Ryan Hoover

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August 22, 2014

Surreal

Yesterday was a bit surreal. We announced our funding and launched the iOS app in coordination with the press:

  • Product Hunt Raises $1 Million, Launches iOS App For Hunting On The Go (TechCrunch)
  • Silicon Valley darling Product Hunt gets $1M, launches app for its tech-fanatic community (VentureBeat)
  • Product Hunt grows up, nabs its first million and releases an app (Gigaom)
  • Product Hunt, the Reddit for What’s New in Tech, Is Now an App (Mashable)
  • Product Hunt, Which Helps Consumers Get the Real Deal on New Products, Raises $1 Million in Seed Funding (Re/code)
  • Product Hunt, the ‘Reddit for apps,’ launches on iOS (The Next Web)
  • Product Hunt is like Reddit for the hottest new apps and tech (Cult of Mac)
  • Step one: Capture Silicon Valley’s attention. Step three: Profit! Step two…? (Fortune)
  • The App That’s Grabbing the Startup World’s Attention (Inc)

Google Venture’s Leena Rao and Graham Hancock also filmed a short interview titled, Meet Product Hunt:

We even got featured in the App Store:

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Things are moving fast and somehow the wheels are still on the bus. :)

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