Ryan Hoover

Ryan Hoover

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Founder of Product Hunt & Weekend Fund
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👏 11 day streak

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Poep/poeChris Messina

3mo ago

Poe launches leaderboard tracking usage of top AI models

Pretty cool to see their rise and fall over time.

Ryan Hoover

3mo ago

Fish Audio S1 - Expressive Voice Cloning and Text-to-Speech

Fish Audio S1 is the most expressive and emotionally rich TTS model—creating lifelike voices that capture emotion, rhythm, and nuance. Clone any voice in 10 seconds, preserving accent, tone, and speaking habits with unmatched realism.
Ryan Hoover

4mo ago

Trace 3D - Manage your 3D content production workflow in one place

Trace is a production tracking tool built for 3D teams. Assign tasks, review in real time, and design custom workflows—all in one place. No more juggling 5+ apps—Trace keeps your pipeline clean, fast, and connected.

I got a feeling I’m gonna hit $1000 MRR today or tomorrow 😏

I got a feeling I m gonna hit $1K MRR today or tomorrow

How should I celebrate??

Some Product Hunt launches that IPO'd

@itsmechaseb pointed this out, but here are 8 companies that launched on Product Hunt that went on to IPO:

  • @hims

  • @Slack

  • @Figma

  • @Bumble

  • @Coinbase

  • @Amplitude

  • @Lemonade

  • @Robinhood

Ryan Hoover

6mo ago

OpenArt One-Click Video Story - Turn anything into ready-to-post videos with one click

Have an idea, script, beat, or a favorite character? OpenArt turns it into a visual story — complete with motion, music, and a narrative arc. One click.

What's the weirdest thing you've asked AI to do? Examples welcome 🤖

I've recently gotten into training grip strength and since it s a new area of strength training for me, I ve been asking Claude a lot of weird questions about training and recovery techniques. So now, my chat history is a ton of stuff about work with the occasional odd question about how often I should be using extensor bands haha

What are some of the strangest things you've asked AI to help with? Did it actually help?

What's the weirdest thing you've asked AI to do? Examples welcome 🤖

I've recently gotten into training grip strength and since it s a new area of strength training for me, I ve been asking Claude a lot of weird questions about training and recovery techniques. So now, my chat history is a ton of stuff about work with the occasional odd question about how often I should be using extensor bands haha

What are some of the strangest things you've asked AI to help with? Did it actually help?

Superhuman acquired by Grammarly!

Congrats to @rahulvohra and the team!

https://www.reuters.com/business...

Gabe Perez

8mo ago

AI Hardware Design - should we bring back early 2000's design?

When it comes down to hardware my X feed is filled with two types of designs.

  • Retro/nostalgic 2000's hardware that was defined by Gameboy translucent purples, Colorful macs, Sony's beautiful eclectic electronics, and embracing colors that pop like pink, purple, and orange.

  • Sleek, modern, simple designs like the @Humane AI pin, @Limitless, @Friend, or the @omi.

I personally miss the fun days where consumer tech was wacky. Think Tamagotchi, Mini Clips, PSPs, and clear-shelled devices. I do see some like @Burner that have brought back some fun design but I'm curious... what does everyone think?
Should we bring back the weird or embrace the sleek, simple, and modern?

Ryan Hoover

8mo ago

YC's latest Request for Startups

YC published a list of themes they want to invest in:

  1. Full-stack AI Companies

  2. More Design Founders

  3. Voice AI

  4. AI for Scientific Advancement

  5. AI Personal Assistant

  6. Healthcare AI

  7. AI Personal Tutor for Everyone

  8. Software Tools To Make Robots

  9. The Future of Education

  10. AI Residential Security

  11. Internal Agent Builder

  12. AI Research Labs

  13. AI Voice Assistants for Email

  14. AI for Personal Finance

Of course there are many projects and startups that launched on Product Hunt in each of these categories.

Request for product: voice-based dev environment

Here's my hacked-together, messy, voice-based dev environment:

  1. Voice-driven loop with screen-shotting so the LLM in the loop can see what's in my terminal and editor. The prompt varies depending on what I'm trying to drive with this loop.

