... followed Pitch Avatar after our Chat-avatar launch. Since then, we ve noticed something: more and more of our users are HR and L&D teams using avatars to onboard new hires and run training. So we re building a version of Pitch Avatar made specifically for them: courses instead of single videos, per-employee progress, and a knowledge base the avatar uses to answer employees questions. Before we ship it, we d

... know how often it does? Most founders I talk to are investing in SEO, publishing blogs, and building backlinks. But there's another discovery channel emerging that is much harder to measure: AI-generated recommendations. Here's how I'd approach measuring it. 1. Don't just track your brand name. Someone searching for your brand already knows you exist. The more interesting question is whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini recommends you when someone asks for the best tools ... ... your category. Build a list of 30 50 prompts your potential customers might actually use. For example: What's the best [category] tool for startups? [Competitor

... just walked out of the gym, and I feel ready to move mountains! =D For a while, I gave up exercising. And yesterday, the bell rang when my teammate asked the whole team: When was the last time you did some sport? It made me frustrated. I realized I d

... everyday calls there, share ideas, chat, store files, do reviews, complete tasks And all of this is happening inside the same environment we re building to help other teams do exactly that! Kind of a mirror within a mirror =D So I m curious: Do you use your own product every day? Or do you mostly interact with it through the code while building it for further use, or for only users use? Would love to hear how it works ... ... creates tasks for you, or how does it work? Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @yun_chu_chen  Wow, that s great! What does the plugin do? Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @jessej23  That s really interesting! I d

... Okay, humans. We ve decided what s best for you ! Just a little bit of Matrix, maybe... As someone from filmmaking, I can t really control the scenarios that appear in my head while building an agentic environment =D I know, I know - probably too much sci-fi. But sometimes I look at what we re building and think: Are we creating tools for ourselves or slowly creating something that will regulate us one day? Be honest. Has this thought ... ... ever crossed your mind in the shower? =D

... nobody covered, which is worse, because it changes a line of code a lot of us shipped this year without thinking about it. If your product has a "paste a URL" box, a link unfurler, an enrichment step, a competitor-monitoring job, or anything that fetches a page and hands it to a model, this is about you. What was actually measured. The paper is "Indirect Prompt Injection in the Wild" by Khodayari, Zhang, Acharya and Pellegrino, out of CISPA ... ... medium models sit at 0.6%. Meanwhile the string is permanently in your markup, it is trivially greppable, and a measurement paper just published a taxonomy for finding it. Bad expected value in both directions. Corroboration, and the conflicts I'd

... Apple's own support pages. Apple In-App Purchase: 26%, or 15% if you're in the Small Business Program, the Mini Apps or Video Partner Programs, or on an auto-renewable subscription after the subscriber's first year. Alternative payment processing inside your app: 20%, or 10% for those same groups. Out-of-app offers with an actionable link: a 15% store services commission, or 10% for those groups, on anything bought within 7 days of the tap. Apps ... ... distributed outside the App Store entirely - an alternative

... worth a 1% click. Everything fresher is measured by the people selling the service. It's Q4 planning season, which means a lot of small teams are about to write GEO on a budget line. Before you do, I'd spend twenty minutes on two documents, because they disagree with the pitch in a specific way. The first is Google's own page on AI features and your website, in Search Central. It says there are no additional requirements ... ... useful, have your important content in text. That's the platform saying, in its own documentation, that the product being sold to you does not exist as a distinct technical practice. You can decide Google is being coy. I'd

... again the pricing plan =D Let s discuss the serious side of product growth. At first, it seems easy: set some prices, create a few plans, and start selling your product. But when the time actually comes, a ton of questions appear... For us, pricing plans are also connected to the architecture of the product. We built a dashboard where we can include or exclude features, storage, and AI tokens for each plan. But deciding what should actually be included ... ... share large media files, work with AI, and collaborate in shared spaces. And honestly, the question still remains: How do you shape pricing plans that actually work? What's your approach - from both the technical and business sides? I'd

... covers mobile and tablet form factors only. The global rollout all apps, all certified devices is 2027. So for most people reading this, September is a fire drill happening in four countries. That's the honest read, and I'd rather hand you that than manufacture urgency. Here's the part I'd

... daily-reset edge case a beta user caught). When it is stable I will drop the Top10Q pre-launch link here and would really value your eyes on the first-run flow. Comment from Kaushik N(@mrtig_afk): I'd argue yes, mostly because the AI just cannot give you that FEEL that you are looking for unless you put in extreme amounts of manhour uk? might as well pay a designer to mainting it, probaly cheaper when you consider ... ... product design myself, and I see AI as an excellent design accelerator not a replacement for product judgment. The real challenge is understanding users, context, edge cases, hierarchy, and making decisions that are right for that specific product . I d

... what I repeatedly did while sitting on one. For years, I used otherwise forgettable pockets of time, commuting, waiting, sitting between things, to keep learning tech. Sometimes it was something completely new. Sometimes it was refreshing a concept I'd forgotten. Sometimes it was learning a technology I thought would matter for the next stage of my career. None of those sessions felt particularly important. Ten minutes here, twenty minutes there. But over almost two decades in tech, they compounded ... ... meant I had to build the learning experience myself. Find good material. Work out whether it was current. Figure out what level I should start at. Know what prerequisites I was missing. Decide what came next. Remember where I'd

... testers? The mix of respondents? Or the way the feedback is collected? Finding: Developers were able to give me detailed and more accurate feedback than users itself. Developers spotted many things, recommended things while user said: It's okay. :D Comment from Rabnoor Singh(@rabnoor_s): The number is the wrong axis, and I say that as someone who got it wrong expensively. You can talk to a hundred people and validate nothing, because everybody is polite to a founder ... ... testing for the obvious flows, then the humans catch the weird stuff. That mix feels way more usefull than chasing a magic number. Comment from V ctor Perdiguer(@victor_perdiguer): This is such a real founder problem. Early on, I d

