Claudia Lyons

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Nika

3d ago

Why did you lose your Product Hunt streak and what was your record?

@charlie_hb started quite an interesting thread where he outlined on which days people lose their streaks the most often.

He showed some stats regarding days in a week, but I am still lacking the reasons.

The most common ones I have heard were:

What usually makes you scrub the timeline for “just one quick fix”?

I notice most people I talk to describe their edits verbally, like "I want to cut where I said um" or "remove that whole pause after the intro." But then they have to go and find it manually on the timeline.

Wondering if the timeline is even the right interface for that kind of editing.

We stopped measuring engagement and our product got better

For the first year of building Murror, we optimized for the same metrics every other app optimizes for: daily active users, session length, screens per visit. The dashboard looked healthy. Usage was growing. We felt good about it.

But something was off. Our most engaged users were not our happiest users. People who spent the most time in the app were often the ones who left the harshest feedback. Meanwhile, users who opened the app twice a week for five minutes were writing us emails about how it changed how they handle difficult conversations.

How marketing agencies can add $1,000 MRR per client without taking on more work

Most agencies are missing a huge blind spot in their client reports right now.
Not because they are bad at their job.
Because the game changed and nobody sent a memo.
More and more of your clients customers are skipping Google entirely. They go straight to ChatGPT or Perplexity, ask a question, get an answer, and click the brand that gets mentioned.
If your client is not getting mentioned? They are losing leads they do not even know exist.
I spent the last few months figuring out how to track this properly and turn it into a service agencies can actually sell. Not some complicated AI audit. Just a simple monthly report that shows clients where they stand in AI search, how their competitors are doing, and what to do about it.
Agencies adding this are charging between $200 and $500 extra per month per client for it. The conversation is easy because the data is new and clients have never seen it before.
I wrote a free playbook covering the whole thing.
What AI visibility actually is. The metrics to track. A script for pitching it. A sample report structure. And a 7-day checklist to get your first report delivered.
Download here.
If you are running an agency and you have been looking for a way to grow revenue without growing your client list, this might be the one.

Csaba Ivancza

4d ago

Setting up monorepos for AI: submodules versus subtrees

I've been building my app for 8 months now, and i ended up having 5 repositories

  • nextjs app

  • databases

  • customer facing API

  • node-sdk that wraps the api

  • react-sdk, for both reusing shared component and customer facing components

So i thought, it's gonna be great if i create a mono repo with submodules. But it was terrible. I realized that turborepo does not like external packages, and as i tried to reuse my own customer facing libs, the DX became terrible. It was very time consuming to ship a feature. Even when i wanted to use Codex or Cursor 3, it was not able to show git diff properly, also i was not able to use Cursor's cloud agents properly to ship complex features.

What to share feedback / bugs?

Created a very simple app to gather feedback about Inquir.
In case you find bugs, or just want to see any new features, add them all here.
It's not modarated XD.

What do you do after AWS Lambda stops being the right fit?

I like Lambda for a lot of things, but there s a very specific point where it stops feeling elegant.

Usually it starts with something like:

  • a job that runs too long

  • a workflow that should keep going in the background

  • a task that needs better isolation or custom runtime behavior

  • a system that starts needing cron, retries, webhooks, logs, and routing in one place

And then the answer often becomes: move to Fargate, ECS, Step Functions, EC2, or stitch multiple services together.

Why most AI products feel the same and what it actually takes to feel different

I have been thinking about this a lot lately: why do so many AI products feel interchangeable?

You open one, you open another. Different logo, different color scheme, same experience. A text box. A chat interface. Some version of "ask me anything." The wrapper changes but the feeling does not.

Manfred

18d ago

What was meant to be my private financial freedom app, I'll now launch on Product Hunt

I am excited: My first launch on Product Hunt is coming up: Financial Freedom Mentor.

I have been researching and writing a lot about financial freedom. Then, I built an app initially purely for myself to track and accelerate progress on my journey to financial freedom.