Most fitness apps don t fail because they lack features
they fail because people stop using them.

After 2 3 weeks, motivation drops and the app becomes just another chore.

Hey everybody,

Yigit here! I am developing a personal finance app mainly based on what features I wish an app to have and it is on google play closed test now. Here is a quick summary:
The app's main value proposition is being able to keep track of your expenses 'automatically'. The rationale behind is the fact that in my country banking laws restrict individual's access to open banking apis. That is, you cannot have an API access to your bank to exchange information and keep track of your expenses unless you are corporate. According to my research, this feature is available in US and EU but only with certain restrictions in the latter.

I thought it could be sutaible time to ask the community about their needs about such an app and can guide me a long way before I commit further. Would you be so kind enough to answer below questions? Any replies are appreciated and thanks in advance.

1. Do you use personal finance app?

2. Could you please share your the most essential must-have features of the personal finance app of your choise and tell me why?

3. Under which circumstances would you give another app a try?

4. What would be the ideal price point for such a service in your perspective?

I don t mean this in a disrespectful way or anything like that, but throughout my life, I ve come across (and I m sure you have too) several products whose actual usefulness wasn t exactly impressive, but their creators still made a huge amount of money.

For me, for example, it was:

• Fidget spinners (2017). At the peak, the global market was estimated at hundreds of millions to over $1 billion.

• Metaverse land (2021) valuation could be for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars each, with the overall market reaching hundreds of millions during the peak hype cycle. I bought one too. :D (actually was scammed).

• Pet Rock (1975) the creator became a millionaire within a few months.

We are two engineers who had no business caring this much about floor plans. Yet here we are.

When we first explored AI for real estate, everyone told us the same thing. Start with photos. Run AI virtual staging. Make the images pop. It sounded reasonable. It also felt wrong.

Hey Product Hunt!

I'm Kanisshka, co-founder of MyLinkX - and today I'm launching our first free tool:

An AI Instagram Bio Generator built specifically for creators.

Not another ChatGPT wrapper with a fancy UI. This is a focused, no-nonsense tool that does one thing really well.
Why I built this:

I m curious what Product Hunt launch results looked like in real terms for people here.

Not just upvotes or comments, but actual outcomes like:

• site visits

• signups

• activated users

• paid conversions

• retention after the spike

If you re open to sharing, it would be interesting to know:

I remember many people getting demotivated after not being featured and leaving the platform.

In my opinion, that's not the best idea.

We launched on Monday. We ended up at #6.

Not the top 3 I quietly hoped for. But I want to be honest about what the day actually gave me, because it wasn't what I expected.

I built BrandingStudio.ai mostly alone, from Porto/Portugal, over the past year. No PH network. No launch team. No one ready to vote when it went live (except my wife - thank you!). Just a product I believed in after over 20 years in branding around the world, and a lot of uncertainty about whether anyone else would see what I saw - that we need to democratize access to how a brand should actually be created, as we do inside the agencies for Fortune 500 companies, as that is where a brand becomes the biggest comodity for a company or product.

What I didn't expect: 500+ engaged visitors so far who actually read the product. Real questions about methodology. Pushback that made me think. Someone quoted a Paul Graham essay, "The Brand Age," that dropped the same week, arguing that as AI commoditizes execution, brand becomes the only battleground left. That one comment alone was worth the whole launch.

Hey Product Hunt

Tomorrow I m launching Scrollified, an app I built during late nights alongside working full-time and my PhD.

The idea started from a personal problem:
I d open YouTube Shorts or TikTok for 5 minutes and somehow it would be 2 hours later.

I understand that everyone comes here with the hope of winning the Product of the Day award (at least one of the top three spots).

But so what does that mean for you?

Are you going to sell more products/subscriptions?

There are so many launches on Product Hunt every day. How do you decide which ones are worth clicking into?

What s your #1 filter or shortcut?

A story and an experiment have been spreading on X: Scientists uploaded the brain of a fruit fly into a computer, and now it lives freely in its own simulation.

We managed to clone the physical form of animals more than 30 years ago (for example, the cloning of a goat using SCNT in 1999). There was even a controversial case in China where a scientist was sued after attempting to create gene-edited babies in 2018.

Let me start from the creator s perspective:
I personally don t have a product (apart from hiring people for creative work or offering personal consultations).

But as a creator, I constantly share content, insights, and information, value that helps me build trust (for free). Based on that perceived expertise, people eventually decide to work with me (a paid service).

If I'm being honest, I'm online (and on PC in general) more than is healthy. Never less than 12 to 14 hours a day.

In practice, I use it most often for:

creating graphics

tldr: yes. Shoutouts are one of the simplest distribution levers on Product Hunt.

Shoutouts are meant to pay it forward and highlight the tools that helped you build. But beyond goodwill, they create durable distribution for your product on Product Hunt and across LLM driven discovery.

When you shout out a product during launch, it becomes a founder review on that product s page. Founder reviews sit above regular reviews and include a link to both your profile and your product. That means your product is now attached to every future visit to that product s review page, long after launch day. For example, check out @timliao s shoutout of @Framer or @guymanzur s shoutout of @Base44

Before AI, I always thought I would NEVER learn how to code. I genuinely admired technical people, watching them code felt like watching magic. I remember wishing that maybe one day, I could do something like that too.

I ve never had any formal education in programming, and I had zero experience building apps. But with AI, I was able to start from just an idea and slowly figure things out on my own experimenting, setting things up, and eventually creating my first interface that I could actually interact with.

It honestly felt magical. It made me realize how fast the world is changing. Coding is no longer something completely out of reach. AI is making it possible for people like me to turn ideas in our heads into real, tangible drafts for the first time.

Hey everyone

I m the founder of Startr.

Like many solo founders, I was building in public, talking to people on X, LinkedIn, Product Hunt, Reddit

I'm COMPLETELY new to this Product Hunt community since we launched our product today -- FoodHealth Score.

Recently, the tech team has opened the gates to our codebase ;) meaning... I've moved up in the world from a Product Manager / Nutrition SME to a Dietitian actually contributing to our product.