A virtual haircut service got 150,000 visitors in 24 hours after hitting Product Hunt, then scaled to over 1,000 cuts. The founder seeded journalists and bet the emotional concept would go viral. One stylist alone completed 200 haircuts.
But is that a fair characterization of you? Yeah. I feel like actually, General, I've spent hours brainstorming with you before. I feel like for you to get excited about building something, it's gotta start with some emotion. Like either you think of something that makes you laugh and then you're just giggling, but you're serious about it once you start laughing. Or it's some like really sad story and you're like, okay, this is an injustice in the world I want to go solve. But is that a fair characterization of you?
Yeah, I mean, I do like things that kind of go viral. And like for me, you probably need a haircut. I mean, I told my girlfriend, I was like, I'm 100% sure this is going to go viral. And she's like, well, how do you know? How do you know? And I was like, well, like, the name and, and kind of, you know, where we're at. And it was the timing, like you just seed it with a couple of journalists and, you know, throw it up on Product Hunt. And like before you know it, like, I don't know, we probably had 150,000 uniques in the first 24 hours.
How many actual haircuts?
Um, probably more, probably over 1,000 at this point.
Yeah, yeah, definitely actually more than that because we have one stylist who did 200. Any public speaking thing where they're like, "Hey, can you send me like your bio?" This absolutely needs to be the first thing. I conducted over— I'm responsible for over 100,000 haircuts over the internet.
The crazy thing is that people like actually look good.
Well, the crazy thing is you don't have a haircut right now. You're growing it out.
Try booking a haircut like this weekend. You can't. The site is busy. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm out here. I got to— Make it happen for the people.
I love it. There's a reason I have this hat on, because, you know, your boy butchered himself with his own 2 AM haircut with his own clippers without using your website. And, um, you can't see my hair, so that's why.
