How to Launch Your Next Project /w Product Hunt's Ryan Hoover
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2017
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Hoover is most notably known as the founder of the website that brings you all the world’s newest products and technologies, Product Hunt. He’s also a writer and founder of his new VC firm, Weekend Fund which he admits he started because he’s constantly chasing the warm fuzzy feelings he gets from helping other people. Some call him Silicon Valley’s “resident nice guy” and it won’t take you long to figure out why.
Ryan sees more product launches than perhaps anyone else in the world and knows how to do it well and how to do it poorly. He shares his insights for his path of launching (and continuing to launch) Product Hunt and what he notices in the 100’s of launches that make it to his virtual doorstep, daily.
In today's episode,
- If you want to start something and stick with it for the long haul, scratch your own itch. Product Hunt was built out of Ryan’s own curiosity and drive to share new products with his friends.
- Building community>building products. Successful products are rarely built in a dark dungeon and then released to the world, perfect and ready to go viral. Before you launch anything, it’s crucial to build a community of people who care about what you’re building and seek their feedback every step of the way.
- You’re one decision away from an entirely different life. We talk about how to resist the urge to take the easy route and make a path to living a life that you want to live.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, how's it going? What's up? It's your friend Chase. That's right. Welcome to another episode of the Chaserava's live show here on Creative Live. I am so happy to be in your ears. Grateful, gratitude to the Maxitude. You guys are in store for an amazing show. This week's guest is Ryan Hoover. |
| 0:22.4 | If you hail from Silicon Valley or you are a techie product nerd like me, then you know |
| 0:29.1 | Ryan as the founder of Product Hunt. |
| 0:32.1 | It is the place where new products get released every single day. |
| 0:35.6 | In addition to Ryan having made this site out of nothing, |
| 0:39.4 | and it's a community of millions, |
| 0:42.1 | he is also an author. |
| 0:43.9 | I first came in touch with his writing on Medium, |
| 0:46.8 | and then later I found out he actually contributed |
| 0:49.2 | to what I think is one of the best product-centric. |
| 0:53.2 | And by product, I mean like, you know, |
| 0:54.8 | digital goods or physical goods. A product, a book, a friend of mine wrote named Near, |
| 0:59.7 | near Isle. I think he's got, we've got to get near on the show. But I found out recently that |
| 1:04.4 | Ryan contributed to that book. And I was like, I can totally see it. Anyway, this episode goes |
| 1:10.7 | deep around products. And more than anything, I wanted totally see it. Anyway, this episode goes deep around products. |
| 1:12.7 | And more than anything, I wanted to have Ryan on the show for, well, for many reasons, |
| 1:16.9 | but more than any, the fact that what Ryan has watched is Ryan has watched 100 products |
| 1:23.3 | get released every day for like five years. |
| 1:26.4 | So thousands and thousands of products get put on Ryan's |
| 1:30.7 | site and he watches the, and these are when I buy products. I mean sometimes it's a podcast, |
| 1:35.1 | sometimes it's a information like a class or something. Other times it's hardware or software or a game. |
| 1:41.9 | And Ryan has watched what it takes to create a successful |
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