Hi there 👋 I'm Ashley, Product Hunt's CEO. AMA 👇

@orliesaurus I usually wake up around 7:30a

@ahiggz ahhh glad to hear you're not a 4am terminator!

@orliesaurus I gave up on that pipe dream a long time ago! If you haven't already, go ahead and read Why We Sleep. The author makes a compelling case for not cutting off sleep before ~8 hours. Some of the most important cognitive & memory processes happen in the last couple of hours of sleep during NREM. Now I sleep until the sun comes up, guilt free 😇

@nikkielizdemere Hey Nichole! I tend to gravitate toward longer-form, deep-dive pieces. I especially like Stratechery, Not Boring, Divinations, and The Information. I think a lot about Charlie Munger and Warren Buffet's comments on knowledge and how it compounds like interest, so I try to be deliberate about learning something new every day. For some fun (non-tech) general news analysis, I like Galaxy Brain and Pirate Wires.

@shankybaba Thanks Shashank, we had a blast! And lots more events in the works, so stay tuned 😄

@davidlumley Hey David, thanks for the question! Most interesting, hmmm... I'm going to cheat and share a few: 1. I expected the vast majority of PH users to be based in Silicon Valley (or at least the US), but we actually have strongholds of users all over the world, and especially in certain pockets like India and Brazil. I hear a lot of stories about people who discovered Product Hunt because they live in a place where they don't know anyone else in real life who's a maker or who's very interested in tech, so we end up being their community of fellow tech-lovers online. 2. The sheer number of unicorns that have launched on Product Hunt is crazy! Notion, Airtable, Lattice, Loom, Zoom, Figma, Coinbase, Rippling, Robinhood, Brex, and many, many more. Every day I see new launches and wonder: which of these will be in the next batch of unicorns? Lots of VCs and tech press seem to use PH to do the same. 3. Internally: there are so many long-timers! Knowing tech company tenures are normally pretty short, the number of PH team members who've been here for 6+ years was really surprising, and a big tip-off for me that the culture must be really special.

@deephdave Hey Dave! We're actually thinking a lot about this right now. We don't have the exact implementation details ironed out yet, but it's likely we'll start with a more siloed experiment to start and figure out if / how to integrate into the broader system afterwards.

@jgrenzemann Hey Johannes, thanks for the kind words! As you say, Product Hunt is incredibly valuable to startups and makers, so job #1 is: "don't mess anything up" 😹 Beyond that, we have a lot of work ahead! I summarized our main focus areas in this comment.

@artistcarlose Hey Carlos, thanks for the question! Believe it or not, this one was hard to answer! Chocolate fondue and ice cream cones are probably two of my favorites. But I like to finish most big meals with a hot cup of mint tea 🍵😴

@abel_product Hey Abel! Historically the team has run super lean and PH usage skewed pretty heavily in favor of desktop web, so that's what was focused on. But these days, things are trending more mobile, and we're growing like crazy (and staffing up our native mobile team). Our plan is to build a new, mobile-first experience for PH as soon as that team is in place. Stay tuned!

@djangotricks Hey Aidas, thanks for the question! I answered another question about our revenue streams in this comment. At our current stage we're more focused on growth than profitability.

@zedandwhite I gotta be honest, it's not in our immediate roadmap. But I'm a big fan of night mode (and ideally automatic night vs. day mode) so I'd love to see it in the future!

@ashley @mayank_jhawar Thanks Mayank, appreciate the support! 🙌

@helvacilar Hey Arda! Historically, revenue has mostly come from advertising (either from display ads on-site, or in the form of event sponsorships). Looking forward, we'll be diversifying with new streams of revenue, including from Hyper, our sister company and VC arm.