What's up, everyone?

This is Cortland from NDHackers.com, and you are listening to the NDHackers podcast.

On this show, I talk to the founders of profitable internet businesses, and I try to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes.

How did they get to where they are today?

How did they make decisions, both at their companies and in their personal lives, and what makes their businesses tick? Today, I am talking to the one and only Ryan Hoover, the founder of Product Hunt, and apparently also known in some circles as the Hoovster. Ryan, welcome to the Indy Hackers podcast. Yeah, and for everyone else that's wondering where that reference came from. I think it was somebody in Indy Hackers. I'm forgetting his name at the moment. Called me the hooverster. Now I hear it all the time. I hear it all around San Francisco. It's catching on. I don't know. I don't know how I feel about it. But glad to be here. I've been, you know, listen to the podcast. It's on my feed my feed in the breaker podcast app. And so it's cool

to be on it. Cool. It's really cool to have you on here. Finally, we both live in San Francisco.

We both run online communities. We both recently got acquired by a bigger company. So I think we got

a lot to talk about. But perhaps the easiest place to start is what is product hunt exactly?

Yeah, so, so ProductTent is similar to Indy hackers. It's a community of people building and

excited about technology, really. So you'll see a lot of people building apps or Chrome extensions

or products or startups and launching on Product Hunt, but it's also kind of evolved into a network and a community of people who are also

connect with one another.

And that's why we launched things more recently like chat.

So you can chat one on one with other individuals and other projects that we're working on to

kind of extend the opportunities for people to help each other, learn from each other,

connect and so on.

What would you say is the difference between ND hackers and, for people to help each other, learn from each other, connect, and so on.

What would you say is the difference between anti-hackers and product hunt?

I would say product hunt started off the very first version as a place to discover new cool products. And it was inspired largely by, if I go back to 2011, I actually used to browse Angelist, ironically

enough, looking at companies because I'm such a nerd, and I was just curious to see what people

were building. And so the beginnings of product hunt were simply, I want to list a really cool

apps products and things, and I want a place to share and talk about them with friends.

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