"all right so maybe we could start with this question from Stuart Powell and his question is what's your advice for non-technical founders as you are a non-technical founder and solo founder or a cofou..."

"that really demonstrated that oh wow this person he is single founder and he's non-technical but somehow this thing is growing and people seem to want it and when you're you know whether you're non-te..."

"earlier yeah and do you find that will you just launch ship like this new product or a new feature I guess yeah are people using that to beta test stuff or are these like fully functioning products ye..."

"ultimately mm-hmm and I think this also relates to another question which is which is a little blunt but Diego asked is there a business model in producthunt are you trying to go in that direction wit..."

"heavy-handed and showing pop-ups and already having stuff yeah it makes us see that from Protestant yeah yeah yes maybe maybe audio playing videos with with sound and everything about will see well yo..."

"that's awesome we own a bunch of questions around the YC application it's like application season right now oh yeah that's right yeah a few of those actually David Adom ooh I might be mispronouncing h..."

"oh yeah it's like a weird psychological tactic yeah especially if you have more multiple founders - it's the dynamic of how he speaks when and how do you make sure that you don't look like you're figh..."

"just shoving it into the pradhan community mmm however the direction and the opportunity that we were tackling with podcast specifically I think is still something I would love to see and there's a YC..."

"about podcast together now to date those exist in like on reddit to some extent and various places on the internet but there's no there's no leader in that space right now no well I think about it in ..."

"accountable I um always curious how how the behavior changes after YC because there's like there's this period of I guess you producthunt wasn't around all that long before you did YC right yeah it wa..."

"without YC oh so okay cool and so are you guys all you there were a couple questions for you about remote teams yeah what does your distribution look like are you mostly in the Bay how does it work ye..."

"understanding of like those communities hmm so I think we'll see I believe we'll see more and more distribute teams more remote workers it's sort of this movement towards that direction and and I thin..."

"yeah so it started brought in some ways started years before Prada hadn't started in some some ways you know it's before product and I mentioned earlier I was writing a lot and I would love to play wi..."

"enough people following me to say oh I know Ryan this looks cool I'm gonna try it out and so it was combination of having this first like a few hundred people to sign up which was super important and ..."

"more and more growth hmm so it had a natural kind of growth effect in the beginning and those two tactics alone we're like what led us to I don't know several thousand people in the very beginning and..."

"effective to this day no in fact makers get upset if they are posted and they don't realize it because they're like oh I I couldn't answer questions or I didn't have a chance to share it yeah so we do..."

"it's still quite international and it always kind of has been when it comes to the growth are there particular types of products that come from particular areas that you can kind of like group automat..."

"at product in some cases is like a representation of the theme at the time or the trends so if you look back a couple years ago let's say back when Secret was blowing up there were a ton of apps build..."

"mm-hmm yeah it's a that was one of my favorite companies and yeah it's amazing it emulates your voice was like 20 minutes it can do it like perfect a cursor yeah cuz it's insane yeah I was gonna defin..."

"goes so yeah we're yeah we're headed toward a world that's kind of scary it's gonna be have there been any products that launched on product hunt that didn't do well and then proceeded to do very well..."

"other piece is like product n doesn't today isn't encompassing everyone in the world either so like if you're building a product for a particular type of audience that doesn't use product in today the..."

"mean I would say that I'm engaging with the audience is something you guys do super well it's like customer service is highly yeah high up there and you're high or ities customer service is seen as li..."

"like cool things that come through YC and that's just like a tiny fraction of the world yeah do you ever have you built up like an intense stamina for like consuming new products or are there ever poi..."

"things were exploring is how do we there's certain people weirdos like me who love to consume the firehose and there's some people who just tell me like the cool one or two things this week that I sho..."

"products that week as well pretty easy takes 10 seconds to consume and a lot more consumable than like our feed of just fire hoses and stuff absurd it's crazy but it's crazy to see a grow man they're ..."

"challenging to one thing I learned early on as a product manager was I thought it was being helpful in doing more of the work so to put it make it more tangible there's a time where I made a mess a mi..."

"you're used to doing all the work in the beginning but as you grow a team you alternately have to give up work and it might feel like you're being less productive and less effective but and maybe you ..."

"name that I liked but I really like weekend fun because it has a few different meanings one it's you know product n is my full-time thing I'm super super pumped still loving what I'm doing in many way..."

"it's also more friendly than like Hoover capital or so yeah I don't know if there's a hue tight there but the best and do you have a particular thesis that you're going for I imagine there are tons of..."

"working remotely I also see voices a really interesting space it's hard to know exactly what voice will play in people's lives but inevitably voice will change the way people interact with technology ..."

"awesome thing and the reason for that is ultimately if you can recreate and build relationships and live a life that's in a better world than your own like we live in a great place and and we're very ..."

"inside of technology differently how much time do you spend in VR on an average day I actually don't spend any time I don't have any of your equipment maybe I have a Samsung headset somewhere in a gea..."

"products hmm oh so it's something I've been I've been following this base of course but I've not dug in nearly as much as some other people I actually don't well I own a little bit of file coin but I ..."