product hunt

Marc Louvion (@marc_louvion) is the Maker of the Year 2023 and the visionary behind the innovative ShipFast. His product development philosophy emphasizes rapid shipping and focusing on feature-specific builds, which has transformed his approach to creating tech products. Utilizing platforms like ProductHunt for launches, Marc highlights the importance of pre-validation and community feedback in fine-tuning his products, illustrating his strategic and responsive methodology to product creation.

In our insightful conversation —that at some point turns into a founder brainstorming session— Marc delves into the emotional nuances of creators who navigate various expressive avenues, from entrepreneurship to writing, and then returning to coding. His journey with ShipFast showcases the blend of strategic foresight and serendipity crucial for digital market success, alongside the continuous process of innovation. The discussion dive into the intricacies of building a community around a product, the challenges of SaaS businesses, and the significance of maintaining a work-life balance that incorporates personal interests, which in turn fosters a lifestyle that integrates personal well-being with technological advancement.

Marc on Twitter: https://twitter.com/marc_louvion

00:00:00 Building and Launching

00:07:54 Building Startups, Creating Magic, Finding Success

00:13:41 Building a Community Around a Product

00:26:08 Building a Software Community Platform

00:32:25 Balancing Work and Life as Founders

00:41:43 Sharing Hobbies and Life Reflections

This episode is sponsored by Acquire.com

The blog post: https://thebootstrappedfounder.com/marc-louvion-becoming-a-product-launch-beast/

The podcast episode: https://tbf.fm/episodes/300-marc-louvion-becoming-a-product-launch-beast

The video: https://youtu.be/yFy1n1TPWNM

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• (00:00) - Building and Launching
• (07:54) - Building Startups, Creating Magic, Finding Success
• (13:41) - Building a Community Around a Product
• (26:08) - Building a Software Community Platform
• (32:25) - Balancing Work and Life as Founders
• (41:43) - Sharing Hobbies and Life Reflections

Conversamos con Henry Jiménez Arias, un emprendedor de base tecnológica que nos presenta un portal llamado Evolupedia donde podrás estar al día de miles de aplicaciones de IA.

Con este portal, la idea es aprovechar la IA y aumentar 10 veces tu productividad y acelerar tu carrera. De esta manera se está creando la comunidad en español más grande, más de 6.0000 lectores.

Henry es licenciado en Business Administration por la Pontificia Universidad Uniciencia, además de máster en EAE Business School en Emprendimiento, Marketing y Ventas. Ha estudiado también en IE Business School en el área de Consumer & Innovation Excellence y en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos una especialización en Marketing Internacional. 

Profesionalmente cuenta con experiencia en empresa como Loreal y Johnson & Johnson y como Inversor de Startups y Growth Manager.

Actualmente está 100% con el proyecto Evolupedia.

Nick Telson is the founder of Trumpet and Pitch Deck podcast.
Trumpet is a platform that helps users design personalized, trackable sales pods in just a few clicks: Think microsites for salespeople. Shopify + Canva + Slack all combined to help you close more deals faster. 

Trumpet has raised to date $2mn Lightbird Ventures alongside Triple Point Ventures and a few angels. 

Nick is also an angel investor invested in over 55 startups across the US, UK, Latam, and Africa through your investment arm, Horseplay Ventures.

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Don Bosco is the founder of Bhuman.ai, a technology company creating personalized videos that are indistinguishable from recorded videos by using a mixture of proprietary voice cloning, auto lip sync, and morphing technology. Bhuman.ai raised $885k for your pre-seed round.

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It is Free and Short (2min).

אחרי הפרק הקודם עם אלדד פוקס, על אופן סורס הפעם אלדד מדבר על הדרך והמסלול שלו עם האופן סורס שלו, AppWrite. 

