Over the years several students and young, ambitious people have asked me how to break into tech. Everyone has a different path so I'm curious to learn how others landed their first job in this field. Excluding many tech-related side projects in my youth (selling electronics on eBay, modding Xbox's, building websites, etc.), my first real career in tech was an unpaid social media intern at a gaming startup called InstantAction during my senior year at the University of Oregon. I discovered the opportunity through a marketing club I was a part of and was fortunate to land the role. I was such a noob but learned so much. That led to a full-time job after I graduated where I eventually was promoted into product management. The key learning for me was the importance of getting real-world experience asap (ideally before or during college) and building good relationships (by doing great work) with your teammates. At InstantAction I met Andy Yang who eventually recruited me to join another startup in San Francisco. My life changed after that.
I'm working on something fun for Product Hunt Meetups around the world in January 2020. If you'd like to host or join a meetup in your city please fill out this survey which only has three questions so I can start connecting you with other makers close by. Here is the survey. Thanks
Hi Makers! This thread is dedicated to you if you are: (1) launching soon or recently launched (2) looking for beta users (3) asking for feedback on a landing page First, start by helping out another maker. You can check out their launch, give their product a review or share a comment on their launch post. Once you've helped someone else out, share your product link here and BE SPECIFIC about who your target audience is and how we can help.
What are you building for it? Do you need support, feedback or even find a co-founder? Post about it here and reminder submissions close this week so make sure to get yours in for a chance to win some great prizes
Hello, Makers :) Very often I see in tweets/articles that people recommend building products in public but how to do this? Can you give some tips on how to start to tell about your building process in the public if you have 0 followers?
Whenever I create a new profile on a platform - as I did with Twitter over ten years ago - I go straight to who I already know that's on the platform, friends, acquaintances, etc. Then I'll look for notable folks who work in a space I'm interested in. I also used to do things like follow-for-follow years ago on Twitter, but I found that I'd be following folks whose feeds I wasn't very interested in. Now I get told often by folks I mentor: 'I've set up Twitter to network in tech but I have no followers.' How did you get your first followers?
We've had hundreds of you say you want to host a meetup in your city on January 28th 2020, the same day we are hosting our LA meetup. Thanks for your energy and excitement! Say hi to each other here. You can view an onboarding video conference here.
Hi Makers! This thread is dedicated to you if you are: (1) launching soon or recently launched (2) looking for beta users (3) asking for feedback on a landing page First, start by helping out another maker. You can check out their launch, give their product a review or share a comment on their launch post. Once you've helped someone else out, share your product link here and BE SPECIFIC about who your target audience is and how we can help.
Hi Makers! If you are: (1) launching soon or recently launched (2) looking for beta users (3) asking for feedback on a landing page First, start by helping out another maker (check out their launch, give a review or share a comment on their post), then share your product link here and BE SPECIFIC about who your target audience is and how we can help.
Hello I think it's the best feeling for a Maker when they make their first sale, like when your child attends their first class How long did it take you to reach this goal?
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This is a tool for makers that publish their projects on Product Hunt.
Upvote Bell can show realtime notification for new upvotes for projects that published in the last 48 hours. Every project that you publish on Product Hunt, have own page where you can look upvote chart, a list of people who upvoted project and last comment activity.
Trackly - it's Telegram bot which can send notifications about new upvotes and comments on any project from Product Hunt which you subscribe. Just send a link to the project on PH and bot start track it for you.
Now you do not need to refresh the page every minute to see the new number of upvotes.
