Ryan Hoover

Ryan Hoover

Product HuntProduct Hunt
Founder of Product Hunt & Weekend Fund
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About

It's always slightly awkward to write your own bio. ;) I grew up in Oregon with entrepreneurial parents. I started my career in gaming and fell into product management shortly after college. That led me to San Francisco where I worked in gaming for the first few years of my career before starting Product Hunt. Fast-forward to today, I spend most of my time investing in early-stage startups out of Weekend Fund and live in Miami (although I spend a fair amount of time working remotely in LA, NYC, and other places with fast WiFi). Outside of work I enjoy live music, hanging with friends in smaller groups (introvert πŸ™‹πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ), and weightlifting.

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Max Musingβ€’

8h ago

How we decided to pivot after 4 years

After four long years of grinding, building, fundraising, and hiring, we decided to pivot. I wanted to write down my thought process and timeline because I wish I d seen more honest pivot stories when we were stuck. Not just we pivoted and everything was instantly great but the real version where we kept trying to make the original idea work for way too long because we already put so much into it.

I went through YC S20 (the first COVID batch) as a solo founder working on @Basedash. After YC, I did what you re supposed to do. I talked to users. I built product. I did founder-led sales. I hired a great team. It felt like progress because I was constantly busy and the product kept getting better.

Poep/poeChris Messinaβ€’

4mo ago

Poe launches leaderboard tracking usage of top AI models

Pretty cool to see their rise and fall over time.

Ryan Hooverβ€’

4mo ago

Fish Audio S1 - Expressive Voice Cloning and Text-to-Speech

Fish Audio S1 is the most expressive and emotionally rich TTS modelβ€”creating lifelike voices that capture emotion, rhythm, and nuance. Clone any voice in 10 seconds, preserving accent, tone, and speaking habits with unmatched realism.
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