- A Hopeful Applicant's Y Combinator Experience (text, 2011)
- Product Hunt Began as an Email List (text, 2013)
- The 20-Minute MVP (text, 2014)
- YC + PH (text, 2014)
- Making Product Hunt (text, 2014)
- How We Got Our First 2,000 Users Doing Things That Don't Scale (text, 2014)
- 3 Pieces of Advice for YC Applicants (text, 2014)
- "Should I apply to YC?" (text, 2014)
- How To Build World's #1 Product Launch Platform with a Globally Distributed Team: An Interview With the Founder of Product Hunt (text, 2018)
- 5 Years of Product Hunt (text, 2018)
- How we made our first dollar at Product Hunt (text, 2018)
- Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell (video, 2019)
- Ryan Hoover on Startups, Success and Staying Curious (text, 2020)

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