For years, there s been one place where big-name tech products could enjoy a second life, albeit without most or all of the people that got them there: Bending Spoons.
The Italian company, which is valued at $11B and reports 300M+ monthly active users, acquired Eventbrite for $500M this week.
I noticed this question in one of my discussions and thought it would make sense to share my approach if I were to get in touch with more active users of this platform.
Here s how I would find them and connect with them (via X, LinkedIn or other channel) You can find them :
Check people who log in daily (Streaks).
Look at users who actively comment under discussions and launches.
Connect with active hunters.
You can try reaching out to the internal Product Hunt team.
Explore WA, Telegram, and Signal PH groups where people are active and reach out to them.
Check users who launch a few days before you they re likely to put effort into the platform too, so they still have that "launching vibe".
Working towards launching my app. It's too early for meaningful data, growth trends, or any real signal on what's working, and I'm okay with that.
What I've noticed though is that the internet is full of milestone posts. First 100 users, $10k MRR, viral launches. And when you're pre-data, it's easy to accidentally use someone else's month 18 as your week 1 benchmark.
I'm not losing sleep over it, but it did get me thinking about how founders define meaningful progress before the numbers are there to tell the story.
My current approach is staying focused on qualitative signals are the right people finding it, are early users actually engaging, are conversations happening. But I'm curious what others have done:
Hi Product Hunt community! My name s Tikue, co-founder of Kudos, and I m so excited to announce that we re LIVE on Product Hunt! After spending several years helping build Google Pay and Affirm, my co-founder and I came to the realization that card issuers make credit cards unnecessarily complicated. So over the past year, we brought on a team many from Google Pay and PayPal Honey, and built Kudos. Our mission is to make every purchase as delightful as possible by streamlining the checkout process and taking the guesswork out of credit card rewards and benefits. Kudos is a free shopping extension that helps you pick the best card at checkout on over 2 million sites and doubles your credit card rewards across 15,000 partners. As this is our first time launching on the platform, your support means the world to us! Let us know what you think and drop us a comment below. Link: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
A bit about my experience: Apart from a few pivots, I have worked with food for around 7 years, I have left the food industry to work at Product Hunt but it still has a massive place in my heart. Within my experience, I trained as a cook (Italian), a bread baker and during my Italian training I also was a pizzaiolo Currently I'm teaching myself Indian cuisine, which is probably the most exciting thing for me right now. I also cook at the Product Hunt off sites for the team Ask me anything you want about cooking, the industry, technique, the culture within a kitchen, anything really!
