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How An "Evil Router" Can Help You Build Wi-Fi Devices That Actually Work
How do you transition people from physical music--CDs, radios, home theater--toward Internet listening? In the mind of Daniel Conrad, founder of Beep, you connect that existing stereo system to the...
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How The Guardian Uses "Attention Analytics" To Track Rising Stories
A day after Philip Seymour Hoffman had died of a drug overdose, a year-old article by comedian and actor Russell Brand on why he gave up drugs suddenly burst into the Guardian's top 10 most read list....
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Why Every Software Product Is A Ticking Time Bomb
New software products are born every day to great fanfare, complete with Twitter back-slapping and a TechCrunch headline. But over time, as growth stalls, they often end up in the shadow world of...
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Do Gamified Education Apps Actually Help You Learn?
Language-learning tool Duolingo was named Apple's App of the Year for 2013. Its game mechanics make memorizing foreign words for medical terms or days of the week fun and addictive--as do Duolingo's...
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How Digital History Lessons Can "Disrupt" The Way We Think About Time
Ever since he was a kid watching Doctor Who, Chris Wild had the burning desire to travel back in time. Today, the 43-year-old English museum curator is webmaster of Retronaut.com, a site leading the...
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Inside The Video Game Industry's Culture Of Crunch Time
Crunch time: the last-minute all-nighter, the deadline rush, the sweat and Red Bull and sleeping at your desk. For fledgling companies, it can be a perverse milestone--one which has become largely...
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Seven Ways Technology Is Transforming Your Bike Commute
With each passing auto show, we keep hearing about how cars are the new smartphones. Sure, cars have been becoming more and more like our computers for years and pretty soon they'll even drive...
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What Every Company Can Learn From The "Pre-order" Kickstarter Model
Big-name brands usually knock the small fish right out of the water when it comes to the product launch. After watching thousands of product launches, Donald Brewer noticed that if companies could...
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How Big Are Phones Going To Get Before We All Need Hand Surgery?
The LG G Flex is the first widely available phone with a curved, flexible display. While this unique six-inch screen is eye-catching, it's more of a bar trick than a feature. The thing that really...
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Could This 20-Year-Old Kid Make Bitcoin Obsolete?
Toronto programmer Vitalik Buterin was just 17 when he first became active in the world of Bitcoin. Now, at 20, he's one of the creators of a new currency called Ethereum, which its founders hope will...
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Five Hard Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Starting Up
Product Hunt began as an experiment, inspired by my desire to geek out about interesting new products with smart folks. Similarly, my "20-minute MVP" was surprisingly well received and the 30-person...
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This Zany Newsman Is The Stephen Colbert Of Bitcoin
The world of Bitcoin is growing and traditional media can't make heads or tails of it. But Bitcoin's value continues to rise and new cryptocurrencies join the fold every day. A community of enthusiast...
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Ex-Zynga And Google Engineers Help You Book A Foreign Medical Procedure
Americans spend $2.7 trillion a year on doctors, prescription drugs, and insurance plans--and the price is only going up. Desperate for cheap health care, more and more of us are traveling overseas to...
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The Casually Interested Person's Guide To Investing In Bitcoin
If you're interested in buying Bitcoins, you may have heard of Silk Road, the online agora for contraband--you know, the one whose founder called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts. The cryptocurrency...
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How Los Angeles Is Kind Of, Almost A Startup Town
Los Angeles has never been a real tech titan. The city has yet to breed its own Facebook, Google, or Tumblr, whose vast successes generated sophisticated tech ecosystems in San Francisco and New...
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How To Stop Overthinking Your Startup's New Feature
I recently needed to update how Draft, an online word processor I created, supports comments. When I originally added comments, I kept them very simple; a list with a text box beneath--reminiscent of...
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Is UI Really Everything? Facebook Paper Proves Maybe Not
With last week's launch of Facebook's new app Paper, it's hard not to wonder if every Facebook product is cursed. As doubts about the social network's continued longevity become a growing concern, the...
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What This Legendary Piano Maker Can Teach Every Product Team
If your team is trying to build the next Flappy Bird, you should stop reading now.But if you're trying to build products that can stand the test of time, and processes to match, you should lend an ear...
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Major Bitcoin Exchanges Are Attacked At Once, Creating Pandemonium
Bitstamp on Tuesday became the second Bitcoin exchange to halt withdrawals in recent days after a denial-of-service attack exploiting a property of the Bitcoin protocol made it difficult to verify...
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This Story About Slack's Founder Says Everything You Need To Know About Him
Stewart Butterfield cofounded Flickr with his wife and then launched a nonviolent MMO that gained a cult following. Today, he's releasing Slack, a team messaging unifier and archiving app for Mac OS X...
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