Hi! 👋🏼
My name's Ryan Hoover.
I’m the Founder of Product Hunt and Investor at Weekend Fund.
I helped write Hooked and sometimes I publish essays.
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Recent Essays
And 200+ more
Companies & Projects
Product Hunt
The global launchpad for startups (acquired)
Weekend Fund
An early-stage venture fund backed by 350+ operator LPs
Rolodexer
A tool to search for people that know me
Signature Block
How to build a successful fund (50K+ subs)
Hooked
How to build habit-forming products (500K+ copies sold)
Home
A visual music project with home videos from my childhood
[TBA]
A tool for our investor friends
And more to come :)
Investments
Adaptive • AirGarage • Alt • Alter (acq. by Google) • Athena • Atlys • Blueland • Braintrust • Carrd • Certn • Deel • Diagram (acq. by Figma) • Extropic • Flyby Robotics • Function Health • GHC • Intercom • InVideo • Justpoint • Kin • Luminai • Mainframe • Mindbloom • MoonPay • Outset • Passport • Pipe • Pinwheel • Rail • Rosebud • Supergreat (acq. by Whatnot) • Superwall • System2 • thirdweb • Truemed
And 100+ others