... that. only watching someone else use it does. so what i would tell a solo dev: dont hire a designer for the pretty screens, AI or a decent template, references.... gets you most of the way now. the thing actually worth paying for is one hour of someone competent using your app in front of you while you sit there and say nothing Comment from Saman Bahmani(@saman_bahmani1): I hired in past external resources, but I do fully ... ... never get over Comment from Samuel Nwokemodo(@samuel_nwokemodo): @jordan_bulk  This is something I ve been thinking about too. Building the flow makes sense from the creator s perspective, but seeing how a first-time user actually

... curious whether "launch on the weekend" is actually good advice or just a myth people repeat. So I pulled every Product Hunt launch from Jan 1 to Sep 1, 2026, 4,962 launches across 244 days, and looked at how many points it actually

... government-regulated companies. Then the company decided to move from being project-based to product-based. And that's when things got really interesting... I started leading product research, helping with UI/UX, figuring out what features the market actually needed, and working with developers every day. That's when I realized something: I loved building SaaS. Not just marketing it. Shaping something around a real problem. Figuring out what people actually

... Rabnoor Singh(@rabnoor_s): the mix mattered less for us than what we asked people to do. we had a customer sign and pay and then never open the product once, so the written feedback looked great and the actual usage was nothing. after that i stopped counting anything people could give me for free. what worked instead was asking what they would pay before the thing existed. 987 people went through that and it came ... ... useful part wasnt the revenue, it was that a rule picked the number instead of me picking the flattering one. your developer finding tracks with mine. developers gave the sharper critique, but neither group told me who would actually

... something specific, I ll usually ask ChatGPT first, then check Product Hunt or Reddit to see what real people are saying. Google has become more of a second step for me. What I m curious about is whether thats actually changing discovery for other makers too, or if I m just unusually deep into AI tools. For those building SaaS products: are you seeing people discover you through AI yet? Or is Google still doing most of the work? Comment ... ... move here Comment from Ben Cohen(@bencohen): @sophietech  Exactly. I think discovery and validation are starting to split into two different layers. AI helps you build the shortlist, while communities like Product Hunt help you decide what s actually

... this problem in the first place. The more I learned about hiring, the stranger the whole system seemed to me. Companies can get hundreds or thousands of applications for one job, recruiters have nowhere near enough time to actually understand every candidate, and somehow we're still relying mostly on a document people wrote about themselves to decide who gets a chance. A document, that isn't gonna list the same opportunities a single mother first generation immigrant had versus

... today and tried to use Siri to send an email. And somehow, I ended up spending more time fighting with Siri than actually sending the email Try this I need access to I can t do that At some point I was just thinking: Why can t my phone just do what I m asking? Claude Code can basically operate my Mac and actually

... Start with the one number here that isn't someone's marketing. Pew Research put browsing software on 900 US adults and watched 68,879 real Google searches in March 2025. Not a survey about how search feels. Actual behaviour. When an AI summary appeared, people clicked a traditional search result on 8% of visits. When it didn't, 15%. Roughly half. They clicked a link inside the summary itself on 1% of visits. And they ended the browsing session ... ... referrals under 1% of sessions. Hold both: the old channel is shrinking, and the new channel is currently a rounding error that converts fine, not magically. Anyone selling you urgency on this is selling you something. Which leaves the actual

... Frontier models now cluster above 90% on the public benchmarks, and Gartner says over 40% of agentic projects get killed by 2027. Those two facts are closer to the same fact than they look here's the eval that actually predicts whether your thing ships. There's a number that decided which model your product runs on. You saw it on a leaderboard or in a launch post 94% on this, state-of-the-art on that ... ... made you feel safe picking. I've done exactly this. That number is close to useless for the thing you actually

... typical day looks something like: Work normally across a few projects Switch between models and tools depending on the task Hit a usage limit, or see the invoice at the end of the month Try to work out what actually consumed it Realize the answer isn't really there I want to know things like: Which project is using the most? Which model is responsible? Was it one huge session, or hundreds of smaller ones? Am I paying for long ... ... context, retries, or tool calls? Am I using an expensive model for work that didn't really need it? Which parts of my workflow are actually

... Watched a product go from "hoping to get featured" this morning to #1 by this afternoon, and paid attention to what actually pulled people into the comments instead of just counting upvotes. The single comment that got the most reaction wasn't a pitch. It was the founder admitting a real gap straight up, saying a part of the product wasn't built well yet. That pulled more replies than any feature announcement in the same thread. The founder answered ... ... nearly everything within minutes, including comments that pointed out real problems, and never got defensive about it. The speed plus the lack of spin seemed to matter more than what the answer actually

... years by people who cared about how it feels to use. Dark, considered interfaces. Whitespace that isn't accidental. Content that is the product, not decoration bolted onto a spreadsheet. The short answer to "what's the best LinkedIn alternative in 2026" is this: builders aren't looking for another feed. They're looking for a professional network that was actually

