Product Hunt
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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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Product Hunt’s Ryan Hoover Isn’t Afraid To Show You What’s Next
Ryan Hoover is becoming the iconic modern founder. Big on transparency. Quick to admit mistakes. And always trying to galvanize the Product Hunt community. So rather than wait for its upcoming launch, today Hoover previewed Product Hunt‘s next iOS build by livestreaming its developer’s work in progress via Meerkat. The new mobile version of community product review site Product… Read More
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The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards Winners
For the 8th Annual Crunchies Awards, we asked the Internet community to vote for the most influential startups, innovations and tech figures of the year. Read More
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Product Hunt Wins Best New Startup Of 2014
Product Hunt, the online community where members submit and vote up the best new tech products, has been taking the industry by storm as founders, investors, early adopters and other tech enthusiasts now check the site on a daily basis. Today, the company also has the honor of winning the Crunchie award for “best new startup,” beating out runner-up Shyp to take home the trophy. Read More
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Product Hunt Adds Direct Messaging To Founders
There are various ways to get a contact for the stories we write here, but it’s not always easy. The reasons can vary from the wrong contact info listed on a site to simply no contact info listed anywhere on the web. Product Hunt, the product aggregation site, is hoping to make it a bit easier to contact founders and makers of listed products with the roll out of a new direct… Read More
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Product Hunt Gets Social With Twitter-Like User Profiles, Following Features And Notifications
Product Hunt, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed aggregation site currently focused on surfacing new tech products and startups, is now turning itself into something of a social network this morning with the launch of redesigned user profiles, following features and notifications. The new profiles offer a variety of information about the poster, including a bio, Twitter handle, and tabs for… Read More
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Crunch Network
How Product Hunt Hopes To Avoid The Pitfalls That Wounded Quora And Buried Digg
When Ashwinn Krishnaswamy and two of his buddies were living with their parents and working out of a basement in the suburbs of Philadelphia, they had only their development skills, a solid sense of product design, and a simple idea in their heads. The way friends and peers discuss articles and web pages, they figured, is broken. Despite the rise of Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest, email… Read More
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Product Psychology Explains How To Get Users Hooked On Products Designed Around Habit And Context
Today, a group of product-focused creators — “Hooked” author Nir Eyal, Product Hunt’s Ryan Hoover, and Greylock Partners’s Josh Elman, among others — are hoping to follow up on that newsletter’s success with the launch of Product Psychology, a weekly course on the psychology of user behavior. Read More
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Childish Gambino Name-Drops A Bunch Of Techies In His New Mixtape
Rapper Childish Gambino (also known as Donald Glover, former cast member of cult sitcom “Community”) just dropped an 11-song mixtape, his first big release since last year’s hit album “Because The Internet.” That wouldn’t generally be something we write about, but at the end of tape Glover name-drops seven members of the tech community. Read More
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