איך עוזבים משרת CTO בוואלה, כדי להרים פרוייקט אופן סורס משלך? 
האם, מתי ואיך לגייס כסף לפרוייקט שלך? 
כיצד מגייסים עובדים ואיך זה שאין לחברה משרדים ?
ומה קורה ביום שאחרי שהפרוייקט שלך נבחר להיות פיצ׳רד בפרודקט האנט?

כל זאת ועוד בפרק מרתק על ניהול חברת אופן סורס, הובלת קהילה ועל התנהלות חברה ב 100% רימוט. 

מפתחים מחוץ לקופסה…. מ ת ח י ל י ם!

החברה של אלדד AppWrite גייסה 30 מליון דולר כדי לבנות את הפלטפורמה שלהם. 

בנוסף מאז הקלטת הפרק AppWrite זכו במוצר השנה למפתחים בתחרות ה-Golden Kitty Awards של Product Hunt בעיני רבים התואר הכי נחשב בעולמות המוצר וסטארטאפים.
מוצר השנה של DEVIES Awards שבו זכו בשנה שעברה Vercel ו-Netlify
ובנוסף השיקו בטא פרטית של מוצר הענן שלהם https://appwrite.io/cloud

In this episode, I chat with Rosie Chopra, the Founder of Magical, a Robotic Process Automation startup that’s designed to move data across websites and web apps with a few keystrokes. Magical was in stealth until a few months ago after announcing a $41 million raise led by Coatue with participation from Greylock, Bain, Lightspeed Capital, SV Angels, and Blank Ventures. 

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Ingo is back on the pod in this episode. Noah and Ingo talk about Noah's launches over the last week with the Product Hunt launch for Potion and the Potion widgets launch. Ingo talks about how he has been doing some testing for Mara and it's been a little stressful. Hope you enjoy this one! Thanks for following along.

Mara: https://www.mara-solutions.com
Ingo: https://twitter.com/ingosview
Noah: https://twitter.com/noahwbragg
Potion: https://potion.so
Portfolio: https://noahbragg.com
Product Journey: https://productjourney.fm
Notion Websites: https://potion.so/notion-websites
Alternative to Super: https://potion.so/super-alternative

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.

This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha and Alex asked: Why is tech full of copycats, and what’s the next full circle moment we can expect?

The question was inspired by Natasha's recent Startups Weekly column: "YC makes a Product Hunt, Product Hunt makes an a16z, a16z makes a YC." As you can tell by that headline and this week's episode title, we're talking about how tech is full of copycats and what that means for the bar of innovation.

Expect to learn about the overlap in mission between three of tech's most well-known institutions, what Prologue means for Future (literally and figuratively), and how a rising tide can both confuse and complement the founder fundraising journey.

Also it was a good excuse to chat through some of the competitive dynamics that we see play out across the startup landscape. We had a great time, and hope you like the show. We're back Friday with our regular news roundup!

Equity drops every Monday at 7 a.m. PDT and Wednesday and Friday at 6 a.m. PDT, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts.

Credits: Equity is hosted by TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm and Mary Ann Azevedo. We are produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products.

Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Mariam Hakobyan (@mariam_hakobyan), Co-Founder and CEO of Softr, the easiest no-code platform for building custom apps and portals, in minutes. With Softr, you can build client portals, internal tools, marketplaces, online communities, resource directories, websites and more. They believe the world is missing out on some of the most creative minds, ideas and innovation (99.7% to be exact), and have set out to change that with Softr by democratizing software building so anyone can build businesses without tech skills.

Softr grew from 0 to 50K+ users in <1 year, with $0 marketing, all driven by WOM, virality and a passionate community. In January 2022, they closed their $13.5M Series A to build the largest ecosystem of no-code apps.

Mariam is an engineer turned entrepreneur, mother of two, and lover of all things technology, product & design. She built and led products & engineering teams for more than a decade, and is now making tech accessible to everyone by building the future of no-code.

