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Stop self-rejecting + start building

Hello everyone,

This one cuts a little deeper. It's about self-editing. And self-rejection.

Meet-Tingp/meet-tingDan Bulteel

15d ago

5,000 customers, £20k spent: everything we did to market our AI startup (w/ free resources)

Hey all,

I wrote a forum post not long ago on marketing as one of the rising in importance hires for all startups. This is all the things we've done, with some results and free resources.

A stranger at Web Summit accidentally gave us a feature

I didn't know no-shows waste 15-40% of every sales team's calendar until I met a stranger at Web Summit.
I was standing by our booth when someone wandered over and started asking about what we're building at @Meet-Ting. I assumed he was just curious.
Then he mentioned his company loses a lot of time to no-shows across his sales team. I asked how many.
"We get 10,000 inbound demos a month."
He walked off eventually, and someone came over to me and said: "Do you know who that was?".

Turns out he was the Head of Sales at a European unicorn.

We stayed in touch. And that conversation became a feature!
We call it 'No Show Recovery'.
Ting watches your calendar. If it notices the other person didn't show up, it asks if you want help rescheduling - automatically, inside the same thread.
When you're running 10k sales calls a month and 15-40% don't show, recovering even 1-5% is hundreds of meetings saved and potential $$$s.
Other lesson, talk to people as if you want and expect nothing in return.

Nika

19d ago

Did you choose to bootstrap or go the funding route and why?

Today's Product Hunt lineup genuinely surprised me in the best way.

TL;DR: As @aaronoleary said  one or more companies launching today will get a YC interview and potentially funding.

Big Ting Web Update - "Try Before You Signup", Ting for Business + Remixing with Claude

Hey all,

We just made a much overdue update to our website based on some key insights that I thought helpful to share.

Make Scheduling As Easy As Sending A Voice Note On WhatsApp

We're constantly looking for ways to reduce the pain and cognitive load of managing your calendar.

We started with something simple: CC Ting in an email and it schedules the meeting for you.

The Power Of Customer Calls (Not What You Think)

Before I started Ting, I did the classic founder things...

Read every Paul Graham essay.
Listened to Masters of Scale.
Obsessed over founder stories.

Dan Bulteel

1mo ago

Simplora 2.0 - The agentic meeting stack with free prep, notes, and chat

Simplora is an agentic meeting stack that unifies meeting preparation, conversation, execution, and analysis. Get advanced pre-meeting research, proactive in-meeting intelligence, automated post-meeting workflows, and an ever-evolving knowledge base. Works wherever you already meet — Zoom, Google Meet, & Microsoft Teams. Our FREE plan comes with UNLIMITED AI meeting prep, notes, and chat. No credit card required.

We added the Product Hunt badge to our website. It felt good.

Self-centred update today, but adding the top Product Hunt badge to our site felt real good. See bottom right of image, also online here: meet-ting.com

Thanks again, gives us pride and satisfaction.

Meet-Tingp/meet-tingDan Bulteel

2mo ago

Will Marketing Be The Most Important Future Hire? (Long Read)

This post is actually inspired by a tweet from @sandradjajic + an update here on PH from @chrismessina.

A few days ago I saw this:

Chris Messina

2mo ago

A new high watermark: over 600 products submitted to Product Hunt for today's leaderboard

As a measure of the impact of vibe coding and the need to focus on positioning, narrative, and marketing and distribution, I noticed that that 610 products were submitted to the Product Hunt leaderboard today, but only 16 were featured which is less than 3%.

The previous high was just over 500 products in December.

Nika

2mo ago

AI agents hire human bodies to do tasks in real life? What will be our relationships with AI agents?

Yesterday went through this Tweet by Greg Isenberg.

There is an app called "rent a human."

From Reactive To Proactive AI - Ting Week Ahead Upgrade

Hey all,

In our recent Ting v2 launch, we talked about giving your calendar your brain so it can make decisions for you. That means moving from reactive proactive full automation.

Top 3 Launch + Ting Teardown (Bonus Content)

Hopefully this isn t your second Ting notification overload in a couple of days

We got top three launch for the day yesterday! We're so delighted and grateful. Thank you for upvotes, comments, good vibes and giving us the energy to keep pushing.

We said we d give Product Hunt something extra, but we didn't want to spam yesterday.

Save The Date 29.01 - Ting v2

Dear PH community,

Next week marks six months of Ting - and it would feel wrong not to do something special here, where it all started.

Guide to designing, testing, and evaluating memory in AI agents

One of the coolest parts of my job is getting a front-row seat to how @marianaprazeres thinks about AI.
Memory feels table stakes in AI right now. But for @Meet-Ting, it s not just a log of the past - it s a living system that shapes how people schedule, work, and want to spend their week.
It s not just logistics - it s patterns around energy, priorities, and relationships over time.

Here are a few things we learned while designing and testing agent memory in production:

Jimmy Lowery Jr

3mo ago

Who is pouring into you?

As leaders, we spend most of our time pouring into others. Our families, our friends, our teams. We invest our time, energy, and presence in being there for others. But somewhere along the way, it becomes easy to overlook an important question

Who is pouring into you?

Meet-Tingp/meet-tingDan Bulteel

3mo ago

Why Agents Will Unseat More Incumbents Than Social Ever Did

Hey all,

15 years ago I wrote an article about the rise of a more social web for Huff Post.

My Financép/my-financeMatt Carroll

3mo ago

This is how I spent money in 2025

Every year I reflect on how I spent money in the previous year. Previously, I have manually scraped my bank statements and put together a report, but 2025 was interesting because I built a fairly overkill personal finance product to make this report easy to generate for myself.

Because it is really easy, I m going to do a deep dive on how I spent money in 2025. (I was able to put this all together in ~10 mins)

Meet-Tingp/meet-tingDan Bulteel

3mo ago

A reminder for founders: You are already the 1% of the 1%

Dear Product Hunt community,

If you re reading this and you ve launched something - or you're close to launching - you are already incredibly special.