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cen zhou

11d ago

I built LinkLens to help people read less but know more. Would love your honest feedback.

Hi Product Hunt community

I'm the solo maker behind LinkLens.

What it does:
You paste any long URL (article, report, PDF, tweet thread), and LinkLens gives you a one sentence summary + three key takeaways in seconds. The idea is simple read less, know more.

Why I'm here:
This is my very first project, and I'm not good at marketing or community building yet. Instead of letting my product sit in silence, I want to learn from you.

LinkLens is coming soon — turn any long URL into a one-sentence insight.

The problem

We're drowning in long-form content. Articles, reports, newsletters 80% of what we read is fluff. But we still open every link "just in case."

That's 10+ hours a week lost.

The solution

cen zhou

12d ago

LinkLens - Long link → instant insight. Read less, know more.

Stop drowning in tabs. LinkLens transforms any lengthy link (news, blog, PDF, documentation) into an instant, digestible insight. No account required for basic use. How it works: Paste a long URL. Click “Lens”. Get your one‑paragraph summary + three bullet takeaways in under 3 seconds. Built because we were tired of spending hours hunting for two useful sentences. Now you can skim nothing, yet know everything that matters. Try LinkLens today – read less, know more.
Nika

9d ago

Build your brand before your product, or launch first and reveal yourself later?

  1. I've always been on the personal brand side. More and more founders are building it now (sometimes even before the product is ready while it's still in development, before seed fundraising). The CEO builds their position so the product sells more easily at the official launch.

  2. But I have experience with people who built the product, scaled it, and only then did we discover who was behind it.

Honestly, with the first approach, I'd be concerned that people invest more in me as a person than in the product. People would idealise the founder and overlook the product's flaws (which could hurt development and constructive feedback).

+ I noticed the most common mistake that many people who started building a personal brand first, connected their product to their personal accounts (emails, social media, etc.) and started having a problem selling these things, because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles.

Rankfenderp/rankfenderImed Radhouani

23d ago

We spent 6 months building for enterprise. Nobody bought it.

We thought we were ready.

Bigger deals. Fewer customers. Better margins. That was the dream.

So we built enterprise features. SSO. Advanced permissions. Audit logs. A whole new pricing tier starting at $2,000/month.

We spent 6 months. Three engineers. One dedicated product manager. Endless meetings about "enterprise readiness."