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The 7 (mostly free) tools Product Hunt used to build its early-stage community

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by on August 8, 2014 at 7:47 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, Roundups

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Erik Torenberg is Product Hunt’s first hire. This article originally appeared on the CMX Hub. I’ve been thinking about building online and offline communities for the past few years. Community is at the center of what I do, from planning in-person events (rap cyphers, book clubs, happy hours) to creating online and scalable communities (rapt.fm, Product Hunt). As Product Hunt’s first hire, I work with our founder Ryan Hoover on community, marketing, business development, and all the other random things that people at early-stage startups do. Product Hunt’s core is its community. It’s our lifeblood. We rely on our core users to submit, curate,…

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Anonymous email service Leak suspends service, is working on its own email backend

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by on August 8, 2014 at 6:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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After going live less than two weeks ago, Leak, the anonymous emailing site, has suspended service citing issues with email providers MailChimp and SendGrid. The emails sent from Leak through the email services were not opt-in, a violation of both companies’ terms of service. Leak looked like it was spamming people. The last thing either email company wants is someone using its service to send messages to people they didn’t ask for. Co-Founder Laurent Desserrey told TNW, “Seb and I didn’t expect that people would be sending that many leaks over the week. It’s actually a good issue.” A good issue that is…

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