... spent most of my budget building the product and have almost nothing left for marketing. For anyone who has been in this situation, how did you get your first users without spending money? Just looking for practical advice ...

... revenue and India is 29% of my install base. Both use 12-hour clocks. So the format is wrong for most of the people actually paying me. The part I can't measure: this guy left a review. How many people opened the app, saw times that looked foreign to them, and closed it without a word? That number doesn't exist anywhere in my analytics. No crash, no error, nothing that shows up in a dashboard. Just a silent ...

... much time do you think we have left before AGI? OpenAI just shipped GPT-6 Astra, calling it "the most intelligent and aligned model in the world." Autonomous computer use, coding, scientific research, and the first model to trigger their "Critical" cybersecurity threshold internally. Anthropic released Fable and Mythos 5.1 within days of it. The pace between releases keeps shrinking. What actually changed with Astra: computer-use tasks run nearly twice as fast, near-perfect scores on several reasoning benchmarks ... ... years away" sound a lot less like a slogan and a lot more like a live question, especially if you build with this stuff every day like I do. So, genuinely: how much time do you think we have left

... decided should always be deterministic, no matter how good the model gets? Comment from Faysal Fateh(@faysal_fateh): I m with you on this. For me, auth, permissions, billing, data deletion and anything that changes state should never be left to AI to figure out. I m happy letting AI handle most of the frontend and even draft a lot of the logic, but the rules themselves need to be explicit and tested. One small interpretation drift in permissions ...

... What do you cook when you only have random ingredients left in your fridge? I often find myself opening the fridge, seeing a few ingredients, and thinking: Okay... what am I supposed to make with this? So I built FrigoFut around a simple idea: instead of starting with a recipe and going shopping for everything, start with what you already have. You add the ingredients in your fridge, FrigoFut suggests recipes you can make, and when you're missing something ...

... whatever system you already use. Still think a CRM integration comes eventually. For now, the tool being standalone is exactly why people seem to actually open it instead of putting it off for later. anyone else deliberately left a feature out of version 1 and had it turn into the actual selling point instead ...

... been an amazing launch day so far, and we have just 4 hours left! A huge thank you to every single person who has supported us with an upvote, comment, share, or kind word. Your support means the world to us. If you're reading this and haven't supported us yet, we'd truly appreciate your upvote and feedback before the day ends. Let's finish strong together! https://www.producthunt.com/prod... ...

... when selected (`Settings > UI appearance > Info panel > Automatically play video previews`); New Shortcuts: - Native Properties (`Alt+Enter`): open the native Properties window for selected items on Windows; New Languages: - Hebrew (` `): full translation with right-to-left layout support (`Settings > General > Language`); UX Improvements: Archive Extraction ZIP extraction now supports encrypted archives and non-UTF-8 file names. - Password-protected ZIP : enter an archive password when extraction requires it; - File name encoding : choose encoding ... ... actions : `Edit card` is shown as an action button, with smaller action buttons overall; - Navigator styling : improved adaptive layout, tab active-state styles in split view, and command palette extension view design; - RTL layout : cleaner alignment for right-to-left

... days left until the Y Combinator application deadline. Are you applying this round? Right now, we are fully in execution mode with VertoX : actively testing and optimizing our speech translation tech for real-world usage while searching for a creative agency to record our product demo video. Despite the busy schedule, I m submitting our application anyway. You literally have nothing to lose by trying. It doesn t matter if you only have an idea on paper ...

... hours left and the support today has gone further than we expected for day one. Thank you to everyone who voted and sent feedback. If you have not jumped in yet, now is the time. And if you have already tried Spira, we would love to hear what worked and what didn't. https://spira.ai/spira-for-produ... Comment from Advin Jadis(@advin_jadis): Great momentum so far. I tried it briefly and the onboarding felt smooth. Curious to see how well ...

... hours left and the support today has gone further than we expected for day one. Thank you to everyone who voted and sent feedback. If you have not jumped in yet, now is the time. And if you have already tried Spira, we would love to hear what worked and what didn't. https://spira.ai/spira-for-produ... ...

... locked to one tool. If you switch to Claude Code from Codex, or from Gemini to Perplexity, you start from scratch. The 8-min demo shows exactly how this works end to end: 4 days left on AppSumo: https://appsumo.8odi.net/m4n0da What other questions can I answer? Eager to listen to your objections or concerns. Comment from Jason Scott(@jason_scott8): I think power users and causal users may view this very differently. Enthusiasts who constantly jump ...

