YC + PH

On December 4th, 2013, Carmel DeAmicis announced Product Hunt to the world in a piece titled Can the democratic power of a platform like Hacker News be applied to products? At the time, Product Hunt was still a side project and I didn’t have intentions of turning it into much more than that.

Reading that article makes me smile. Especially today. This morning we announced our Y Combinator-backing. You can follow the coverage and hear more about where we’re going here:

• Product Hunt, The Popular Tech Product Discovery Site, Is In Current Y Combinator Batch (TechCrunch)
• As Product Hunt joins Y Combinator, Hacker News starts to look more like Product Hunt (Gigaom)
• Product Hunt’s rise: From email experiment to launchpad for startups & VC deals (VentureBeat)
• Tech discovery site Product Hunt joins Y Combinator’s summer intake (The Next Web)
• Product Hunt Founder Explains Why The Hell He Joined Y Combinator (ValleyWag)

Thanks everyone for all the support and happy hunting. :)