rake in revenue with direct sales
It’s a common revenue generation model, but one that seems to have taken some time for other tech platforms reliant on the community to develop. The 10-year-old Twitter and 5-year-old Snapchat are still experimenting with monetization strategies and Pinterest, going on seven years, only adopted a similar sales model to Product Hunt’s with Buyable Pins last summer. Founder Ryan… Read More
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Product Hunt gets a desktop app for Mac
Everything seems to be going mobile these days, but the Product Hunt community actually uses their desktops more for finding and upvoting products they find online says founder Ryan Hoover. So to keep hunters happy, the Product Hunt team introduced a new Mac desktop app today. The desktop version is pretty close to the online and mobile apps, but with a few tweaks for desktop-friendliness. The… Read More
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Bullish: Curation and filter bubbles with Product Hunt’s Ryan Hoover
After years of tweeting back and forth with Product Hunt Founder Ryan Hoover, I finally met him IRL when he came in to talk about curation with me for Bullish. “In a world where we’re having so much being created, whether it’s apps, chrome extensions even music, books, podcasts, etc. there’s a greater need for curation,” Hoover told me. Meanwhile, everyone has… Read More
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Product Hunt Redesigns The Homepage To Aid Discovery Beyond Tech
It’s been two years since the launch of Product Hunt as a listicle for discovering tech products. Today the site gets a brand new design to reflect the addition of games, podcasts, books, collections and live categories since that time. Product Hunt added the games category earlier this year and has since expanded to up-voted lists for books, podcasts and the live section – a… Read More
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Product Hunt Adds Podcast Discovery To Its Fleet Of Channels
Product Hunt is continuing its expansion of channels, this time with podcasts. But it’s not about the actual podcast show so much as certain episodes of those shows that will be added to the list for upvoting. “Most other podcast discovery services focus on show discovery, not necessarily episodes,” Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover told TechCrunch. “Sometimes there… Read More
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Product Hunt Takes AMAs A Step Further With The Launch Of LIVE
Product Hunt, the online community where members upvote products, games and books they like, is helping that community get more of a heads up on “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) events today with the introduction of LIVE – a scheduled AMA with different product makers, founders, celebrities, authors and others. The platform often invites makers of products to come to the site and… Read More
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Product Hunt’s Starting Line
The first happy hour the aggregation platform held had a line down the street and around the corner. This time I breezed right through the doors at 620 Jones, a full hour after the party started. The party was held to celebrate the launch of Product Hunt’s gaming vertical. Founder Ryan Hoover had pixelated the kitten wearing Google Glass logo and placed old-school arcade games throughout… Read More
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Product Hunt Levels Up With A Gaming Category
Product Hunt, the platform for upvoting the top tech products, is making its first expansion outside of tech into gaming and has pulled in game publication Polygon co-founder Russ Frushtick to head up the new category. The Product Hunt Games section will look similar to the main list of the top tech products of the day on Product Hunt, but filled with new gaming products instead. The… Read More
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Product Hunt Moves Beyond Tech With The Launch Of Snoop Dogg’s New “Bush”Album
Product Hunt, the product aggregation site known for putting new tech products to a vote went off its regular tech product vertical today with the launch of Snoop’s new “Bush” album and a coinciding AMA with the rapper. Snoop spent several hours chatting with fans about everything from buying “house shoes” with bitcoin and the best way to support artists to how… Read More
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Product Hunt Brings Its Popular New Product Finder To Your Chrome Browser
Product Hunt, the popular and growing community focused on finding the best new products, has today rolled out an improved version of its Chrome extension, which allows you to hunt, interact with and search for new products right from your web browser. The update offers a different way to interact with Product Hunt’s service, allowing you to both passively keep track of products through… Read More
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