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Sending love, whisky friend :)

This was written for investors but curious to hear the POV from more founders

Appreciate that. :) We also entered the market at the right time. 2013 was very optimistic as mobile hit mainstream and barriers to build lowered. We’re entering a similar phase wi…

It's been a while since I've published an essay. Hopefully this is useful for a few folks.

I do implicitly as I've gotten to know talented, motivated people

I've been doing a lot of self-reflection going into the new year and thought I would share some learnings building Product Hunt over the past 5 years, along with our YC application…

Product Hunt (YC S14) | Full time | REMOTE We love products, care about people, and thirst to build a community that celebrates making. Our distributed, tight-knit team is headquar…

Funny you ask. Jacq on our team is planning our next retreat. Earlier this year we brought everyone to SF. The year prior shortly after the acquisition, the entire team (including …

It's been a loooong time since we hosted a hackathon. The last one took place at YC HQ in Mountain View three years ago. So far we have 1,000+ makers signed up and awesome group of…

Love the idea of connecting makers with specific beta testers that match their target audience. We're exploring this as well. Re: "spackling of existing services", you're right. We…

Product Hunt's ranking works similar to Hacker News. As mentioned in our F[AQ]( https://www.producthunt.com/faq#how-do-things-end-up-on-the-... ) is based on the number of upvotes,…

Hey, Sam! You recently announced HN is being split off from YC. What changes will we see to the site/community in the next 6 months?

My favorite quote: "If you are driven by social signals, you shouldn’t be an entrepreneur."

We do have voting ring detection in place and often inform makers of our policy on Twitter when we see them asking for upvotes (often times they simply don't know it's not OK) in a…

Hi, @taphangum! Sorry about that. :( We ask that makers tweet at @producthunt to get access if they can't already comment. My apologies if you already tried that but I've updated y…

As a long-time follower of the mysterious and opinionated Startup L Jackson, we had a fun time chatting with him on the podcast.