Hoover enlisted David McKinney, an Australia-based developer, to design and develop the app. Overall, the app lets folks do the same things as the website, except it’s optimized for the mobile phone. Much like the website, the app provides a clean feed interface as well as the ability to zoom in on each product to see comments, related links, and upvotes. After all, if users are going to spend time - possibly way too much time - looking at Product Hunt on their phones, they want to have the full experience.
Product Hunt’s mobile app, probably the most anticipated step from Hoover, is finally here.Īlthough Product Hunt had a fairly decent mobile site for a while, its native app is essential in order to give Product Hunt an optimal mobile experience. Yes, every single investor reached out to him or were recommended and introduced to him by another investor, Hoover told me. Hoover did all of that fundraising in about two weeks, and without reaching out to any of them. And he has assembled a collection of name-brand investors: A-Grade Investments (Ashton Kutcher’s fund), Abdur Chowdhury, Andrew Chen, betaworks, Brenden Mulligan, Cowboy Ventures, CrunchFund, Google Ventures, Greylock Discovery Fund, Jack Altman, Ludlow Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Nir Eyal, Slow Ventures, SV Angel, Tradecraft, Vayner/RSE, and Y Combinator. So it’s really not at all shocking that Hoover has not only raised funding but that he raised pretty much all of it, except for Y Combinator’s $120,000, before he even began the three-month long program he just finished. Even his participation in Y Combinator’s recent class was the result of encouragement from some of the program’s partners who probably saw the potential it had and wanted Hoover to apply. Product Hunt has become the darling of Silicon Valley (Hoover told me that I’m not the first to call it that), garnering attention from investors, entrepreneurs, casual “makers,” reporters, and everyone in between. It’s a “Hacker News for Products,” or a “Reddit for products,” if you will. Community members can submit, vote and comment on, and generally browse daily submissions of products from the community. As a recap, Product Hunt is an online community that caters to the tech product fanatics.
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