Website: Softr

Slack: Softr Community

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mariamhakobyan/

Twitter: @mariam_hakobyan

Show Notes:

• What is Softr?
• Softr’s origin story, their MVP, and how they’ve evolved
• Deciding to price Softr higher than other website builders from the beginning
• The timeline from idea generation to launching MVP
• The journey to full-time for each Softr founder
• Softr’s Product Hunt launch and getting their first paying customers
• Finding and leveraging a community of Twitter no-code enthusiasts
• How they’ve maintained growth momentum post- Product Hunt
• How they landed on Softr’s growth strategy
• Launching their mobile app and letting their customers guide their product development
• The process of raising VC for Softr
• How they screened for right-fit investors
• The importance of empathy, trust, and conflict management skills in a co-founder relationship
• Married co-founders: the value of setting clear role and responsibility boundaries and finding work-life balance
• Mariam’s view on the landscape of the no-code industry
• The range of Softr’s use-cases

More about the show:

The Vitalize Podcast, a show by Vitalize Venture Capital (a seed-stage venture capital firm and pre-seed 300+ member angel community open to everyone), dives deep into the world of startup investing and the future of work.

Hosted by Justin Gordon, the Director of Marketing at Vitalize Venture Capital, The Vitalize Podcast includes two main series. 

The Angel Investing series features interviews with a variety of angel investors and VCs around the world. The goal? To help develop the next generation of amazing investors. 

The Future of Work series takes a look at the founders and investors shaping the new world of work, including insights from our team here at Vitalize Venture Capital. 

More about us:

Vitalize Venture Capital was formed in 2017 as a $16M seed-stage venture fund and now includes both a fund as well as an angel investing community investing in the future of work. Vitalize has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

The Vitalize Team:

Gale - https://twitter.com/galeforceVC
Caroline - https://twitter.com/carolinecasson_
Justin - https://twitter.com/justingordon212

Vitalize Angels, our angel investing community open to everyone:
https://vitalize.vc/vitalizeangels/

Daryna Kulya, Co-Founder at OpenPhone comes on to talk about changing the business phone for modern businesses. Kenny wants to be like Phil when he grows up and Phil has an aw-shucks moment. 

We talk to Daryna about her past  - from founding Product Hunt in Toronto, and her time at Vidyard, to her current venture at OpenPhone. 

Kenny gets super stoked and downloads Openphone, gets set up and running in less than the time it takes for us to talk about Openphone. 

Check out OpenPhone here: https://www.openphone.co/

Find Daryna on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darynakulya/

In this special episode, three Userlist co-founders — Claire Suellentrop, Benedikt Deicke, and Jane herself — get together to answer a few questions from the audience. They share the strategy behind their recent Product Hunt launch (which scored #1 Product of the Day), their founding story, product management techniques, and so much more.

Podcast feed: subscribe to https://feeds.simplecast.com/4MvgQ73R in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play Music.

Show Notes

• Userlist — the product we're talking about
• Episode 49: Behind the Scenes of Tiny Reminder Launch with Benedikt Deicke
• Episode 56: Product Development Secrets with Claire Suellentrop
• Episode 92: Behind the Scenes of Userlist.io Research with Claire Suellentrop
• Behind the Scenes of Our Upcoming Public Launch
• The story of Userlist, Inc.
• Userlist Team & Company Values
• How We Used April Dunford’s 10-Step Method to Overhaul Positioning at Userlist
• Campaign Templates for Each User Lifecycle Stage
• Episode 139: Understanding Account-Level Engagement in SaaS with Derek Skaletsky
• Follow the team on Twitter: @ClaireSuellen, @benediktdeicke, @uibreakfast, @Userlistio

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I’ve had a product development metamorphosis. Our Proof team is in the middle of a 6-week product launch challenge. And this week is all about product feedback!

In the episode, I will walk you through the entire process we’ve used to approach product feedback calls. I’m going to share with you everything from how we find interviewees and structure up the calls to the questions we ask and how we handle feedback.

Plus, last week I promised to announce the 2 products Proof is launching during this cycle… Drumroll PLEASE!

