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Ryan Hoover
Personal blog · ryanhoover.me/post · on HN as rrhooverstartupsbusinessproductivity
Ryan Hoover's personal blog at ryanhoover.me covers startups, business and productivity. Since 2011, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 69 times, most often “Email-First Startups”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ryan Hoover's posts on startup strategy, including email-first startups, side projects, community building and growing through Twitter. Commenters mostly cite them as background reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Email-First Startups4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-02-25
- /post/69599262875/product-hunt-began-as-an-email-list2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-01
- Second-Time Founder Anxiety2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-17
- SMS-First Startups2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-16
- I simply treated others the way I would want to be treated.2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-25
What Hacker News says?
> Ryan may be "in the circle" now, but it's not like he had a rich VC uncle. It's not nepotism; he had no connections when he started out. Product Hunt didn't succeed because he's "in the circle", he's "in the circle" because Product Hunt succeeded. No discredit to Ryan, but this isn't necessarily true. Prior to Product Hunt he hustled his way into the circle by interviewing individuals connected in the VC community…
Comment linking /post/69599262875/product-hunt-began-as-an-email-list
on “AngelList acquires Product Hunt”Submitted Email-First Startups as a story · 137 points
HN discussionRelated: http://ryanhoover.me/post/43986871442/email-first-startups
Comment linking /post/43986871442/email-first-startups
on “The Manual-First Startup”Submitted Do “Shitty” Work as a story · 116 points
HN discussionIs this resuming http://ryanhoover.me/post/43986871442/email-first-startups ? It's getting noisy in here. Edit: Here's the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5279590
Comment linking /post/43986871442/email-first-startups
on “Email First Startups”Submitted Stop Using noreply as a story · 85 points
HN discussionThat really depends on what kind of MVP it is and what you're bringing to the table. Some startup ideas can be hacked together quite simply by reusing a few existing services, tools and a bit of programming. Others may require some prototyping and fund raising (e.g. hard tech). Whatever it may be, the MVP is a hack and experiment to prove product-market fit. It's the tiniest, minimal effort you can expend to build a…
Comment linking /post/69599262875/product-hunt-began-as-an-email-list
on “Ask HN: How much work do you put into MVP?”Submitted Twitter Just Became a Games Platform as a story · 74 points
HN discussionYou think so? It doesn't have a content problem (there's infinite music). I posited that Turntable.fm failed for other reasons: http://ryanhoover.me/post/45420658844/what-killed-turntable-...
Comment linking /post/45420658844/what-killed-turntable-fm
on “Is Your Product Too Engaging?”Submitted SMS-First Startups as a story · 45 points
HN discussionGood thoughts, Ivan. I wrote this relevant article, Pain = Validation, a while ago: http://ryanhoover.me/post/54951607013/pain-validation Also, today's Startup Edition is on the very topic of how to validate a startup idea - http://t.co/E2D4IdODhe
Comment linking /post/54951607013/pain-validation
on “Don't Learn to Code”Submitted Why you should build your product in public as a story · 42 points
HN discussionI'd like to see more content producers adopt this model. As a long time TWiST fan, I gladly donated. I actually wrote a short blog post about this model and twistlist.co a few hours ago: http://ryanhoover.me/post/4768633874/please-take-my-money-mr... /unashamedplug
Comment linking /post/4768633874/please-take-my-money-mr-content-producer
on “Subscriptions work? $1,800 in donations during live podcast ”Submitted Is Your Product Too Engaging? as a story · 31 points
HN discussionI was talking about early stage entrepreneurs. Working on multiple ideas once you are successful or have enough experience sounds logical but initially that might be a hurdle. Check this article for examples. Really good one http://ryanhoover.me/post/98567029388/startup-side-projects
Comment linking /post/98567029388/startup-side-projects
on “Entrepreneurs are not different from VCs: both need a portfolio”Submitted Don't Learn to Code as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSome good reading on this topic: http://moz.com/blog/sense-of-community http://ryanhoover.me/post/77704756875/the-building-blocks-of... https://www.quora.com/How-did-Instagram-build-up-its-communi... http://www.inboundpro.net/16-influential-bloggers-reveal-bui...
Comment linking /post/77704756875/the-building-blocks-of-community
on “Ask HN: what makes a great community?”Submitted Last Impression as a story · 19 points
HN discussionRyan Hoover of Product Hunt really leveraged Twitter for early days of PH. I would check out his old site: http://ryanhoover.me/archive and go over posts starting 2014.
Comment linking /archive
on “Ask HN: Good blogs or books about growth hacking with Twitter?”Submitted Blogging vs. Building as a story · 18 points
HN discussionMore details on the experiment here: http://ryanhoover.me/post/66192199851/announcing-product-hun...
Comment linking /post/66192199851/announcing-product-hunt
on “Product Hunt: Cool Hunting for Web & Mobile Apps”Submitted Easter Egg Marketing: How Snapchat, Apple, and Google Hook You as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Killed Turntable.fm? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nostalgia: A Product Designer's Secret Weapon as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Email List: 50% Open Rate, 23% CTR as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Idea to MVP in 20 Minutes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Email as an Interface as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perceived Anti-Patterns as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Snapchat's Biggest Weakness as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Email-First Startups as a story · 3 points
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