Rhona Aylward

Are you recording it in house or getting your voiceover artist to record in their studio? If you do it in house & don't have a room set up, make sure you have a recording booth. We've got a DIY one that we made out of a box insulated with acoustic foam & it works really well.

My top tip would be always have a pre written script that you've gone through at least once before you begin recording.

What a wonderful post @panphora! Thanks for sharing.

Examples using all the different programming languages they can work in

I came across this list: https://www.eggradients.com/startup-directory I can't vouch for its accuracy but it might be worth looking at.

Hi everyone, I'm a first time host too and would love to connect with other people hosting in Wellington, New Zealand and anywhere else in NZ.

If there was one thing you could fix with "insert subject of choice" right now, what would it be?

I'm really glad to hear that too. At one of my companies we've got the problem that someone got the company name before we did. They are completely inactive - they even have the old egg profile picture, but Twitter won't help. Maybe we'll be able to get it now :-)

Mine is getting visibility with a limited marketing budget.

I try to keep weekends as free as possible. I'm really busy during the week and need weekends to do chores otherwise they don't get done. On saying that I usually end up working for a couple of hours on a Sunday, more if there's a deadline looming.

That's a very interesting question! I wonder how it's going to work globally given different privacy requirements in different countries, particularly around storing and processing personal data.

Same as @abadesi and I also go to local start up events. I'm a member of a couple of relevant associations as well. If you've got a local economic development agency they usually have fantastic events & free training as well.

Hi Andy, I'd love to know if Angel investors value companies that have bootstrapped for a while (>1 year) before looking for investment, or do they prefer to get in early before there is any real revenue?

I block ads on certain websites. I do it because a) I get fed up of seeing adverts for products that I've already bought and b) because some ads end up taking over the whole screen rendering the site unusable.

Yes, we have a group of informal advisers that we contact on an ad hoc basis. We know all of them in real life & they consist of our accountant, lawyer, business coach and trusted business owners. It works really well for us, we did consider having a formal advisory board, but in all honesty, we're too small for that at the moment and the costs are prohibitive at this time.

I've been thinking about this and I wonder how successful Product Hunt would be without the big companies launching here? People are attracted because there are big companies launching, therefore small companies that launch here get more attention than they would get otherwise as a result.

@shraddhasrivastava posted a blog about launching here a couple of days ago. We're in a similar point of pre-launch and it was really useful. Here's a link in case you missed it. https://browsee.io/blog/learnings-from-our-producthunt-launch/ Good luck for your launch!

Thanks for sharing this, we're going to be launching soon so it's great to get lessons learned from someone who has gone there before us!

Yes, I've deleted a few. I'm amazed at the amount of permissions some apps ask for, games being particularly bad.

I really like this idea. Is there somewhere on the website to download the app? I know it's available on the app stores but it might be useful to have links to them on the website as well. Just my 2c worth.