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How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund

7 Aug 2022 19 published claims 2 attributable people
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Ryan HooverLenny Rachitsky

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evaluation 6uncertainty 4belief 3commitment 2preference 2prediction 1recommendation 1

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01 / evaluation

Well, when based on our data, about a third of people will consider switching to another company after just one bad experience during onboarding. So if your CSV importer doesn't work right, which is super common considering customer files are chocked full of unexpected data and formatting, they'll leave.

“Well, when based on our data, about a third of people will consider switching to another company after just one bad experience during onboarding. So if your CSV importer doesn't work right, which is super common considering customer files are chocked full of unexpected data and formatting, they'll leave.”
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Lenny's Podcast

02 / uncertainty

I don't know how to articulate that feeling, but that flutter in your stomach that you wake up with in the morning of just anxiety and stress and worry.

“I don't know how to articulate that feeling, but that flutter in your stomach that you wake up with in the morning of just anxiety and stress and worry.”
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Ryan Hoover
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Lenny's Podcast

04 / belief

The point you made about you just needed money to run the thing, I think that's so overlooked when people bash the idea of fundraising for a startup that maybe didn't need it.

“The point you made about you just needed money to run the thing, I think that's so overlooked when people bash the idea of fundraising for a startup that maybe didn't need it.”
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Lenny Rachitsky
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Lenny's Podcast

07 / belief

What's interesting about your format is as you were talking, I kind of realized it's very similar to my newsletter format, which I think is part of the reason it worked, is it's based on people asking me a question and then I answer the question.

“What's interesting about your format is as you were talking, I kind of realized it's very similar to my newsletter format, which I think is part of the reason it worked, is it's based on people asking me a question and then I answer the question.”
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Lenny Rachitsky
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Lenny's Podcast

10 / preference

I have a recumbent bike at home that I use for exercise. And the reason why it's recumbent and not like a Peloton where you sit up is because I can do bills and work basically while I'm exercising.

“I have a recumbent bike at home that I use for exercise. And the reason why it's recumbent and not like a Peloton where you sit up is because I can do bills and work basically while I'm exercising.”
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Ryan Hoover
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Lenny's Podcast

11 / evaluation

There's always contextual differences, but generally the easier it is to build a great solution for those people because now you can actually hone in the product experience, the messaging and everything to serve exactly those people.

“There's always contextual differences, but generally the easier it is to build a great solution for those people because now you can actually hone in the product experience, the messaging and everything to serve exactly those people.”
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Ryan Hoover
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

12 / evaluation

I think consumer social or games, building games is probably the hardest and the one filled with the most failures. And I think a lot of that is because a few things.

“I think consumer social or games, building games is probably the hardest and the one filled with the most failures. And I think a lot of that is because a few things.”
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Ryan Hoover
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

14 / preference

You also don't want to subject them to the same anxiety that you're feeling and be 100% transparent. So it's a struggle because I think, I don't know, I value authenticity so much and I kind of thrive around people who are authentic.

“You also don't want to subject them to the same anxiety that you're feeling and be 100% transparent. So it's a struggle because I think, I don't know, I value authenticity so much and I kind of thrive around people who are authentic.”
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Ryan Hoover
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Lenny's Podcast

16 / evaluation

In that, you are really pulling in experts in their domain expertise to find answers or inspiration. And I've always liked that format because one, it, I think, leads to better results, better content, better answers, but also it's arguably easier.

“In that, you are really pulling in experts in their domain expertise to find answers or inspiration. And I've always liked that format because one, it, I think, leads to better results, better content, better answers, but also it's arguably easier.”
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Ryan Hoover
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

17 / recommendation

And what mattered most was growth and to grow the community. But what I really should have done is dedicated maybe 10% of our focus on revenue generation, because once we started generate revenue, we did so very quickly and we got to cashflow breakeven, I want to say a year, maybe 12 months after we started generating revenue.

“And what mattered most was growth and to grow the community. But what I really should have done is dedicated maybe 10% of our focus on revenue generation, because once we started generate revenue, we did so very quickly and we got to cashflow breakeven, I want to say a year, maybe 12 months after we started generating revenue.”
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Ryan Hoover
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

18 / evaluation

So there is a scenario where if I had more money, then maybe I wouldn't have raised venture capital. But yeah, there's a lot of other decisions and other things that probably bigger mistakes I think I made.

“So there is a scenario where if I had more money, then maybe I wouldn't have raised venture capital. But yeah, there's a lot of other decisions and other things that probably bigger mistakes I think I made.”
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Ryan Hoover
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Lenny's Podcast

19 / evaluation

I make mistakes all the time, but at the end it's going to be way net positive because you kind of have to, just to [inaudible 00:35:59] your company anyway.

“I make mistakes all the time, but at the end it's going to be way net positive because you kind of have to, just to [inaudible 00:35:59] your company anyway.”
Speaker
Ryan Hoover
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Lenny's Podcast
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