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My name's Ryan Hoover.
Iām 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
āProduct Hunt
āThe global launchpad for startups (acquired)
Weekend Fund
An early-stage venture fund backed by 350+ operator LPs
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Rolodexer
A tool to search for people that know me
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Signature Block
How to build a successful fund (50K+ subs)
Fast Round
A tool for founders to find investors that follow them on X
Hooked
How to build habit-forming products (500K+ copies sold)
Home
A visual music project with home videos from my childhood
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[TBA]
A tool for our investor friends
And more to come :)
Investments
Adaptive ā¢ AirGarage ā¢ Alt ā¢ Alter (acq. by Google) ā¢ Around (acq. by Miro) ā¢ Athena ā¢ Atlys ā¢ Blueland ā¢ Braintrust ā¢ Carrd ā¢ Certn ā¢ Deel ā¢ Diagram (acq. by Figma) ā¢ Extropic ā¢ Flyby Robotics ā¢ Function Health ā¢ GHC ā¢ Intercom ā¢ InVideo ā¢ Justpoint ā¢ Kin ā¢ Luminai ā¢ Mainframe ā¢ Mindbloom ā¢ MoonPay ā¢ Outset ā¢ Passport ā¢ Pipe ā¢ Pinwheel ā¢ Rail ā¢ Rosebud ā¢ Supergreat (acq. by Whatnot) ā¢ Superwall ā¢ System2 ā¢ thirdweb ā¢ Truemed
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And 100+ others