... started from something frustrating: creating content felt very annoying and time-consuming. We tried the classic way: scripting, memorizing, filming, editing. But none of it felt

... games, adding new mechanics, polishing feel, and shipping fun features. What I hate? App store top charts. After shipping my first mobile game, I got buried in search results. I spent way too many nights manually checking rankings, stalking competitors, rewriting metadata, and still felt

... something feels missing. At first, we thought it was about accuracy. Maybe the voice wasn t close enough. But the more we listened, the clearer it became - that wasn t the issue. The issue was how it felt. The tone stays a bit too samey. The emphasis doesn t always land where you expect it to. And the little natural shifts that make your voice yours just aren t fully there yet. It sounds right, but it doesn t feel ...

... Tried everything for long-distance hangouts and nothing felt right. Google Meet and Zoom felt

... when i wanted to use Codex or Cursor 3, it was not able to show git diff properly, also i was not able to use Cursor's cloud agents properly to ship complex features. So after a while i felt that i need to change my setup and i read about git subtrees, it was such a game changer! now i have 3 repos only, one mono repo and two customer facing sdk-s, but i work on the monorepo ... ... dependency graph. For those shipping SDKs: do you find that keeping the SDK code in the same monorepo helps the AI write better integration tests, or does it get confused by the different environments (e.g., std for SDK vs

... them stay. When I started building saas, I didn t know what would happen. I was just one person, sitting with a laptop, trying to build something simple. I had a job before. Life was okay. But inside, I felt something was missing. So I left that path and started this, not knowing where it would go. The early days were quiet. I built, I changed things, I made mistakes. Many things didn t work. Many nights felt

... Last month, I did something that felt slightly insane. I took our product description, fed it into ChatGPT, and asked it to build a competitor

... analytics dashboards. Real conversations where we just listened. What we learned in those five hours changed everything: Users did not want more features. They wanted fewer features that actually understood them. 2. The language we used in our prompts felt clinical. People wanted warmth, not precision. 3. Our onboarding assumed people knew what emotional reflection was. Most did not. We spent the next month rebuilding almost nothing in terms of code. Instead, we rewrote every piece of copy. We changed ... ... later works until the thing you shipped trains users to expect something that doesn t scale. We wrestled with this a lot building Hello Aria, our AI productivity assistant for WhatsApp/iOS. Moving fast early meant we shipped features that felt

... clearly dropped. But the more I use these tools, the more it feels like speed isn t the limiting factor anymore. The real constraint seems to be taste. what do you choose to build? what do you keep vs discard? what actually feels right vs

... context. Most tools capture what happened in a meeting. Very few help you remember how it actually went - the hesitation before the yes, the energy shift when pricing came up, the personal detail mentioned in passing, the thing you felt but would never type into a CRM. That s why I built Attuno . It lets you do a quick voice or text debrief after an important interaction, then turns that into a sharp pre-meeting brief before the next ... ... goal is simple: walk into every follow-up knowing exactly where you left off and exactly what to say. Not what was said. What was felt

... community I'm Adarsh, founder of CommunityTracker . I want to share what we've been building and genuinely hear what you think especially if you've felt this problem yourself. The problem we kept running into Every founder and growth person I talked to was doing some version of the same thing: Manually scrolling Reddit and Slack to find relevant conversations Running half-broken n8n workflows with keyword alerts Checking competitor

... Road to 1,000,000 Votap users Day 49 | Current: 1250 I felt extremely busy last week and realized I barely did anything. We said: Let s reach out to as many VCs and angels as possible. Sounds productive, right? But your brain doesn t understand that. What does many mean? Who exactly? Where do we find them? What do we say? How many per day? I realized the plan has to be almost stupidly simple. So we sat down ...

... much involvement of the user paid = depth, scale, automation, prioritization, with more involvement from the user to drive value If you gate too early and then conversion will suffer. Users can t pay for value they haven t properly felt yet. Comment from swati paliwal(@swati_paliwal): @busmark_w_nika love the threads you start on PH! Comment from Pratham Khodwe(@pratham_khodwe): This is such a real problem. As creators (and builders), we re constantly walking a thin line ... ... with the free/paid split they struggle to gather current competitor

... everyone, Have you ever had one of those days where the world just felt too loud? A day where your mind is racing with a million "what-ifs," or maybe a day where something wonderful happened, but you weren't quite ready to share it with the world yet? I ve been there. Many times. I ve tried journaling in notebooks, but I often worried about someone finding them. I tried using big-name note apps, but they felt

... Self-centred update today, but adding the top Product Hunt badge to our site felt real good. See bottom right of image, also online here: meet-ting.com Thanks again, gives us pride and satisfaction. Dan, Ting + Team Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @marianaprazeres   @dbul  IMO would be cool how much attention people pay to product hunt badge and announcements. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): Congratulations! Do you somehow track how people react to the various page elements ...

