Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt - www.producthunt.com - San Francisco/Remote - Lead iOS Engineer

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Imagine if reddit and the appstore would have a baby - that's Product Hunt

Mobile will soon be our most important platform and in 5 years from now we wont "install" apps. We wont "open" apps. How will our app look then? We are looking for someone who wants to have a say in this future.

The role is essentially an hybrid between Product Owner of the mobile app and the Lead Engineer that brings in structure to the team.

Given that the role has a big part in product design, it's easier if this person is in SF. That being said the majority of our team is remote (no further than Eastern Europe). Consider also applying if you are "close enough to SF" that you could come by regularly.

There are more details on the role here: https://angel.co/product-hunt/jobs/47947-lead-ios-engineer

But in a nutshell:

* Strong opinion on codestyle, structure, automated processes, product building

* Being able to learn from and enable others

Everyone in the team works quite autonomous and we value maker craftman ship highly.

https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/540950035827916800 (we also do livestreamings to brainstorm with the community on upcoming or about-to-release features)

https://medium.com/on-startups/the-artifacts-of-product-hunt-11682e9e01dd

https://medium.com/@rrhoover/we-fucked-up-9163151c9166

To apply…

I have been in a similar situation. I was a co-founder at a company, I was not joining with technical skill. I had more marketing and business development background. I had some knowledge but was just starting out.

The opportunity was fantastic and I learned a lot (things todo and not todo). However, as you stated I felt the exact same things you did:

A. Learning Was beginning to stagnate - I was no longer able to continually learn and develop.

B. Company was not growing and my confidence in the rest of the team plummeted. We were focused on the wrong things and promising things to customers and partners that we knew we could not deliver on.

These two things alone where enough for me to know that my time was done. There is a post on Medium, "Rate-of-learning: the most valuable startup compensation" (link at the end) this is why I had to move on. I knew that for me to continue progressing and learning the best option for me was to leave.

In regards to equity and raising capital. I learned two things (1) people can become extremely greedy when equity and raising capital come about and (2) greed can easily lead to ethics and values being compromised. I don't know your exact situation but I would keep these things in mind.

Hopefully this helps. Best of luck!

Link: https://medium.com/@KyleTibbitts/rate-of-learning-the-most-valuable-startup-compensation-56dddc17fa42

PS: This is another post that may help you by Ryan Hoover. Great post!…

This comment saddens me.

Ryan may be "in the circle" now, but it's not like he had a rich VC uncle. It's not nepotism; he had no connections when he started out. Product Hunt didn't succeed because he's "in the circle", he's "in the circle" because Product Hunt succeeded.

Ryan is one of the nicest, most genuine person I've met, and he worked hard to get where he is. He built a great team and a product that people love. My company is where it is in large part to PH, and I'm thankful they exist.

(More: https://medium.com/@rrhoover/from-rejection-to-product-hunt-2127f5973679)