... exponential backoff on retries. It hit a minor rate-limit error, got stuck in an infinite retry loop, and hammered the target server with thousands of requests per second. By the time I noticed, the target platform had hard-banned our entire office IP. The whole engineering team lost access to an external tool we rely on, and I had to spend the afternoon begging IT to cycle our router to get a new public ...

... used an AI assistant to write a spot trading bot with stop-loss logic. The backtesting looked amazing.. The minute I deployed it live the exchange banned my API key. The AI had built a polling loop that hammered the endpoint 50 times a second of using WebSockets. It wrote logic but completely ignored infrastructure reality. Anyone else learn the way that LLMs don't understand rate limits ...

... looking for a quick way to get robbed and banned without any explanation, Hyperagent is the perfect choice for you. I am an ordinary entrepreneur running a small Telegram advertising analytics project. I am not a developer or programmer, and I have zero technical hacking skills. On September 14, 2026, I paid $20 for a monthly subscription (Invoice #ILLFFP-00001). All I needed was an AI assistant to help me sort open public links and format basic data. Less than ... ... violate a single rule. I was simply asking the AI questions about open channel links. Nobody is safe on this platform. Absolutely nobody. You can be the most honest, paying customer doing basic tasks, and they will still ban

... naturally One follow-up max, then let it go On platforms: X is decent if you engage publicly first, LinkedIn works for B2B but needs to be hyper-targeted, Reddit can backfire if it reads as spam (i got banned on 5 accs lol). The one I'm most curious about right now is YouTube, I barely use it myself, but unlike a DM that disappears, a video keeps bringing people in months later, but's it's very time ... ... consuming. Still figuring this out though. How do you get your first users without it feeling creepy or spammy? What platform actually worked, and what made your message land? Comment from Asad M.(@asadmalik901): Five banned

... started well.] Finish the first LinkedIn-related MVP that I decided to build (and not be blocked on LinkedIn until then). Let's say that my version is working well, even alerts me when I am near the ban. I was banned

... like selling myself either, so I don't. What I do is write comparison pages between the competing products and mine, and put everything into ranking those. The people who land on them are already interested in a competitor, or already using one and unhappy with it. They read what each product does and what it costs, and if mine comes out as the reasonable choice, the conversion happens sooner or later. If you don't have much ... ... think "salesy" isn't really about word choice it's about whether you're answering something someone asked, or interrupting something they weren't asking about. Curious if others have found the line shifts once you have actual users vs

... revisit what we have done. (And what we will push into Q4.) :D As for me, here is my scope for the upcoming Q3: Work goals: Primarily focus on building my LinkedIn plugin that helps prevent people from being banned, so: mention it at least one post per week on LinkedIn publish the 1st MVP (non-paid version) in Chrome Store + create visual assets and descriptions invite 10 active LinkedIn users to test it and get feedback I am learning ... ... bursts Take marketing as seriously as building. It was my weak side, so more distribution and less hiding in the editor Build in public on X properly, share the real experience (the wins, the boring middle, the competitor

... against major coding agents to see where they get confused/lost etc. Planning to do a PH launch next month :) https://www.oqoqo.ai/ Comment from Haritha(@margharitha): @busmark_w_nika  I've had the opposite experience, X tends to shadow ban new accounts randomly. Also seeing a lot of reddit threads talking about the same issue. I'm launching my product soon and wasn't active on X earlier :) So I was trying to build an audience but X stopped showing ... ... site yet, your extension itself becomes the funnel very simple: unlock pro insights join waitlist 4. distribution > features right now your biggest lever is: LinkedIn posts showing real before/after activity patterns short demos ( this is what looks risky vs

... refer to how the UK banned social media for teenagers under 16. The funny moment was when the BBC News moderator asked the student : How much screen time does she have on the weekend (9 hours) and What will she do with her free time now? (Staring at the wall.) How would you use your time? And not only in your personal life, but especially in your professional life, which is often connected to business management. How would you promote ... ... mouth. Social media is powerful, but it's also rented land. Owning your website, mailing list, and direct relationships with customers would become a lot more important. Comment from George Apostolov(@gapostolov): I think if social media is banned

... Context Engine for my Models 4. Replicate - Content Generation & Training Image & Video Models 5. Resend - API managed emails Also, recently - its Klipio, My own tool for Static Image ad creatives from competitor ads. Comment from Justin Verlin(@justin_verlin): Claude Code VS

... days ago solo indie from Ukraine . Just wrote a candid post-mortem about everything that worked and didn't: https://dev.to/dmytrooriekhov/wh... Big surprises from week 1: PH gave 47% of total traffic HN second-submission got shadow-banned TinyLaunch approved on attempt #2 after fixing language detection Got my first Ko-fi tip today Wrote it for other solo makers thinking about launching. AMA if anything's unclear. Live: https://jobpilot-ai.pages.dev Comment from Vasileios Tsipas(@vasileiost): @mythic ...

... guys, as I am building the tool dedicated to LinkedIn (that prevents getting banned and losing your audience), I would also like to enrich the list of people who are worth following on this platform. They could be a good addition, for example, for: content inspiration interviews case studies also possible users of my prepared tool/influencers Right now, I am looking for 2 categories: Marketers and LinkedIn experts who talk about LinkedIn (can also be employees at LI company) People ... ... experienced the ban

... should not be sending out content that smells heavily of AI production. We understand that scaling content needs speed, but you shouldn't sacrifice speed for depth and originality. This is where Ozigi app comes in. With our banned lexicon feature, you can be sure that AI slop words or patterns do not show up in your content one bit. With a rich freemium offering, make the most out of your content game with both speed and depth ...

