Hey everybody Kevin Rose here.

Welcome to another episode of the journal. If this is your first time here I want to say thanks for downloading and appreciate you

joining us for this episode. We got a great guest on the show today. Ryan Hoover, who is the

founder and CEO of Product Hunt. If you're in the tech scene, you definitely know Product Hunt.

If you are not in the tech scene scene but you have an idea for a product

you want to know about product hunt what it does and how to best use it to your

advantage but first if you are new to the journal this is your first time here

Thanks for downloading but also I want to tell you about our newsletter so I send out a newsletter the first day of every month and it is packed full of all kinds of good information.

I spent a ton of time going in and looking at, gosh, probably close to 100 different articles and these articles can range from kind of productivity hacks to stuff about Japanese culture and meditation, find spirits, really cool apps, all different types of really odd things.

We actually call it the newsletter for the Curious.

So there's bound to be something in there. I typically post about six or seven different articles per newsletter.

There's bound to be something in there that you'll find really compelling and enjoy.

So check it out. Like I said, this isn't one of those newsletters that you sign up for and you get a bunch of spam and you know it ends up coming every day or once a week. I only send this once a month. So the open

rate, I'm actually really proud of the open rate. The open rate is is right around

70%. Most newsletters out there are around 15%.

So the folks that do receive it, really enjoy it.

We're close to right around 70,000 people now reading the newsletter.

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Put in your email address there confirm it and I'll get you an old issue so you can check it out right away and then you just sit back and relax and

wait for the next month to come around and boom there's a new new issue in your

inbox and tons of good stuff for you to check out. Anyway that's the journal dot email sign up over there. So today's

guest as I mentioned Ryan Hoover he is the creator of Product Hunt. Product Hunt is a social product website that allows its individual community members to come in and submit new products and then vote on them and the best ones kind of surface to the top.

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