... Product Hunt! I m Handuo, one of Copus s founders. We launched a version of Copus

... community! I m Handuo, co-founder of Copus. We re launching on Product Hunt this Wednesday, March 11th, and I d love your support. Every like, bookmark, and share is a taste signal. Until now, only algorithms and ad networks profited from yours. Copus

... True Fans" by Kevin Kelly. The idea that you don't need millions of followers to build a sustainable creative career completely shifted how I think about building audiences. It is also one of the core ideas behind Copus helping people build real, engaged communities around the content they care about. What is yours? And what did it change for you? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): I cannot say it is an article or a single book ...

... Thought experiment: if you had to delete all your bookmarks and could only keep 10, which ones would survive? I think the answer reveals a lot about what we actually value vs what we mindlessly save. Most of us have hundreds or thousands of saved links we will never revisit. The ones that would make my cut: - 2-3 reference articles I genuinely go back to regularly - A couple of tools I use weekly - Maybe 1-2 essays that changed ... ... think about something What would your 10 be? And more importantly what does that tell you about the 990 others? Comment from Handuo(@handuo): @lyngeist  That's amazing. Please also save them on Copus

... auth its just device id stored in keychain no accounts needed which keeps onboarding super minimal biggest challenge has been text extraction different sites block scrapers differently. revenucat for subscriptions has been great tbh, saves a ton of time vs rolling your own Comment from nim(@sup_nim): been building a few ios apps under studio.gold three live rn: speakeasy (turns any article url into audio), astrologica (ai personalized daily horoscope podcasts based on ur birth chart), and wordplay (daily ... ... LinkedIn posts in your voice. It's web-based, and I used Next.js, I used Better-Auth for authentication, and I added 3 strategies: email/password, Google OAuth and LinkedIn OAuth. I used PostgreSQL as the database and Polar (Stripe alternative

... just started shouting out random products that they vibed with rather than necessarily actually used just to help those products get more exposure after their launch? Comment from mina(@minach): This clicked for me ,especially the tradeoff between big vs small products. I've been building a productivity/automation tool and hadn't thought about shoutouts as a distribution layer beyond launch day. The founder review mechanic is underrated. It's essentially evergreen content tied to a product page that compounds ... ... background while you guys hang out. I'm actually adding more clips on a daily basis curious to know, which channel is your favorite so far? Comment from Handuo(@handuo): 100% yes on shoutouts. We are launching Copus

... matter in tech. When you build tools that millions of people rely on daily, the decisions you make about ethics aren't abstract they directly shape what's possible. As builders ourselves, we think a lot about this at Copus. We chose to build a platform where creators own their content and curation is transparent. Not because it was the easiest path, but because we saw what happens when platforms optimize purely for engagement without guardrails. The companies that take ...

... stadium. Good luck with Curatora, you ve got this Comment from Hellen charless(@hellen_charless): First of all I love how thoughtfully you re approaching this. That already separates you from launch and pray founders. Your question about strategy vs timing vs

... social media, and manages my spreadsheets while i sleep. sounds insane but after a few weeks you stop thinking about it the same way you stopped thinking about autofill having your credit card. the real question isnt trust vs no trust, its what guardrails you set up. mine cant send emails without me approving the draft first. cant post publicly without a review step. but it can read, organize, research, and draft freely. thats the line that works ... ... your interpretation of it. That's where most founders get stuck. Do you find they trust the numbers too much, or not enough? Comment from Henrik Pedersen(@henrikpedersen): The distinction I keep coming back to is read vs

... forward hopefully that day isn t too far away :) Comment from fzero17(@fzero17): My first vibecoded project was OpenFolder a macOS menu bar app that turns your desktop into a calm personal launchpad. I built it using GitHub Copilot + VS Code, which felt like coding with a quiet partner who always had my back. The hardest part wasn t the code, but building something truly minimal yet delightful to use. I released it commercially on the Mac App Store ... ... launching on PH this week, so full circle. Wouldn't call it "money from that first version" though, that one barely resembled what exists now. Curious how many other people here started completely outside software like I did vs