It’s the mid-week checkup! Last Thursday Justin announced the first product he'd be building. He only has 7 days to do it.

In this episode you'll hear real-life journal entries from Justin as he attempts to write The Product Hunt handbook for delivery on Thursday.

He also got a special surprise... listen to hear about that.

Follow-up

• We made it to the top of New & Noteworthy in iTunes! Thank you! (Keep leaving those reviews)
• You can pre-order The Product Hunt Handbook now and get $5 off (somebody already did!)
• Maurice Cherry shared his new podcast, Year of Tea
• Shantnu started /r/bankmanagers on Reddit ;)
• Lucas da Silva from Brazil wanted to hear some heavy metal, so I played City of Gold, by Striker
• Justin Hunter was inspired to start building!

Stats update

• Total podcast listens: 8017
• Most popular episode: "EP6: This is it: first product announcement!"
• iTunes Ratings: 50
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Goal for today

Get the pre-order page up and ready: gum.co/producthunt/preorder

Beard update

Photo from Saturday while I was writing.

Show notes

• Pre-order The Product Hunt Handbook
• Subscribe & Rate the show on iTunes
• Gumroad's 30 Day Challenge
• Build & Launch newsletter
• Follow Justin on Twitter: @mijustin

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Update from 2021: A lot has happened since I recorded these episodes: I launched a podcast hosting company, Transistor.fm, with my friend Jon Buda! If you want to hear what I'm up to now go to transistor.fm/justin.