  2. A few tool definitions that give read access to files and URLs.

  3. A tool the LLM can send a block of output to that generates keyboard events, so the LLM can drive any editor/terminal.

  4. A separate process watching a directory and constantly making LLM-driven git commits. (git autosave).

I have some pieces of this running most of the time. But I'm lazy, and doing other stuff, and I also try to use a variety of editors and tools, to see what's good lately. Which ... no stability, so my hacked-together stuff is always broken.

I don't want to replace @Windsurf / @Cursor / Claude code. A seriously good agent and expert-system dev toolkit is a lot of work.

Request for product: voice-based dev environment

Here's my hacked-together, messy, voice-based dev environment:

  1. Voice-driven loop with screen-shotting so the LLM in the loop can see what's in my terminal and editor. The prompt varies depending on what I'm trying to drive with this loop.

  2. A few tool definitions that give read access to files and URLs.

  3. A tool the LLM can send a block of output to that generates keyboard events, so the LLM can drive any editor/terminal.

  4. A separate process watching a directory and constantly making LLM-driven git commits. (git autosave).

I have some pieces of this running most of the time. But I'm lazy, and doing other stuff, and I also try to use a variety of editors and tools, to see what's good lately. Which ... no stability, so my hacked-together stuff is always broken.

I don't want to replace @Windsurf / @Cursor / Claude code. A seriously good agent and expert-system dev toolkit is a lot of work.

Nika

10mo ago

Which personalities would spice up this platform?

I found faces of famous personalities on Product Hunt.

For example,

SnoopDogg

steve beyatte

10mo ago

Shout out your favorite new product you absolutely love using (that’s not yours)

What s a recent product you ve started using that you absolutely love?

Maybe it solved a real problem, has great UX, or just brings you joy every time you open it. Bonus points if it launched here on Product Hunt.

Dribbble is pivoting from an advertising-supported community to a revenue-sharing marketplace

These are some big changes! What do you guys think about this kind of model?

Dribbble is transforming its business model to help professional designers generate more client work by implementing a new policy that requires all transactions to occur on their platform, aiming to create a safer and more efficient marketplace for design services.

Jake Crump

10mo ago

Digg is coming back - With Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian

Well I definitely didn't see this coming. Digg is coming back!

https://x.com/digg/status/189724...

What's your favorite defunct consumer social app? (and what does that say about you?)

@rrhoover 's comment on @kwindla 's "Happy Birthday, Photoshop" thread got me thinking:
"I wish Product Hunt was around longer so we had more nerdy, tech archeology to explore."
The products that made an impression on us, even if they didn't make it, often inspire the next generation of apps. Also, there's something interesting about a product that you resonated with and you thought should have been huge but didn't quite make it. It's an opportunity for reflection on maybe what was missing or how your values may differ from the world or how that product may have been a glimpse of the future and ahead of its time. I subscribe to the idea that most startup ideas will happen eventually, but timing matters. You need to see into the future, but if you see too far into the future, it may take a while for that to become reality.
For me, there are lots of contenders in the consumer social space. I really loved @Clubhouse, especially in the early days of the pandemic. I thought @Airchat had a fascinating interface (twitter...but audio?). I also thought the authenticity and light attention requirements of @BeReal. was compelling. But maybe my favorite more niche product is @Honk by Benji Taylor.
Honk was real-time messaging, one-on-one, without a log. You could see people typing in realtime. You could spam emojis, and your swarm of emojis would battle comically with your friend's swarm. It was silly, and beautifully designed, and a valiant effort at breaking through our cultural tendency to regress to boring async chat.
There's also something really cool about seeing somebody type in real time. It's like seeing them think! One magic moment is when you start typing and before you can finish the idea, the other person's understood the idea and is responding. It's a funny feeling.
Plus their Twitter account was genius. It would often just tweet "Honk"
What's your favorite social app that doesn't exist anymore? What did you take away from it?
@rrhoover I'm guessing you have too many to count. @bernatfortet @kwindla @gabe