Point attracted up to 4,000 users in a 48-hour period after being featured on the site, and Krishnaswamy and his friends were able to find a mobile app developer. “We didn’t have friends who could make introductions to us.”īut in August, one of his investors, who is based in Detroit, pitched Point to Product Hunt, and the site was one of the day’s biggest hits. “We weren’t too involved in the tech space,” he said. That’s what happened to Ashwinn Krishnaswamy, who was working on Point with friends in Audubon, Pennsylvania, 35 miles outside of Philadelphia. Product Hunt now “is the place they come to present. “If your product is cool, you don’t have to be in San Francisco,” he said. While there is a steady flow of products coming from the San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles regions, up to 45 percent of submissions are coming from outside the country, said Erik Torenberg, a member of Product Hunt’s founding team. Product Hunt’s major achievement has been opening up Silicon Valley’s closed network a bit more to outsiders. Two handy products I found are Unsubscriber for Gmail, for unsubscribing to all the email lists I’m on, and Point, a Chrome extension that allows one to send someone a link to an article with comments already embedded in the margins. On Product Hunt, the useful is mixed together with the frivolous. The community and Product Hunt staff also curate “collections,” groups of similar kinds of applications or technologies around a theme such as parenting, running, reading and many more. Many days include several hundred new offerings, and the products’ creators frequently jump into the discussion around his or her invention.Īt the end of the day, the community’s votes determine the day’s top products, which Product Hunt publishes in an email newsletter before 8 a.m. ![]() Anyone on Product Hunt can “upvote” products a la Reddit, which will send them higher on each day’s list. Here’s how it works: Anyone can post a product to be reviewed and Product Hunt has a group of entrepreneurs and product enthusiasts that curate the top choices. New technology by big companies like Google are also on the site. It has become a place to drop in on industry insider conversations on product design or marketing. Since its inception, nearly 14,000 products have been featured on the Product Hunt homepage.īut if it was all laughs, Product Hunt wouldn’t grow as it has. There are now Product Hunt meetups worldwide, as far away as Istanbul and Singapore. ![]() Product Hunt is the brainchild of Ryan Hoover, who acts as the cheerleader for entrepreneurial creativity, a sort of Allen Ginsberg to the startup generation.Ī little more than a year old, Product Hunt recently secured $6.1 million from Andreessen Horowitz - the San Francisco company’s biggest investment so far - and this month was honored as the best new startup of 2014 at The Crunchies, the tech industry’s Oscars. It’s something bigger - a window into the feverish creative activity happening every day in tech. It is not a review site or a place to find the top 10 apps for your iPhone. These products and thousands of others can be found on Product Hunt, an online site that acts as a hub for new apps, websites and other creations. Or Borro, an online lending platform that uses luxury cars, antiques and jewelry as collateral.Īnd then there is the Xoo, a designer belt that charges your phone battery while keeping your pants up. Or Mindie, for making your own seven-second music videos. Maybe you have use for Heal, a mobile app that connects people with doctors who make house calls, sort of an Uber for health care.
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