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Why I’m excited about profit-sharing startups
January 5, 2024
The Problems in Remote Working
March 17, 2019
The Rise of “No Code”
January 27, 2019
How to come up with side project ideas
November 20, 2016
The 20-Minute MVP
January 1, 2014
Blogging is the New Resume
December 22, 2013
Don't Learn to Code
November 19, 2013
Do "Shitty" Work
November 5, 2013
Easter Egg Marketing: How Snapchat, Apple, and Google Hook You
September 18, 2013
Knowing When It's Time to Move On
August 8, 2013
Email-First Startups
February 25, 2013
Why you should build your product in public
April 21, 2014
Unwinding as a founder
November 19, 2024
Everyone’s a generalist
September 12, 2024
Home, a visual music project
August 30, 2024
The community trap
August 21, 2024
Why you should move
August 13, 2024
Beware of labels
August 1, 2024
We are Porter
July 28, 2024
Values
July 22, 2024
How to make new friends as an adult
July 11, 2024
Why YourStack failed
June 26, 2024
Should do. Could do.
June 21, 2024
The accountability experiment
June 18, 2024
Finding_Enoughness.wav
June 16, 2024
The next Turntable.fm?
June 13, 2024
Non-obvious problems
May 29, 2024
I asked my friends for anonymous feedback
May 19, 2024
How are you doing?
March 28, 2024
Change and authenticity
March 23, 2024
Real friends
March 4, 2024
Do scary things
February 3, 2024
Why I’m excited about profit-sharing startups
January 5, 2024
Generative AI and Moats
December 21, 2023
Miss you, Little D
December 6, 2023
Second-Time Founder Anxiety
October 17, 2023
Our latest experiment: Weekend Pitch
March 11, 2020
What’s in your stack?
January 28, 2020
Weekend Fund 2.0
November 25, 2019
Turn your side project into a company. Introducing Weekend Build.
July 14, 2019
A virtual co-working space for makers
March 28, 2019
The Problems in Remote Working
March 17, 2019
The Rise of Maker Communities
February 23, 2019
The Rise of “No Code”
January 27, 2019
The search for the Weekend Fund Chief of Staff
January 12, 2019
Finding the sweet spot with your team
December 16, 2018
5 Years of Product Hunt
November 29, 2018
Product Hunt Radio is back
August 29, 2018
A new space for Makers
July 25, 2018
You have one unread message 👀
July 10, 2018
Request for (crazy) startups
June 30, 2018
The New Product Hunt for iOS and Android
February 27, 2018
A new experimental app from Product Hunt
February 22, 2018
How we made our first dollar at Product Hunt
January 30, 2018
Decentralized Startups
January 17, 2018
Your invite to Product Hunt’s 4th annual community meetup 🎉
January 15, 2018
RIP emojis. The future of communication.
January 8, 2018
Winners of the Product Hunt Global Hackathon 2017
December 18, 2017
The Product Hunt Global Hackathon — Join Us! 🌎
October 23, 2017
Weekend Fund ☀️
September 21, 2017
Introducing Ship by Product Hunt
September 14, 2017
Diversify your Twitter friends 👨🏻👧🏽👱🏿👩🏻
May 9, 2017
Building a startup? Build an audience, first.
April 23, 2017
Defining your company values in emoji
April 11, 2017
Introducing Ask Product Hunt 🤔
April 3, 2017
Pinterest and the visual web
February 21, 2017
Silicon Valley isn’t “Mainstream”
February 6, 2017
2016, another year of great music 🎶
December 26, 2016
Can I help?
December 13, 2016
Product Hunt + AngelList✌️😸
December 1, 2016
How to come up with side project ideas
November 20, 2016
Introducing Product Hunt Cards
October 25, 2016
Please be kind on launch day 😊
October 24, 2016
Artificial Intelligence Natives
October 16, 2016
Stranger Things Mixes You’ll Love 🔥
September 27, 2016
Email’s not dead
August 25, 2016
Teaming up with Amazon
August 17, 2016
Planet of the Apps + Product Hunt, Coming to a City Near You 🙌
July 21, 2016
Why I’m excited for Planet of the Apps
July 12, 2016
Introducing Kittybot by Product Hunt 👋
May 26, 2016
The Product Hunt Shop is Now Open
May 19, 2016
You’re looking good (on Product Hunt) 😽
May 3, 2016
A tiny Product Hunt app for your Mac
April 21, 2016
There’s a Topic for that
March 22, 2016
New haircut, Product Hunt?
February 18, 2016
Role models
January 28, 2016
A few Peachy observations
January 12, 2016
2015, a year of firsts
January 4, 2016
A dangerous new game called Camera Rollette
December 27, 2015
Let’s continue to build Product Hunt, together
December 22, 2015
2015, the year I fell in love with music
December 13, 2015
The New Product Hunt iOS App (described in GIFs)
December 10, 2015
Say hi to Product Hunt 2.0
November 12, 2015
#squadgoals
October 22, 2015
From Rejection to Product Hunt
October 19, 2015
“Build for fun” (っ◕‿◕)っ
October 14, 2015
“Everyone is human”
October 9, 2015
Software and Culture
September 15, 2015
(Still) Building in Public
September 1, 2015
Product Hunt LIVE
August 18, 2015
Live from last week’s Product Hunt Happy Hour
June 24, 2015
“The world doesn’t need another blogging platform. But I did.”
May 14, 2015
Startups ≠ Freedom
May 9, 2015
8 Products Demonstrating the Future of Tech
April 30, 2015
Stay classy, Internet
April 24, 2015
“Holy shit, this thing actually works”
April 24, 2015
1,000,000
March 30, 2015
“I’m scared”
March 15, 2015
“We learn from each other”
February 28, 2015
We fucked up
February 19, 2015
Talking Community and Product Hunt at Startup Grind (video)
February 16, 2015
My Third Appearance on This Week in Startups
February 7, 2015