Ryan Hoover

@rrhoover

Founder of @ProductHunt. Investor at @WeekendFund. Say hi!

Miami / SF / NYC

ryanhoover.me

Joined Apr 2008

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I've never been a fan of whiteboarding a startup From @paulg's latest essay

YC's built more founder tools over the last ~year. They built tools to share decks, schedule pitch meetings, distribute SAFEs, and more. It's smart. This vertically integrated stack simplifies things for founders and feeds data into the system.

I recently ordered a $1,200 catered dinner from DoorDash. A few days later they sent me an unexpected $50 gift card. Brilliant. You know office managers are pocketing it.

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Insane week for a16z infra: Cursor exits for $60B, largest private acquisition ever OpenRouter exits for ~$8B, reportedly And this is how...

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Fun way to nudge early adopters into evangelists. We did this in the early days at Product Hunt. https://twitter.com/kevinefiles/status/20...

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Even Spotify is building agentic dev tools (via Product Hunt)

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Low key big win for Quiet Capital. They doubled down in every round. Owned 35%+. Will return 10-figures to LPs. https://twitter.com/lisasu/...

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It took longer to submit the Chrome extension than to build it

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Claude Code clearly padding when it replies: "Implementation estimated to take 3 weeks" AI, they're just like us.

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We just raised a $25M fund. Now we're hiring a Partner at Weekend Fund. More founders are starting companies and shipping than ever before....

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It's never been easier to become an "expert" on <insert topic>. Here's the framework @SandyBKwon created using AI: https://sandybkwon.subs...

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Here’s @SandyBKwon’s AI chief of staff stack: • Hermes for the harness • Telegram is the interface • Grok for voice commands • Gmail with a...

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I don’t understand the argument that LLMs can’t come up with original ideas. “It’s just trained on existing data, predicting the next token...

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Building something new. If you're an early-stage investor, meet 5+ founders/week, and write <$500K checks, DM me. :) (will delete this twe...

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Underrated benefit of designing in Claude Code: Because it has access to the db it can find patterns in real world data to present informat...

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YC just launched Paxel. Smart way to get signal on who's legit.

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How to get rich: 1. Join OpenAI or Anthropic two years ago 2. Slang retatrutide via AI docfluencers 3. Start a photo booth in NYC

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Many "best practices" are rightfully being questioned (from @dzohrob's re-introduction to Nori)

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Announcing Weekend Fund IV, backed by operators and founders (and maybe you). When we raised Weekend Fund III, we did something different....

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Is anyone building something to make it easier to manage write-offs for angel investments?

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