... last time I did a launch, it got actually flagged by Product Hunt and it was shadow banned, even though I didn't do anything. So, if you can help me understand how to avoid this happening in the future, it would be very helpful asai would be happy to have a successful product launch in this community and get some feedback from its users ...

... worked best for you? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @jinji_huang  This is gold! Thank you. I actually have many inputs on this :D Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @thamibenjelloun  yeah, but when people are banned from LinkedIn, they will not find the solution on LinkedIn :D because they will not have the access during that problem :D Comment from Marcelo Arias(@marcelo_earth): @busmark_w_nika I want to know it too. Because I heard ... ... about those workflows before Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @jinji_huang  So should I invest into articles? The tool is supposed to help prevent from LinkedIn bans

... think this is a better way than just spending cash on ads. So, then I manually tried to find conversations where my ICP was talking so I posted in wrong threads, got flagged as spam, and eventually got banned. It fucking felt impossible. Every founder knows this pain: the product is ready, but no one knows that it exists, and you don't know where to find them. That's a problem that everyone faces. Most founders think distribution equals ...

... makes pricing easier. Products from anonymous creators compete on price. Products from known practitioners with a track record compete on trust. That's a completely different conversation. Comment from Samir Asadov(@samir_asadov): For specialist/practitioner products this 'brand vs product' framing breaks down the product IS the brand statement. A financial model template built from real deal experience signals more credibility than a thousand brand posts ever could, because the buyer (a CFA with a deal on their desk) reads ... ... were only concerned w/ my wellbeing I'd do the same, but when I have others I'm responsible for, and they themselves have mouths to feed, I think differently about the long term effects of my brand vs

... been going through hell for the last month. I was banned from LinkedIn for excessive activity. For 24 hours For 48 hours For 72 hours For 168 hours - currently waiting until Tuesday, 10 PM CET. The only useful advice I've received from support is to be less active. So I'll have to limit my activity. At the moment, this whole situation motivates me to work on a partial solution some kind of activity tracker, where data wouldn ... ... mean, that you were restricted from PH or LinkedIn? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @arun_tamang  Do you know their quotas? Because I am not there so much so I cannot estimate them. Have never been banned

... consumption logic, and refunds for every app. 2. For 5 years , goods have been stolen from the office. There is no available service that automatically analyzes camera footage and sends alerts about suspicious activity. 3. Risk of a LinkedIn ban due to false positive bot detection. Official support is unhelpful. Need a tool that warns about suspicious activity to avoid losing 11,500 followers. Boris, ProblemHunt Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): Yes, I am building something for 3 because ... ... Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @gostroverhov  thank you, sometimes I am losing my common sense, it is extremely difficult for me to understand this :D Reddit in general  is very strict (esp. moderators), but being banned

... simply write 61 words manually in 1 minute, so I can potentially create 300 to 360 comments with an average length of 10 words in one hour. LinkedIn has been doing this a lot lately. It bans for: number of visits to other profiles number of comments number of likes number of messages number of connection requests sent, etc. My only solution is to tame my daily/weekly activity. Have you faced this too? How did you manage to solve ... ... nika): @gapostolov  Maybe I wouldn't focus on DMs first, they could be implemented later, but thank you for pointing this out. I will try to include it too. :) Comment from George Apostolov(@gapostolov): I have also been banned

... internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn't appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they'd find us. We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough. When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost ... ... gone... F-ing bots... and it's only going to get worst... Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): Not gonna lie, I am fed up with that bot problem. Companies set restrictions, e.g. trying to detect "automated" behaviour and ban

... paid tier. Out of curiosity do you usually prefer a free tier, or a short trial that unlocks the full product? Comment from Takahito Yoneda(@y_taka): Your general versus tailored approach translates perfectly to how I think about SaaS pricing, where it usually comes down to core utility versus

... Last week, one of our users got temporarily banned from a social media platform. Not because she posted spam. Not because she broke rules. Because she automated her posting workflow so aggressively that the platform thought she was a bot. She was using Happycapy to post every 2 hours across multiple platforms. Content generation, scheduling, posting, all on autopilot. The system worked so well she forgot to check if platforms had rate limits. One platform said "nope" and banned

... favour of banning social media for users under 16? Recently, there has been a surge of laws and restrictions targeting social media platforms for young users. Personally, I ve been on social media since I was 11. I can see how much time I wasted on Facebook playing games, but at the same time, I met new people (I went to photoshoots, joined different interest groups, and more). However!! I also have to highlight the things that were not okay ... ... most, because one day I might regret it. That s why this restrictive decision feels like a dilemma to me, considering all the pros and cons social media has brought into my life. Which side are you on? Ban

... hundreds of amazing products launch daily. But we pulled all-nighters with our team (more than coffee did), and we'd love a real shot at Product of the Day. : Making AI use transparent, not banned Protecting people from deepfake scams and false accusations Keeping the internet honest (and a little fun) : Visit our Product Hunt page Drop a comment or question, we answer with paws on deck Repost this so more humans ...