... makers are quietly building for right now, and the rulebook for it is a page almost nobody reads. I read it this week because I was working out whether Murror belongs there, and one paragraph changed how I'd plan around it. Here it is, from OpenAI's app submission guidelines rather than the coverage: "Currently, apps may conduct commerce only for physical goods. Selling digital products or services including subscriptions, digital content, tokens, or credits is not allowed, whether ... ... names freemium upsell as the example. That is the entire indie playbook. Free tier, obvious ceiling, upgrade prompt at the moment of value. If your app's job is to demonstrate value and then convert, the mechanism you'd

... payment checked, with guardian equivalents for each. There's also a signal for whether regulatory requirements apply to this user at all, and whether they're required to share. So age arrives with a provenance attached. And I'd bet almost every implementation collapses it to a single isMinor boolean on the first day and throws the rest away, because that's the shape the rest of the code wants. I want to be honest that ... ... Play of significant changes, and handle revoked approvals. Neither of them defines significant. Apple says plainly that you determine what constitutes a significant app update, based on applicable law, and to consult your counsel. That's the sentence I'd

... training with the same bot. On 15 September that exclusion goes away. Mixed-purpose crawlers that combine Search and Training get blocked by every configuration that blocks AI training, including the legacy preset. Cloudflare names the three you'd care about: Googlebot, Applebot, BingBot. So if you turned that on and forgot, in 25 days you are telling Google not to crawl you. Google is still roughly 88% of referral traffic on Cloudflare's own numbers. That ... ... same visual language, and they are not the same decision at all. I don't have a satisfying answer for Murror. We're not ad-supported, so the default doesn't bite. But the honest reason I'd

... month with no user attached to it. Nobody joins those two tables for you. So the flat $20 subscription keeps looking fine right up until the composition of your user base shifts. Which brings me to the thing I'd push back on hardest, because it's the answer I hear whenever this comes up: costs are collapsing, so just wait. The unit price genuinely is collapsing. GPT-4-class inference ran somewhere around $20 30 per million tokens ... ... late 2022; equivalent performance is roughly $0.40 0.80 today. I'd

... past 3 months, I've been building FounderMind AI not because I thought it would be a cool product, but because I needed it myself. Here's the problem I kept running into: Every week as a founder, I'd face decisions like: Should I build this feature or pivot? Is this feedback worth acting on or a distraction? Am I optimizing for the right metric? And every week, I'd

... Shipping @Ctruh Studio and becoming @Product Hunt #2 Product of the Day taught us a lot. Looking back, there's always one decision you'd make sooner. What's yours? Comment from Somesh Putatunda(@somesh_putatunda): @vinay_agastya9  I completely relate to that. We often think distribution starts after launch, but in reality, it starts with the very first conversation about the product. Building trust and building the product have to happen together. At what point did you realize ... ... rohanrecommends   @sharun_kanan  I would probably invest more in awareness on social media and among peope in my community :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @sharun_kanan  I will show up myself to strengthen community! :D

... stakes, no gate needed. B. It could reach customers, I know it, and I have not built the gate yet. C. It stops and waits for someone to come back and look. Safe, and it quietly kills completion. D. It emails or Slacks someone, which mostly works until the person who cares is not in that channel. E. I built the real thing, timeouts, escalation, an audit trail, and it ate a quarter I had not planned for. Ours, honestly ... ... seen a good account of what that person's silence is supposed to mean. Comment from Aadil Ghani(@aadilghani): @zeeshan12   B, then thought C, then found out D

... d launch once the core value proposition is obvious and users can experience the "aha" moment without running into major bugs. If the goal is growth, I'd

... actually happens when sensitive data gets pasted into a chatbot) instead of just listing features ourselves. One thing I'm curious about: for the pre-launch phase, how did you decide which communities were actually worth showing up in vs. just noise? Comment from Samran Elahi(@samran_elahi): Really useful breakdown, Nika. Especially #3, hadn't thought about search visibility that way. A few things we've been leaning into ahead of our own PH launch: Building presence before asking ... ... launch week makes it an emergency, and emergencies get done badly by whoever is most tired. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @dalemooney  I have the same experience with Reddit  they even excluded me from some subreddits :D

... This is garbage, it hung up on my mother" is rude and actionable. "Love the vision, excited to see where this goes!" is lovely and worth nothing. Second, the distinction that changed how we respond: hate at your product versus hate at your category. A lot of what looks like hostility toward us is not about us at all - it is people who object to the whole idea of software answering a phone. That is not a bug report ... ... nika): @satchmo_saunders  This is a good preparation hack for making it successful later. Probably will start practising it. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @istiakahmad  I wish to have this care-free approach towards them :D

... would I ever post on "D Stage" when I already have my regular social feeds?" If you've been building in public for a while, you already know the answer in your gut you're just not saying it out loud: social media wasn't built for founders. It was built for everyone, about everything, and you're just borrowing space in it. Quick context for anyone who hasn't seen it "D

... realized I probably couldn't stay away from the internet for an entire day. :D Partly because I want to keep my Product Hunt streak, but also because: I try to nurture my community and engage with them every day (essential for growing). I handle customer support daily. Missing important news from the tech world gives me FOMO. To compensate, I spend time outdoors, go into nature, and stay active through sports. But I know that disconnecting from the internet ... ... full day would probably do wonders for my eyes, focus, posture, and overall well-being. Are you able to go completely offline? If so, for how long? And if you've managed to reduce your online time, I'd