1. Lifecycle campaigns
2. AI-powered recommended context

Tune in to find out more about these products!

Liking Founder Friday? Have an idea for a topic you'd like us to cover? Tweet at Dave — or shoot him an email at Dave@UseProof.com & tell us your thoughts!

We're excited to have you along for Season 1 of #ScaleOrDie. Before you leave, be sure to leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review, post a comment, or share with your friends! Tune into more episodes at useproof.com/scaleordie and read more stories at blog.useproof.com. Follow Dave & Proof on Twitter — @DaveRogemoser and @UseProof. We publish episodes every week so be sure to check back often for more interviews with the internet’s best minds in growth!

Turns out Kahlil is not only a JavaScript developer, but also a vocalist!!! Kahlil’s musical history and the making of "Nested Loops". Raquel gave an inspiring talk at Strange Loop about JavaScript and Robots. A new initiative for more enjoyable consumption of mobile content - Accelerated Mobile Pages.
We are going to introduce a Code of Conduct for our Slack channel. Product Hunt now supports podcasts. Henning needs an audio version of our Slack bot.

Timeline

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:00:51 Kahlil's musical history
• 00:14:38 The making of Nested Loops
• 00:31:06 JavaScript, what are you? T-shirt
• 00:33:19 Music and JavaScript
• 00:34:36 Technical details about Nested Loops
• 00:40:34 JSConfEU
• 00:42:34 Strange Loop
• 00:53:36 Accelerated Mobile Pages
• 01:00:34 npm run scripts by Lewis Cowper
• 01:02:28 New Slack members
• 01:04:19 Code of Conduct
• 01:10:17 New iTunes review
• 01:10:55 Product Hunt
• 01:14:56 Henning needs an audio Slack bot

Links

• Ill Inspecta - Like Puppa San
• Nested Loops
• JavaScript, what are you? T-shirt
• JSConf EU
• Strange Loop
• No, Really ... Robots and JavaScript?!
• Becoming a Tech Activist
• Hopelessness and Confidence in Distributed Systems Design
• Accelerated Mobile Pages Project
• AMP Demo as Video
• npm scripts
• markdown-chalk
• LGBTQ Code of Conduct
• Podcast Hunt
• Kahlil's PH Reactive collection

Got feedback/suggestions/questions? Get in touch with us!

• reactive.audio
• @reactivepod
• Rate us on iTunes
• Reactive on Slack
• Reactive on GitHub
• Kahlil Lechelt - @kahliltweets
• Raquel Vélez - @rockbot
• Henning Glatter-Götz - @hglattergotz

When we last spoke, I was mid-week through his experiment of building a product in 7 days.

Yesterday was supposed to be launch day, did I succeed?

Listen as I expose his personal audio journals to the world, chronicling his journey of writing and shipping "The Product Hunt Handbook." Explore the struggle, the obstacles, the exhaustion!

The actual work of producing a product is hard. Most of the time you waste is not getting to the actual work. In this case, the only thing that mattered was me sitting down at my computer with iBooks Author and writing. That's the only thing that brought me forward.

Initial Launch Stats for the Product Hunt Handbook

• Pre-orders: 58 people pre-ordered ($605)
• Total orders as of Friday morning (Feb 6): 89 total sales ($1,055)
• 40 sales came from Product Hunt, 32 sales came from the Build & Launch newsletter

This week's Build & Launch project

My buddy Marty and I are going to try to build an entire web application by Thursday, Feb 12th, 2015 BEFORE HIS BABY COMES.

Show Notes

• Tech Douchebags podcast
• The Product Hunt Handbook
• Kathleen Warner, a Designer at Gumroad, posted the book to Product Hunt
• Geek Beers in Vernon, BC
• People have been leaving iTunes reviews like crazy!
• Gumroad's 30 Day Challenge
• Build & Launch newsletter (get all my launch stats)
• Follow Justin on Twitter @mijustin
• BEARD UPDATE

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