... first COVID batch) as a solo founder working on @Basedash . After YC, I did what you re supposed to do. I talked to users. I built product. I did founder-led sales. I hired a great team. It felt like progress because I was constantly busy and the product kept getting better. But then the graph didn t move. Here s what our MRR chart looked like over the first four years: Looking back at this chart is pretty embarrassing ... ... zoom out and the KPIs are basically flat. Over time, we got better at converting effort into revenue. Near the end, we sort of figured out how to grow, but it didn t feel like a machine. It felt

... because I couldn't see a future in it. I looked for any Analytical Chemists I could find in the country, but couldn't find any. Plus, we are an agriculture-based economy. So what was the point? It felt like time-wasting. Broke, desperate, I started doing iWriter content gigs. I had never written before, but I always felt

... Product Hunt! I m the maker of Sage I built Sage after realizing something uncomfortable: Most productivity tools worked But they made me feel worse using them. Timers felt aggressive. Streaks felt

... Retour The hardest part wasn t building it was knowing what users actually felt Post As a builder, I underestimated how messy user feedback gets once real people start using your product. Not because users don t care but because feedback shows up everywhere : Slack DMs Random emails One-off messages after meetings By the way comments that never get written down The real problem for me wasn t collecting feedback it was losing context, urgency, and patterns ... ... time I reviewed things, the emotion was gone and decisions felt

... Jariwala(@starchet): @keshaha08 fantastic Comment from Kishor Kumar Khadka(@kishor_kumar_khadka): Here's my current stack: @Windsurf @Next.js @shadcn/ui @Vercel @github @PostHog I might have forgotten a few... But there you go. Comment from Rico(@ricoboost): Claude code + vs code: Next JS for front end Express hosted on railway for backend BullMQ for task management on upstash Comment from Jumoke Amanda Adekanye(@jumkye): I literally went from idea to launch in 24 hours with ChatGPT + Lovable to build ... ... thrivewithai.xyz/ I enjoyed every minute of it, especially tweaking prompts on Lovable to get the best output. Comment from Atanu Roy(@atanuroy): Gemini CLI and VS

... physical products. I worked on the Apple Vision Pro, I invented a robotic basketball trainer for Hoopfit, and I created analog tools at Noble Crafters. But every time I applied to YC, I heard back no. Eleven YC rejections felt like enough. Besides, I had recently started a job at Amazon, where I liked the people and the work. And I had already learned a lot about businesses by starting them (and failing many times). My guiding principle ... ... life worth living. Getting into YC was just one step, not the entire staircase. Ironically, I think it s exactly that kind of non-attachment that helped me finally get in with number twelve. Here s what felt

... getting really frustrated with the subscription fatigue that comes with using tools like Restream, Streamyard, etc. Paying $30, $50, or even more every single month just to unlock basic features like removing branding or adding more destinations felt unsustainable. It felt

... actually got this crazy idea to work. It was a pair of headphones that you put on, and when you silently speak, it would convert your brain signals into a voice that sounds exactly like you. It literally felt like magic. The Hard Truth About Hardware But that was the problem. As soon as we had it working, we hooked it up to ChatGPT, Siri, and Alexa. The results weren t great. Because the stuff in your mind is extremely ... ... that, we weren't even a consumer software company. By January, we were seeing long posts on LinkedIn and X about how the product had changed people s lives. We also saw ~20% of our users convert to paid (vs

... answers were stronger. At the end, Gustaf asked, Would you like to do YC? We said yes and from there on it was Welcome to YC. We couldn t believe it. We screamed. We jumped. We hugged. It felt like years of dreaming and building had finally clicked. The Launch That Broke Everything A few days into the batch, we launched SigmaOS on Bookface. Early feedback was strong. The founder of Codecademy signed up, which felt

... code write itself? In my mind, AI coding assistants were meant to assist me (suggest a snippet here, autocomplete a line there), not replace the real work. The idea of surrendering the driver s seat to an AI felt like an affront to my hard-earned coding skills. I ll admit it: I was revolted by the very notion of vibe coding at first. I wasn t alone. Plenty of seasoned programmers on Twitter (X) feed were rolling their eyes ... ... going with the flow. I had spent years honing the craft learning algorithms, writing unit tests, agonizing over naming variables so the suggestion that one could simply give in to the vibes and let AI handle the heavy lifting felt