Sarah Wright

One of the first things I did when I started at Product Hunt 3 yrs ago was change the way we do subject lines. A lesson I learned from @MorningBrew (I think @businessbarista) short short short This grew the daily newsletter open rate from 12% to 25% in just a couple months (and kept going to 45% with other strategies). Here are a few of the best-performing ones Adobe 💔 Figma ChatGPT killer? Bye, Siri Wunderlist is back Find My for pets 5 million sales in 5 days Tip: Intrigue, but don't clickbait. Challenge yourself to tell the story in 3-5 words.

This is all I can think about. It’s all I’ve been able to think about since my boy turned 1 and gets closer to school.

@PaulSkallas nah, a longstanding joke among writers is how many of us are gluttons for the em dash. like maybe AI does to, but if it does it’s because it’s trained on human writing.

@julesterpak 💯

It’s particularly insufferable to keep up with the tech industry lately. The evolution, the leadership interviews, etc… it at least used to spark curiosity and inspiration - lately it just feels stagnant/redundant, obnoxious, and like a sucking each other off dork fest

@nytcooking I did not expect your 2025 calendar to be sold out everywhere. 🥺 Am I SOL?

@austin_rief Another vote for @adrianalfieri

Who is the best B2B content marketing agency? One of my portfolio companies is looking to hire one.

@gorilla_worf @FranklinMatija @PaulSkallas Also from what we learned living there, people on a UK salary live with a bunch of roommates or friends much longer than in the US. Still I couldn’t do it! Lost my US based job during covid and lasted 6 weeks working for a UK based job on a peanuts salary. They def don’t save!

@gorilla_worf @FranklinMatija @PaulSkallas Craft burgers maybe but most people are living off a fiver meal from Tesco or M&S - a concept that doesn’t really exist in the US. The Londoners buying expensive meals are the rich or expats like my husband and who earned a US based salary living in London.

Boy, I don't get London. How can it be at New York prices but salaries are half of New York? No one is saving any money, I assume?

@syswarren 💯

I thought I knew what the word "busy" meant... and I became a parent.

@5harath @mubashariqbal @GuestLabAI @yashbagal @itsameandrea Yesss 👏👏 congrats!

Small news 🚨 @mubashariqbal and I have been sitting on this for almost a month now but finally the day is here to share the news with y'all @GuestLabAI has been acquired by @yashbagal and @itsameandrea 🤝 It's been a wild 12 months working on GuestLab. I must admit we had some highs and some lows during this time, but I learned a ton and it's been a blast serving you. We are fortunate to have amazing podcasters like @lennysan, @arvidkahl, @mijustin, @chenellco, @jposhaughnessy and many more as early believers and paying customers 🙏🏼 I also want to massively thank each one of you for giving GuestLab a try, sharing feedback and supporting us. We couldn't have done anything without you ❤️ I'm super confident that Yash and Andrea will take GuestLab to the next level 💪🏼 As for me, I'm stoked to share that I'm working on a new startup idea. Follow me for more updates! Again, I'm very grateful for your time, help and anything and everything you did for me and GuestLab. Signing out for the last time ✌🏼

Was chatting with a well-known founder yesterday about the "founder mode" discussion. We were both wondering if people would misinterpret it, and undervalue the importance of hiring great leaders. Steve Jobs, the canonical example of "founder mode", was also gifted at identifying stellar leaders, without whom no great organization gets built. (And we're lucky to have many at Stripe.) To the extent that there's an ostensible tension here (founder-mode micromanagement vs the classic view that one should focus on enablement), this founder pointed out that the lens of domain-specific judgment helps reconcile the dichotomy. • You need to have excellent judgment in your problem area. • You need to recognize the importance of good judgment as a phenomenon. • You need to demand it in others. He argued that many companies and founders fail at (2) and (3). That is, individuals can be effective "people managers", or have strong resumes, or whatever, but just not be deep enough in their domains to be right on the substantive merits of questions within their purview (and unable to recursively detect/insist on that correctness in others, or to elevate and prize it when they see people who do it well). In this conception of things, leaders in "founder mode" naturally enable others when those others have great judgment in their areas. Interestingly, this HBR piece describes how Apple differs from the mainstream by doing exactly this: "Its fundamental belief is that those with the most expertise and experience in a domain should have decision rights for that domain. [...] Apple is not a company where general managers oversee managers; rather, it is a company where experts lead experts." hbr.org/2020/11/how-ap…. It's clear from discussions with leaders at SpaceX and Tesla that @elonmusk's companies do this as well. So, anyway, I wonder if some substantial part of "founder mode" hinges on "building an org around good judgment". [Many obligatory disclaimers apply to this tweet: no single attribute is enough to make for a good leader, no single framework is fully explanatory, etc., but the margins of this tweet are too small to contain them.]

@paulg @levie Or it’s the market. I bought my 65 yo dad who’s hard of hearing $2500 Eargos and $250 shokz. He doesn’t use either but I feel like he might if they just looked like air pods. He’s too self conscious.

@levie I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but you can tell how old the people running Apple are from the fact that they're making heart monitors and hearing aids.

Apple just announced AirPod features to turn them into hearing aids. Having experienced a harder time talking to my grandparents in their later years due solely to hearing loss, this is such a brilliant idea it’s crazy.

My take on "Founder Mode"

@tyromper @emilykmay Need @zachthinkshare on this one!

@emilykmay Pro tip, How we can learn is by communicating this way with you! Imagine your man asking to help more, take things off your plate & giving you actionable advice on how he communicates & can help best........ and you respond this way. 🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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New game on PH, launching from ⁦@felicis⁩. Guess which startups are real vs AI. I think I have an unfair advantage after working across startups horizontally for 7 years. Real Fake Game August 19, 2024 🟩 ,🟩 ,🟩 ,🟩 ,🟩 ,🟩 realfakegame.com/?ref=producthu…

Normalize saying… Some people work better in an office and some people work better at home Some work is better done collaboratively and other work is better async Some people deep work with buzz and some deep work in silence Offices and home both have distractions. Some are worse than others depending on who’s there. Why is this hard?

I love stories of early contributions to @ProductHunt. @mischa told me he suggested the Makers badge to @rrhoover back in the day. 😮 He was user #428! If you have any stories like this, please do share!

@stephsmithio @internet_pipes How many are full time versus part time. I like what percentage succeed but I want context - what is success? Full time supporting yourself?

I'm doing an upcoming talk on the creator economy, pulling in data from all the tools shared in @internet_pipes 📊 What kind of questions would you want answered? For example... • How much are creators making? • Does consistency rly matter? • What percentage succeed?

@alexisohanian @zoink There were so many things I bought as plastic and then found out they had a stainless steel or glass options and I was wtf and rebought it all.

@zoink Agreed. Lemme know. Stainless steel LFG.

@gabe__perez @ProductHunt 👀

Chrome extension approved - @ProductHunt launch scheduled. Here’s a sneak peek 🫣

Joined @eriktorenberg and @nujabrol to talk about newsletter strategy + distribution of podcast content! Love the Media Empires pod from @TurpentineMedia so pretty cool to be on after watching my favorite content experts like @stephsmithio and @austin_rief on the show.