Geoffrey Reed

Building used to be the bottleneck. Now I can get a working app faster than I can write a good landing page copy for it. So the "idea guy with no code skills" excuse is basically gone.

But almost none of my vibe-coded weekend projects have real users, and I don't think that's a coding problem anymore.

For those of you actually getting traction - what's eating your time now that building isn't the bottleneck?

Tried asking a couple LLMs for software recommendations in my niche without mentioning my brand name.

Turned out ChatGPT named us near the top but Claude completely ignored us.

It s pretty random because the results seem to change every few days anyway.

Has anyone successfully tweaked their site copy or docs to actually get picked up by these AI search tools?

I have seen a lot of people step back from platforms like LinkedIn after watching established accounts get randomly restricted without clear explanations. It makes you realize how risky is it to rely heavily on a platform that can pull the rug on your reach out of nowhere.

That situation made me rethink product Hunt. it used to be the go-to place for real feedback from early adopters. lately, though, it feels dominated by upvote groups, artificial praise, and makers trading favors. It's hard to tell if a top spot actually brings real users anymore or just temporary noise.

For anyone launching recently, where do you stand? Is Product Hunt still delivering real traction, or has it become too noisy to be worth the effort?