Andreas Klinger

Product Hunt's CTO hired himself by building a Chrome extension

Andreas, who became Product Hunt's CTO for ~4 years, first caught Hoover's eye by scraping the pre-API site to build a Chrome extension that showed the day's top products in every new browser tab. He demonstrated value before any job existed.

“one day he launches a Chrome extension for Product Hunt. And so this was also, again, experimental phase, not even incorporated, but he launched this Chrome extension, which he created by scraping the site. We didn't have an API or anything back then, scraping the site. And every time you'd open up a new tab, you'd see the day's most upvoted products every day. And that caught my eye”

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