How to build an engaged community online – with Ryan Hoover

Ryan Hoover, Product Hunt, Marketplace, Mixergy Fan

Today we’ve got a long-time Mixergy fan who’s here to talk about how he built a community, a community I’m proud to be a part of and so many other people in the startup world are part of.

He created a site that features a list of new products that are voted on by the startup and tech community. Three million referrals-that’s how many they’ve sent out per month from the site. That means people like me are going to their site, finding new products and not just looking at them and gawking and criticizing, but clicking over to see those products. That’s how active that community is.

His name is Ryan Hoover. He is the founder of Product Hunt, which surfaces the best new products every day.

Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt

Ryan Hoover is the Founder of Product Hunt which surfaces the best new products every day.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I am the founder-the very proud founder-of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart.

I’m proud because today we’ve got a long-time Mixergy fan on, a guy I’ve been talking to since 2009 at least. Today’s guest is going to be talking about how he built a community, a community I’m proud to be a part of and so many other people in the startup world are part of. I invited him here to talk about how he did it.

What he did more specifically was he created a site that features a list of new products that are voted on by the startup and tech community. Three million referrals-that’s how many they’ve sent out per month from the site. That means people like me are going to their site, finding new products and not just looking at them and gawking and criticizing, but clicking over to see those products. That’s how active that community is.

His name is Ryan...

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