Talk:Product Hunt

Some recent edits appear to be be by a person with a COI according information claimed in the summaries. While some content additions appear generally good faith there is a possibility some content is non-neutral.Djm-leighpark (talk) 05:36, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

Producthunt looks like malware to me. It installed itself (as a Chrome extension perhaps) without my consent, and I cannot delete it. They say I can delete my account, but I have to give them permission to my Google account first. DaveCW (talk) 12:54, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

:Bitdefender blocked me when I tried to go to one of their self-published web pages that was being used here as a reference. Largoplazo (talk) 00:24, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Multiple members of the Product Hunt team have gone on to start venture capital funds. In August 2017, Product Hunt's founder and CEO Ryan Hoover announced a $3M Angel Fund called The Weekend Fund.{{Cite news|url=https://mashable.com/2017/09/21/ryan-hoover-weekend-fund-vc-firm-launch/|title=Silicon Valley's resident nice guy is ready to try venture capital|last=Flynn|first=Kerry|work=Mashable|access-date=2018-09-08|language=en}} In March 2018, Product Hunt's first employee Erik Torenberg announced Village Global, a $100M venture fund backed by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Microsoft's Bill Gates, Google's Eric Schmidt, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, and others.{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/16/village-global-fund/|title=Village Global raises $100M seed scout fund from Zuck, Bezos…|work=TechCrunch|access-date=2018-09-08|language=en-US}} In April 2018, Product Hunt's marketing lead Niv Dror announced Shrug Capital, a $3M venture fund that focuses on consumer investments.{{Cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/shrug-capital-152383699-8b13a765-14b0-4228-92b2-8a02ff2c2e53.html|title=Niv Dror launches ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Capital|website=Axios|language=en|access-date=2018-09-08}} In April 2019, Product Hunt's editorial lead Nick Abouzeid joined Shrug Capital as a Partner, the fourth Product Hunt employee to join a venture capital fund.{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/ShrugCap/status/1112786276699308038|title=Nick Abouzeid joins ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Capital|website=Twitter|language=en|access-date=2019-04-01}}

I've moved the above section to the talk page for further inspection. Promotional, it just doesn't seem to "belong." DavidWestT (talk) 14:13, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

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