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Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt Events - Find and join the best tech events around the world

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Product Hunt Events is a directory of the best tech events around the world. Explore events in your city and meet fellow Product Hunt community members IRL.

If you'd like to host a Product Hunt meetup in your city, let us know.

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Ryan Hoover
Maker
Meetups have been a big part of Product Hunt since the beginning. To date we’ve seen over 500 community-led meetups around the world, from Toronto to Hong Kong. Today we’re introducing a directory of tech events, which include notable conferences like Web Summit and community-led Product Hunt meetups. I’m personally very thankful for everyone that’s taken the effort to bring the PH community together in their city. This video from Amsterdam in 2014 made me tear up. If you’re interested in hosting a meetup in your city, let us know. If you’re interested in adding your upcoming event to the directory, share your details. Over the following days we’ll be adding more meetups and events (look out for exclusive ticket discounts). You'll also be able to discover who in the PH community is interested in upcoming events. Events with a yellow highlight (e.g. RepubliCon, Web Summit, Synapse, Slush) are promoted and will be featured in the PH newsletter. In full transparency, PH Events isn’t just a way for us to encourage the community to meetup offline but it’s also a revenue channel. Feedback/questions/crazy ideas!? Share in the comments here. 😊
Chris Messina
@rrhoover will that revenue largely come through sponsored event listings or through other kinds of promotions or affiliations?
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@chrismessina we're making good money already through promoted products, jobs, and Ship. We'll be profitable this year and PH Events will help us reach that goal, but we don't expect it to be a massive money-maker.
Kunal Bhatia
This is fantastic! With the recent addition of PH Chat, I think there's a great opportunity to connect people who are interested/going to an event to network beforehand.
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@kunalslab exactly! You'll see that you can click "I'm interested" to express interest in the event and see others that have done the same. Much of what we've launched over the past few months – Chat, Makers, and now Events – is all focused on helping makers and the PH community connect in different ways.
Kunal Bhatia
@rrhoover ah ok! No one was interested in anything before. Right now, the site is struggling to mark my interests. Also, clicking anywhere on the event (including interested people) launches the event site. Perhaps showing a list of interested people (like you do with upvoters on products) and being able to launch into public chat room for that event would be helpful.
Ryan Hoover
Maker
Angela
@kunalslab @devladinci @rrhoover This was going to be my suggestion as well. I was wanting to click on the other interested individuals pics, but it just took me to the Ignite conference site. Love @kunalslab idea!
Abadesi
I'm so excited this is finally here, its so hard to keep up with all the tech and startup events happening. I end up checking a number of platforms to keep up and get a sense of what's good. Since I already spend most of my time on PH, its nice to have one less reason to leave the site 😄
Chris Messina
Congrats on the launch! Makes a lot of sense — but I do hope you're able to grow the team to continue building and maintaining the quality of all these mini-apps that support the community! Or course there have been so many event directories created in the past that have died off, it'd be a shame to see this start off strong and follow the same path... A few pie-in-the-sky suggestions: 1. Tools for organizers I can imagine that this tool could work a lot like the Upcoming pages for events... to drive demand for future events and allow that demand to shape the contours and content of the event. It already works for products, and aren't events just a time-bound product experience? 2. iCal Feed Would be nice to export this list of events (eventually with filters) via iCal feeds. Facebook and Techmeme both offer this. 3. Speaker info Would be great to see which PH Makers will be speaking at events — and to include that information on their PH or Angelist profiles. @natbat and @simonwillison's Lanyrd once served this purpose, but it appears that Eventbrite shut it down after its acquisition. 4. Presentations There are existing services like Speakerdeck, Speakerdex, Slideshare, etc, that allow you to publish your decks, but it'd be cool if there were such an archive of events on PH to also include media from the events, including presentations. 5. Action links / Ticketing As Facebook moves to make Pages more action-centric, it seems like PH Event pages could be similarly action-oriented. Granted, the current release is an MVP, it would make this feature more useful to carve out specific event-only actions like getting tickets (handled by a third party like Eventbrite, etc). 6. Learn from Upcoming.org et al I would have hoped that @waxpancake's Upcoming.org would have lived to see another day, and indeed it's returned, but just doesn't seem to have the same community traction that Facebook Events and Eventbrite now have. It is, at least, open source.
