Mertcan Sağlam

Mertcan Sağlam

co-founder at shim 🦐
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About

I build SHIM, an AI gateway that stops your prompts and MCP tools from leaking customer data. PII scrubbing under 100ms, audit trails regulators actually accept. I read LLM logs so you don't have to. You can call me shimcan

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Maker History

  • shim
    shimPrevent data leaks and slash your LLM bill by 40%
    Jan 2026
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    Joined Product HuntJanuary 18th, 2026

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5d ago

Those, who successfully landed in the top 10 on the Product Hunt – which benefits you had?

Apart from featuring in the Product Hunt newsletter and some awareness.
What measurable (long-term) outcomes did you get?

E.g. apart from increased traffic it could be:
XY long-term users
 collaboration claimed
investors who gave you XY amount of money

Share your highlights that stemmed from the ranking.

TruLatap/trulata•

6d ago

How do you promote your product without sounding too salesy?

Ask a question you actually want answered. Nobody minds "what would you need to see before you trusted this?" People tune out "check out our amazing launch." The other thing that works: show the bad week too. Real numbers, including the ugly ones, read as honest.

RunEvrp/runevr•

18d ago

💸 When is a product/maker ready to raise money?

At what point does a product become ready to talk to investors?

When you have users?
Revenue?
A clear business model?
A certain number of people using it?

Especially for solo or small-team makers, it feels twice as hard to reach all of these points alone - while continuing to build the product without income and bootstrapping everything.

At some point, it starts to feel like an infinite loop:

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