... live on PH Aug 22, so this thread's been good practice at saying it in one paragraph.) Comment from Demetrio Koro(@aktivist): siOsi upload one selfie and it reads your 12-season color type, undertone, gold vs silver, and which hair colors suit you, then grades the actual makeup in the photo (flash cast, oxidation, coverage), which most tools skip. Free, no signup. Built it because every beauty sub has a queue of "what season am I" posts waiting ... ... verified AI disclosure. others will not. over time the receipts with agent transparency outperform on credibility because the alternative

... both content and   product work.   2. Google Search Console I basically live in it. For anything SEO, it's the only honest source of truth   about what's actually happening vs. what I assume is happening.   3. Ahrefs keyword and competitor

... have actually diverged in outcome in the ledger so far and if it's inferred, what's your cold-start before a single divergence has been observed? Comment from Alexander Bering(@alexanderbering): @aadilghani  The reason "edit vs. tell-it-to-revise vs

... churn Rank Reason % of churned customers 1 Did not see value within first 14 days 34% 2 Product was too slow or buggy 22% 3 Lack of onboarding guidance 18% 4 Pricing was unclear or changed 14% 5 Competitor offered a feature we did not have 12% Reason 1: Did not see value within first 14 days (34%) This was the largest category by far. People did not give up because the product was bad. They gave up because they ... ... users to value faster. Reason 2: Product was too slow or buggy (22%) This one surprised us. Not because the product had bugs. Because the bugs were known. The team had deprioritized them. Users did not complain. They just left

... Couple of years ago, I left my role as a Design Manager at Tesla to teach myself software and build Velvet Ai. Because most fashion AI is built on the wrong idea. It learns from clicks, trends, and what other people wear. But style isn t that. Style is personal. It s what you actually wear , repeat, and feel like yourself in. So instead of building another shopping app we started building a personal commerce agent Velvet learns your style ...

... just built https://compeddit.pages.dev/v=1 which helps you track your competitors over reddit your competitors

... 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. Not a parody. A real competitor

... experiment 2 weeks ago. Control group : a two-hour roadmap review meeting. Six people in a room (virtual). We debated features. We argued about timelines. We discussed dependencies. We left feeling productive. Test group : We fed the same roadmap into Claude. No slides. No politics. No one trying to protect their pet project. Just the raw plan. The prompt: "Analyze this roadmap. Identify the three most likely failure points. Use first principles reasoning. Assume we will follow your recommendations without ... ... evidence customers are asking for this. Without these, this is a cost center disguised as a feature." We pulled our customer call transcripts from the past six months. 147 calls. Not one mention of Platform X. We pulled our competitor

... Scott, I recently left my corporate job to solve a problem I am very passionate about - reviews. Specifically, the reviews online shoppers look at before you click "Checkout". Right now, shoppers don't trust 5-star reviews anymore. They leave product pages to scroll Reddit threads and watch YouTube reviews, looking for someone who actually owns the product and has no reason to lie. So I helped create Honestly, which puts the opinions shoppers are already searching for, Reddit threads ...

... need to reach a break even. - How much revenue you want to get. That could help you shape the target of your commercial services. Comment from M nevver Ertun (@munevver_ertuncc): I like the way you framed it around general vs tailored value, that s a really clean way to think about it. For products, it often feels similar: free should help users understand the value, while paid should unlock outcomes they can t easily get on their own. The tricky ... ... dozens of high-quality one-off videos every year. But if you want a 25-hour course on some deeper subject (how to play piano, speak French, etc) this is a different medium entirely. It is hard to consume vs

... responds to their goals and metrics, but the whole industry was built in a way that made it inaccessible to them. I sat with that for a long time before doing anything about it. 18 months ago, I finally left consulting and started building BrandingStudio.ai . It's an AI platform that takes a business through brand strategy, identity, voice, and go-to-market in about an hour. The goal was simple: make what world-class agencies do, accessible ...

... down: your product does not need to be perfect on launch day. It needs to be real. If it solves a genuine problem for real people, the community will see that. PH users are incredibly sharp at spotting authenticity vs hype. My advice from watching dozens of launches: focus on your story. Why did you build this? What personal pain led to it? People connect with founders who build from frustration, not from market research slides. Rooting for you. Drop ... ... genuine engagement before and during launch day. Comment from Imtiyaz (@imtiyazmohammed): @otodidakt_20 absolutely. You can be more prepared in your next launch. Comment from Imtiyaz (@imtiyazmohammed): @priyanka_gosai1  Here's our launch, still an hour left

... plays a significant role in how products appear in Google search results. What surprised us was that AI assistants like ChatGPT were rarely citing Product Hunt in product recommendations. AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Gemini rely on reviews, alternative lists, and structured product information gathered across the web. Product Hunt is strong across all three. In theory, this should make Product Hunt a natural source for AI-driven product recommendations and comparisons. In practice, it was not happening ... ... many tools which systematically run prompts against several AI models daily, and measure visibility of a product within prompts. We're using a new tool called @Gauge . We chose because a) their citation tracking is more useful than the alternatives