“The app was designed and built by Chad on our team to give us an opportunity to surface different types of content and stories that wouldn’t necessarily inside Product Hunt today.” Sip already has 3000 people signed up for its beta. Sip could become their gateway into the fold than trying to dig news out of the Q&A on a Product Hunt page. But the top stories about tech’s titans, our social media society, and the hottest new apps have become must-read news for many. Not everyone gravitates towards the site to discover the latest beta tests, hackathon projects, Chrome extensions, and fledgling startups. Like Reddit, Hoover sees Product Hunt as a community first, though one that “has always played a role in delivering news”.ĭoubling down here could unlock new demographics.
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With Facebook purposefully reducing the amount of news surfaced by its feed, Twitter full of bots and trolls, and Google Reader gone, people need better ways of keeping up with the world. We don’t have plans to monetize Sip in the short term as we focus on growing its user base.”
“As I shared earlier in the year with the community, we’re aiming toward profitability and have made some great progress through various initiatives, but Sip is not one of them.
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It’s essentially a user growth play, rather than a revenue driver for the startup bought by AngelList for around $20 million in 2016. “Our ultimate goal is to create an experience people want to come back to every day that might appeal to those that don’t already use Product Hunt” Hoover explains.
Skewing trendy, not wonky, you’ll find Sip highlighting 2018’s most innovative companies, Elon Musk selling flamethrowers, or Uber’s new bus killer. Sip distills the day’s big headlines into a set of Twitter Moments-esque slideshows delivered via silent notification at 5pm.Ĭombining explanations, commentary tweets, links to news outlets, Product Hunt pages, and polls, Sip offers a bite-sized alternative to long-winded articles. So instead of a constant stream of fresh stories and alerts, Product Hunt today is releasing what’s essentially a tech industry newsletter in iOS and Android form. “We didn’t want to create another app thirsty for attention” writes Product Hunt CEO Ryan Hoover.
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