#4 - How Product Hunt's Ryan Hoover Built A $20M Community From Scratch

And so you sell the company You got money now. What happens that first day money hits the bank? Um you said in their refreshing, you know, Wells Fargo. Some people they they love to go like celebrate with like a big thing. Actually me, I flew to LA that day, I think it was a Friday, and we actually just went to a restaurant and I ordered of course like a rotisserie chicken and like some Brussels sprouts. You're my friend. We haven't caught up in a little while'cause you've been traveling and doing all kinds of interesting stuff. B, you're probably unique. So like most of the people I have on this show special. Yeah, you're special. You're a special snuff like most of the people I'm trying to have on the show are like

the greedy capitalist pigs. Like I like that. I'm like, oh you found out that you can s you know buy and sell this one arbitrage and you levered up and you did this crazy thing. But you're very different. You obviously, you know, you've done well in business, but I think That's a byproduct. To me, you're A really thoughtful dude who has built a really cool business yourself plus invested in a bunch of other interesting companies. And You're different. You're like the nicest guy I know in tech who's like around town. And I think that that's kind of I want people to to get to know that side. So we're gonna talk about Product Hunt. I mean, most people know the journey. So like here's here's my like short version of the story. So Product Hunt started as a project, not even a company. Is that like Actually I called it an experiment. So not even a project. It was like pre project. We're talking like week weekend experiment, or what were you thinking at the time?

I was you know Tinkering it was an experiment. That's what I call the actually if you look back on the tweet, the the word I use was an experiment. And there wasn't really an intention or a goal other than just exploring like Do people find new products really interesting and Do they subscribe to this email list I created and that kind of thing. So you you reached out to me and you were like uh the way I felt was like I geek out about every kind of new product and want to talk about it and see new things all the time. Are there other people like that? I think I know a hundred of them. And let's start with that hundred. Like how many people were on that initial

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