- When
- Oct 2013
- Outcome
- One of its groups was Product Hunt: Ryan Hoover started it on Linkydink on 6 November 2013 and moved it to a site of its own three weeks later.
Linkydink was the simplest way to share links with a team. You added a link by email, from a Chrome extension or on the site, and everyone subscribed to the group got one email a day with everything new. There was no feed to check and nothing to do on the site itself: the links went straight to the content. ntlk invented it and designed it. It started as one of Makeshift's hacks in October 2013 and was promoted to a product the following spring.
Every group was public, so anyone could subscribe. That is how Product Hunt began. On 6 November 2013 Ryan Hoover made a Linkydink group, had an MVP within twenty minutes, and moved it to a site of its own on 26 November. Product Hunt kept Linkydink's day-grouped layout.
The relaunch added private groups for a one-off $5.
Lineage
- Seeded Product HuntRyan Hoover started Product Hunt as a Linkydink group on 6 November 2013 — "[w]ithin 20 minutes, I had an MVP" — and moved it to a site of its own on 26 November.
Coverage
Ryan Hoover“The Wisdom Of The 20-Minute Startup”2013
“After noodling over a few ideas, I was reminded of Linkydink, a link-sharing tool by the friendly folks at Makeshift.”
Medium“The Origin of Product Hunt”2014
“The original Product Hunt was hosted on a service called Linkydink.”
Made at Makeshift.
Around the same time
- Higher resolutionsWriting · 2013
- In conversation: Max Fraser, Stef Lewandowski and Christopher RaeburnSpeaking · 2013
- Hackathon and on and onWriting · 2013
- East Dulwich ForumProjects · 2013
Earlier in projects: Shhare. Later in projects: East Dulwich Forum.