Hey! Dru here. Founder of Trends.vc. We help entrepreneurs discover new markets and ideas. In February 2017, with $250,000 in savings and no plan other than taking a mini-retirement, I quit my job as a big-data engineer. I spent the next three years traveling and learning, practicing Jiu-Jitsu, doing improv, and building products on the side. On February 10th, 2020 I posted the first-ever Trends Report, focusing on Problem, Players, Predictions, Opportunities, Haters, Solutions, and Key Lessons.Since then Trends.vc reached 48,000+ subscribers and 1,000+ Trends Pro Members. Happy to answer any questions on topics we've covered or the journey so far. AMA!
Hello, PH! Share your goals for this week (any number you may have) so the community can provide some advice or motivation! I'll start: 1. Polish some pages for my latest project
2. Publish my second blog post
3. Update the GUI for the service itself
I was shocked to find out that so many people in my office are skipping breakfast! I cannot concentrate if I am hangry before lunch. Do you eat breakfast? If so, what do you eat?
Value prop roll-call! Explain your product in one sentence in a way that will have your ICP (ideal customer profile) asking for more. How can you expect your business development team, marketing team, or product team to do it if you can't do this? My working value prop for Accord below (If you're my ICP, what do you think?) Win more deals faster by guiding prospects through the buying journey. What's yours ?
Everyone here has a primary skill or a field of knowledge they're versed in. What I'm interested in is are you working on sharpening any additional skills or are you committed to working on what you're confident with. In my case, development was where I started many years ago, but currently, I'm trying to improve my writing skills!
New year, new team, new features! We are growing fast at Product Hunt (see: Prologue and our job openings), which means we re going to have a lot more cool stuff for you to play with this year as we expand Product Hunt into THE place to learn about new and established products. Here are some of the most recent features we ve released.
New topics We ve updated our topics hierarchy to better organize products. Makers will have the ability to choose from new topics when they submit a product (or if they edit an old product). We will make topic browsing and selection easier soon too when we release new display and picker components.
Modernizing the site We made big changes to the look and feel last year, but we still want to give a fresh coat of paint (and performance updates) to a few more pages. We ve released changes to the Founders Club and Terms and Conditions pages, and we will continue with updates to profiles, notifications, jobs, and this very changelog page.
You might also like We ve made it easier to discover related products in the context of what you re already browsing on the homepage. This update extends the lifespan of a product beyond its launch day. What began as a small experiment received a lot of positive feedback (and data), so we ve decided to release it to everyone.
Search improvements We are upgrading our search algorithm to make it easier to find your favorite products on Product Hunt. Need help finding the perfect tool for the job? We got you! Keep an eye out for even more search capabilities in the near future.
Golden Kitty Awards These don t just happen on their own. Aside from a monumental effort from our community team, the engineering team put in a ton of work to make this event happen. If you weren t able to check out the live event, you can watch it on YouTube or browse the list of all finalists and winners on the blog.
Granted, we're a community of folks across timezones around the world, but I've always been curious: When do most of us swing by Product Hunt? Is PH part of a daily habit? Do you just leave it open in a tab and check it throughout the day? Thanks for taking a moment to respond. And if one of the responses doesn't match your use case, please let folks know about your PH habit in the comments. EXTRA CREDIT: In addition to sharing when you visit PH, feel free to share your timezone/GMT offset in the comments.
