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Ryan Hoover: prediction

7 Aug 2022 Lenny's Podcast How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund

“Because Product Hunt on one side, you are potentially attracting people who might be future users and customers, partners and so on.”

— Ryan Hoover

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Ryan Hoover
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prediction
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7 Aug 2022
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Awesome. That was very tactical and helpful. If you were to launch some on Product Hunt yourself and it wasn't hunted by Ryan Hoover, do you think you would get to the top? I don't know. It's funny because we should do some historical analysis on Product Hunt. I'd be curious to know the actual numbers. But it varies all over the board. So some people they ask me, "Hey, I don't know, is Product Hunt, do B2B companies do well there?" And I'm like, "Yeah, probably more B2B companies than B2C companies actually." And so you see seemingly boring companies that tap into something that people find useful or resonates with them can go to the top. And then you also see the weird wacky stuff. The silly apps also hit the top. So I don't know, it really varies. And sometimes it's also driven by almost like the zeitgeist. What do people find interesting right now? What's sparking people's interest? Because Product Hunt on one side, you are potentially attracting people who might be future users and customers, partners and so on. But it's also just a general kind of zeitgeist of the early adopter tech community. What are they interested in? What do they find compelling in general? Got it. Okay. So I have a bunch of questions from Twitter that people wanted to ask you. And so let me ask you a few of those. And they're kind of a little bit all over the place, but we'll see where this goes. Jessica Toy, she's a PM at Angel List, she's actually a friend. We worked together at Airbnb. She asked a great question.…

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