Ryan Hoover

Who doesn't love Sriracha. Best condiment ever. Way better than Tapatio.

I read this book over a decade ago when I worked in the video game industry. Although it's about gaming, the learnings and tactics in the book can be applied to any product. It's really about psychology and how people think.

Facebook Local is Amazon of event discovery, very underrated imo. You'll have to dig around, but it has just about anything you might be into from concerts to professional mixers to weird warehouse parties.

If you loved turntable.fm, you'll love this. It's exactly the same. 🎶

Krisp magically mutes background noise and chatter when on video calls. The perfect use case: When you're on Zoom call at a coffee shop. It's available on Mac, Windows, and most recently iOS.

Although a little long-winded (imho), Michael Singer's book is a useful read for those suffering with anxiety. My favorite quote from the book: “You cannot spend your life avoiding things that are not actually happening, or everything will become negative”

FullyStory is one of my favorite startup tools. Analytics tools like Mixpanel provide quantitative insights but qualitative feedback is much more useful when building something new. I learned a ton of things using FullStory during the YourStack private beta.

I've used several other website builders (Squarespace, Wix, etc.) but have found Carrd to be the best for simple, one-page sites. I use it for Weekend Fund's site (weekend.fund).