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@chrismessina always love and appreciate your feedback, Chris. 🙏🏼 We launched Events in its most minimal state (as you can see) so that we can start getting feedback and ideas from the community to expand next. Comments like this are gold. 1. Love the idea of offering more tooling for organizers. We don't want to replace Eventbrite, Facebook events, and other ticketing tools, but we could do a better job of equipping meetup hosts with software to attract attendees within the PH community. 2. The iCal feed would be a strong retention hook, although I'm unsure how many people would go through the effort. We need to provide a significant amount of value for people to convert, imho. I'll think on this and ideas welcome! 3. Speaker info is a great idea and would enable us to tap into the PH graph. If John Doe is speaking and I follow John Doe, I'd love to know that. I'd also like to add the hosts more explicitly here.
Chris Messina
@rrhoover yeah, I agree that other platforms are better suited for dealing with ticketing and event management, etc. I'm particularly interested in how Product Hunt could treat Events as special kinds of Products — hooking into the existing graph and highlighting relevant activities from event organizers, presenters, and attendees. It'd be interesting to see products that I've upvoted that will be represented at events too... like you can imagine I'd get notified about Slack's annual developer event if I've upvoted any Slack products, etc. Re iCal — seems like it's a relatively cheap feature to build... I subscribe to my Facebook Events and Techmeme events in Google Calendar and Fantastical — so I always have some visibility about upcoming events from those sources w/o having to remember to check the web to see their listings. It also makes it easy for me to copy event details to my calendar and then invite people to it who don't use those platforms. Anyway, just a vote for that feature.
Gil Akos
Super cool! Fills a needed niche in the plethora of tech events. I think the key to making this awesome will be event curation and Hunter connection IRL. There are so many events and meetups that it's hard to know in advance which will be valuable to attend. In addition to upvote style "I'm interested," some sorting would be helpful. Also, once Hunters are attending an event, it'd be great to be able to connect with them there and have that be enabled by the Events. For instance, TechCrunch Disrupt is fun but huge - I am always looking for ways to engage others with similar interests at events like that. Doing so through PH Events would be a perfect way to do that.
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@gil_akos we're considering adding collections of events that could include a curated list of SXSW events or talks to make it easier for people in the PH community to meet at these larger conferences.
Gil Akos
@rrhoover Cool!
Dave Poly
Keep the features coming, Ryan!
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@dave_poly what feature(s) would you like us to build next? 😊
Dave Poly
@rrhoover Hmm... - Expand the Ask product to include Polls and Feedback. I'm thinking about the community helping you decide on a product name or logo. Also help you validate a product idea/market problem. I know there's some of that in the Ship product as well, though. - A blog-like product per user. Submit articles for other to read and engage with. Maybe the topic is directed every week or month by a PH editor in order to see different perspectives and advice on the same problem. Also avoids people just copying what they've already written on Medium and a personal blog. Would be a great way to grow clout, "thought leadership" and a following on here. - Mentors. I'm sure there's a wide range of talent and experience on here. Being able to find a Mentor or be a Mentor to somebody else would be cool. - An Academy to learn how to build a product. Maybe contributed by the community or by PH editors. Courses like "learn Swift and build your first product." or "Learn how to get a Shopify store up in less than an hour. etc" - Lunch and Learns. Take experts from the PH community and have them host a live webinar-like video presentation/chat on the topic they're an expert at. Their product remains out of it until the end. They're just there to help the community learn about digital marketing, SEO, lead generation, sales tactics, etc. - Here's a whacky one but maybe something in the health and wellness arena. If you own a startup, you most likely struggle with work-life balance, stress, bad diet, etc. Something that tackles those issues.
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@dave_poly wow, love this. Thanks, Dave!
Roland Clifford
I Think Great Idea, lets go do it)
Nikolay Siabrenko
Beautiful and simple 👍 All in one place for tech enthusiasts. Now it's even easier to find tech events in my city.
Gavrilo Gavrilovic
Nice initiative, it is nice to have one place where you can look up for upcoming conferences. I just would like to have filter for event type e.g design and to see all conferences related to design.
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@ggavrilo yes! That's coming soon (hopefully this week). Soon you'll be able to explore events on specific topics (e.g. blockchain, inclusion in tech, VR/AR, design). Any other ideas/feedback?
Stef Lewandowski
Ace! Do you have a way to submit events programmatically? I could maybe add something to Attending.io for promoting tech meetups on PH?
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@stef as with most things we build, it wanted to keep it simple so we could get something out quickly. Currently we manually enter all events in our admin interface, but I'd love to explore automation or at least making it self-serve for people to submit their event.
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