Thank you so much for sharing great insights, Greg!
I don't know if you remember me but I took your mavan "Community College" course before ;)
As an international founder who is always thinking about how to bring value to users faster and better, I really resonated with this article!
Here's a list of my highlights that I really resonated with from this article and my notes:
>> Product Hunt was an early example ofstarting with a community and then building the product, rather than the other way around.
>> More than winning new users, Product Hunt won affection, building a genuine, warm community very different than the snark and sarcasm of Hacker News or Reddit. Much of that was down to Hoover himself, by all accounts a genuinely kind, charismatic leader.
>> Hoover notes that Live Chat was "This was VERY effective in building the brand in the early days" but didn't make a meaningful difference at scale.
✍️ Note: This happens to even experienced founders
>> Hoover had been thinking of leaving for a while. After seven years spent building one of the internet's liveliest communities, he felt it was time to turn the page.
✍️ Note: I wonder what his emotion was behind of this decision.
>> Because of the platform's focus on individual launches, the relationship that forms between consumer and maker is time-bound.
✍️ Note: Good insight. That's why PH needs to leverage and increase the consumer's early engagement for makers.
>> In the past, companies launched products to gain attention, to win customers, to attract investment. With a crowdfunding model, all three of those needs (attention, customers, and investment) could happen at once.
Well this was intense
Great post. Thanks for taking the time and putting it down on the paper.
Thank you so much for sharing great insights, Greg!
I don't know if you remember me but I took your mavan "Community College" course before ;)
As an international founder who is always thinking about how to bring value to users faster and better, I really resonated with this article!
Here's a list of my highlights that I really resonated with from this article and my notes:
>> Product Hunt was an early example ofstarting with a community and then building the product, rather than the other way around.
>> More than winning new users, Product Hunt won affection, building a genuine, warm community very different than the snark and sarcasm of Hacker News or Reddit. Much of that was down to Hoover himself, by all accounts a genuinely kind, charismatic leader.
>> Hoover notes that Live Chat was "This was VERY effective in building the brand in the early days" but didn't make a meaningful difference at scale.
✍️ Note: This happens to even experienced founders
>> Hoover had been thinking of leaving for a while. After seven years spent building one of the internet's liveliest communities, he felt it was time to turn the page.
✍️ Note: I wonder what his emotion was behind of this decision.
>> Because of the platform's focus on individual launches, the relationship that forms between consumer and maker is time-bound.
✍️ Note: Good insight. That's why PH needs to leverage and increase the consumer's early engagement for makers.
>> In the past, companies launched products to gain attention, to win customers, to attract investment. With a crowdfunding model, all three of those needs (attention, customers, and investment) could happen at once.
Thank you again for sharing great insights, Greg!
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