... planning the launch. Comment from Emma Pugsley(@you_x_you_i): @adana  Thank you, it's super appreciated! Comment from Emma Pugsley(@you_x_you_i): We've built a website optimisation audit tool. When we did our firstround of user testing, we very quickly discovered that too many audits running at the same time caused it to crash and do nothing. When I say "too many audits" that was 2 at once. In our second

... good. Second: people who trust reviews completely and rarely question them, since they're the ones who need Merzify most and will tell you honestly whether the result actually changes their mind or just gets ignored. Your developer versus user finding matches what I'd expect, though. Developers are trained to find the edge case. Users mostly tell you whether something felt right, which is a different and honestly harder signal to extract, since "it's okay" is often hiding ... ... next two months. Right now, I m running a pilot program with a few companies to gather one final round

... Been reading here for a while, figured I should say hello properly. I'm Khushi. I work on go-to-market at Round Funded, where we help founders raising their first

... seed investors decide who's worth backing, when there's not a fully proven commercial model yet? On August 10, we're sitting down with Liz Wessel , a seed-stage investor and Partner at FirstRound Capital, to unpack exactly that. We'll discuss: What signals actually matter to a seed investor when there isn't much traction to point to yet The traits that separate fundable founders from everyone else at this stage What building and exiting ... ... early-career recruitment platform that raised over $40M before merging with Yello. She then worked closely with founders on go-to-market as a Visiting Group Partner at Y Combinator, before moving into seed investing full-time at

... start. I m building Round Funded, a fundraising platform for founders raising their first

... Would appreciate your opinions and advices. Comment from Shabnam Katoch (@better_shab): Absolutely agree - Yes, selling AI agents here Comment from Khushi Sharma(@khushi_sharma43): btw I work at Round Funded, we help founders find investors for their first

... years ago, I was building a consumer transportation startup in Asia, and ended up raising $12m in a Series A financing from FirstRound Capital . For context, we were looking at investors that had done well in our sector (consumer transportation), and

... module-by-module rewrite suggestions, and dimension scoring across technical depth, project impact, fundamentals, presentation, and differentiators. 3. AI mock interviews It actually use your resume to generate follow-up questions. It adapts based on your target role, interview round (first

... able to manage/fit everything that I wanted to do in my schedule. So I had to "re-organise" some activities and was able to learn something or make myself productive. It includes: Exercising right after waking up (the firstround of exercising, because I train 3 times) Reading a book afterwards (a chapter/or learning new things from a text book/ work book) Having the things I want to complete within my sight  if I want to exercise ... ... full task list. Just three. When I sit down in the morning I am not deciding what to do, I am just doing it. The second one is brutal but effective: no context switching for the

... zoning, different rules, different processes. So we built ReadyPermit.ai paste any US address, get a full buildability and zoning report in 60 seconds. We also just launched Landar.ai for land intelligence. We're bootstrapping from rural Utah, raising our firstround, and learning in public. If you're building in proptech, real estate tech, or AI for regulated industries I'd love to connect. Always happy to trade notes on go-to-market, pricing, or the unique challenges of building ...

... creative content. We ve only soft-launched so far, and current courses were created by myself, the founder. To prepare for our upcoming public launch, we d love the help of the amazing Product Hunt community to publish our firstround of public courses. Our official launch is scheduled for Tuesday, October 21st , and our goal is to have a few great courses live by then. While Swyzel is designed for courses of all sizes, even quick mini-courses ...

... spent half a year building an early version of that. It was a small wearable device that converted neural signals from silent speech into text or voice. Once we had it working in a limited capacity, we raised our firstround of funding and were off to the races. Over the next three years, we built an incredible team, with some of the best PhDs in neuroscience, machine learning, and signal processing. We used our funding to build ... ... most magical thing in the world. The Conversation That Changed Everything After a board meeting in mid-2024, my co-founder Sahaj and I started talking about whether the hardware device was really the right path forward. At

... been working on voice-first AI for a while and our team recently built an autonomous interviewer handle an entire first

... perfect product" trap instead of getting to market fast. Here's what drives me : I was meant to be the founder, but family responsibilities changed that path. Now? I'm living that dream through every client who raises their firstround. My mission is bold : I want the MVPs we build to collectively raise $1M+ in funding. Every successful client is my own entrepreneurial victory. We specialize in web apps and SaaS MVPs that are fast, beautiful, and built ...

... hackathon 160M tokens later it s live Why this matters Finding a co-founder is hard. Finding one you re actually compatible with even harder. YoFounder helps founders avoid painful mismatches by: Asking the right 66 questions (based on FirstRound Capital's and Gloria Lin's framework) Analyzing alignment and conflicts with AI Showing both answers and tailored discussion prompts How it works 1. You invite someone you re considering 2. You both fill the assessment (in any language ...

... always been deep in the hiring trenches. We offer interviews as a service, so we spend a lot of time talking to recruiters and TA leaders. That means we hear it all: resume overload, ghosting, fake experience, endless first-rounds

... Gagan Biyani, co-founder and CEO at Maven, a platform for cohort-based courses (CBCs). Backed by a16z and FirstRound, Maven empowers creators to monetize their expertise by teaching their audience via live and asynchronous video. In just one year, Maven has dozens of creators making over $10k and many who have made over $100k. Previously, I co-founded Udemy, a platform for video-based courses or MOOCs. With over 500 million course enrollments, Udemy was the