The future of live entertainment is participatory, and looks a lot like the past. — HQ Trivia launched in October of 2017, and in the weeks that followed, proceeded to hit record breaking numbers week after week. For ~72 hours, this record what quite the achievement for the live trivia app. To put in perspective what 880,000+ players actually means, BuzzFeed’s Exploding Watermelon had…

Instagram innovates via Snapchat, and Snapchat innovates through acquisition. It was recently revealed that Snapchat’s (fantastic) new feature, Snap Map, is based off of social map app Zenly! Which Snap bought back in May for ~$250M to $350M. 😲 Zenly co-founder Antoine Martin laid out the company’s mission in their…

We’re here to innovate on the infrastructure of innovation. There is so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people who fund that innovation, but there is very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself. — Naval Ravikant This was the most memorable line from the AngelList…

Back in April, after months of trying to get the Product Hunt office a VR headset, I was excited to learn that Mark Zuckerberg was going to give us one, as a gift. In the weeks that followed… I tried every app in the Oculus Store that looked interesting…

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Why Balaji Srinivasan should lead the FDA in the new Trump administration — There is a lot of excitement in Silicon Valley about Balaji S. Srinivasan being the leading candidate to run the FDA. Unlike most of Trump’s other nominations, Balaji is undeniably qualified for the position. In a recent episode of the TwentyMinuteVC, Balaji talked about how regulatory risk posed the…

It’s that time of the year, the Class of 2016 is graduating and the college commencement addresses are pouring in. …

Mo Slowmography is a really fun app. The first time I tried it was the day the “Gravity Waves” were discovered, so I played around with it, which led to this Vine: Today they launched on Product Hunt, and I took a GIF Walk around San Francisco (because I…

I went from being jobless without background in tech to Product Hunt, one of the hottest startups in the valley. — The past 12-months have been eventful. Going into the Christmas period I suddenly found myself out of a job as it became clear that my time at DataFox was coming to an end, and I started thinking about what I wanted to do next. The New Space industry that SpaceX…