... couldnt download a video in hd quality. then as a dev, when something doesnt work, you think "let's build it." so i got the same thought. i started researching idea validation and found like 0.2% of websites actually worked fine, but they were full of shitty ads. i thought this is the perfect market , we should go all in. and when i checked their traffic i got shocked , cause they werent getting one or two million, they were getting ... ... tens of millions. after some weeks of confusing "thinking" with actual

... webhooks folder they both sit under. so the glob fix doesn't even apply to the three i have today, they were never colocated in the first place. which proves your enumeration vs property point before i even get to a fourth provider. the property i actually

... Comment from Vaisakh Devidas(@vaisakhdevidas): I think Product Hunt is no longer the place to validate an idea. It's where you showcase something people can actually use and recommend. Validation should happen before the launch. Product Hunt amplifies what you've already built. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @whateverneveranywhere  This actually

... Been building almost entirely with AI-assisted tools, and the thing I've found matters most isn't how fast the AI generates code, it's having a real, repeatable way to verify what it actually did before trusting it's correct. A recent example: I had a security researcher report what looked like a real vulnerability. Turned out the AI-assisted fix from weeks earlier had shipped correctly, but the researcher's finding conflated two different things, the anon ... ... being visible client-side (expected, normal) versus

... Genuinely curious how people here actually think about their own data security not in theory, but in practice. Do you feel confident it's actually

... Since our last launch we've been heads-down on one thing: making "this integration works" actually mean something. Here's what changed, and why we're more confident than a month ago. What we shipped? Five integrations now recognize the bugs people actually

... apparently didn't search, with zero indication anything had been missed. It wasn't even a hard case, the file just wasn't in the directory it happened to grep first. What was your moment? And did it actually change your workflow afterward, or did the trust creep back in after a week like it always seems to for me? Comment from Shivangi Tripathi(@roguetink): I had an agent triage and dedupe a messy backlog for me, a few hundred ... ... Anything that removes or combines items has to show me what it touched and why, so the judgment stays with me. And to your last point, the trust does try to creep back, but on anything that changes the actual

... fourteenth time this week. A motivational quote about hustle printed over a sunset. Three humblebrags disguised as life lessons. One "I'm grateful and blessed" announcement with 4,000 likes. And somewhere, buried under all of it, maybe one actually useful post. This is the daily reality of LinkedIn for most programmers. They tolerate it because they feel they have to. They hate it because, honestly, it deserves to be hated. Here is exactly why. The Spam Never Stops ... ... developer" in your headline, the messages start. About 35% of LinkedIn connection requests are followed by aggressive sales messages, according to research from email management company Superhuman. That means one in three people trying to "connect" with you are actually

... product was this - R1 - recruiter1.io - ended on #238 - 12 upvotes. Now the good part - all these are FAKE - none of these people created any account or actually tested anything - all is FAKE - i do not know these people - Taha The end-to-end encryption angle is genuinely thoughtful, especially for a recruiting tool where privacy usually takes a back seat to features. Mark as readReplyAward View Upvote 5h ago Unread Cansu the no-login share flow is genuinely smooth, felt ... ... sending a link and not signing my life away Mark as readReplyAward View Upvote 7h ago Unread Devran T ktas Tried it out and the single-link sharing feels really clean, no logins or weird redirects. Curious how the crypto actually

... stages, sectors and geographies Investment theses, portfolios, recent investments and latest fundraises Individual investor backgrounds, focus areas, career histories and past investments Verified emails where available Sources for the underlying research Non-investment staff separated from the people who actually make investment decisions But the goal was never to build another giant directory or give founders a CSV and wish them luck. You add your company, and Causo works out which funds actually

... already get pulled into AI search now do more heavy lifting than a pile of plain links ever did. High DA links still matter for ranking in Google's top 10. But they won't do what most teams actually want in 2026, which is showing up inside AI Overviews, ChatGPT answers, and Perplexity citations . What still works: Relevance over volume. A link from a site in your niche that drives real traffic beats dozens of low-quality links. Earn ... ... category queries. Original data and digital PR. Surveys, benchmarks, and proprietary research earn the kind of editorial links that Google values and AI systems trust. What no longer works: Chasing DA alone. A relevant link from a site your actual

... that let any logged in user read rows that aren't theirs. None of that throws an error. It just sits there until someone finds it. For the non-engineers building real products with this stuff, what does your actual security check look like before you launch. Are you running anything to scan for this, paying someone to review it once, asking the AI itself to audit its own code, or just shipping and hoping nothing bad happens. Curious ... ... there is an actual

... median points needed to break the top 5 and top 10 on each day. Check the full report here: https://app.databox.com/shared/a... The short version: Saturday is the easiest day. Only 266 median points to crack top 5, vs 360 on Wednesday. That's a 35% harder climb on the worst day vs