... other people's launches. Mistake one: I treated the launch as the marketing, not a moment in an existing marketing motion. I had no list, no audience, no warm network on PH. 63 upvotes was basically my friends plus luck. Mistake two: my tagline described the category ("AI-powered project management") instead of a result. Nobody clicks a category. Mistake three: I launched on a Tuesday because "Tuesday sounds good." I had no idea what else was launching that ... ... older and came for an occasion. So I would split the job: let the category words help people find you, and make the tagline itself the result, because the tagline decides who clicks and stays. Good luck

... writing short, personal posts on Threads. One story about my family got over 300k views and brought more signups than everything else combined. Posts that explain features barely get noticed. But I can't tell if that was luck or something I can repeat. What's worked best for you as a solo founder? Paid ads, content, communities, cold outreach, something else? And what did you try that turned out to be a waste of time? Comment from George Basov ... ... taught me what your Threads post suggests too: who the message reaches matters more than how many. A family story reaching 300k is a real signal, I'd post a few more of the same kind before calling it luck

... experience, launch page comments tend to be either congratulatory and good luck or ask a question that has been asked before in the description. Both are very nice comments, but neither provide the creator any value. The comment that singles out a specific component is much more valuable. Noting that the export screen saved you a step that you would typically take in Excel tells the creator how to preserve their creation. Likewise, noting where in the process you were ... ... decision once it stops being true. One addition for launch pages: if you haven't tried the product yet, say what you would want to know before trying it. That is still more useful to the maker than good luck

... Apprentice (2024) the movie about Donald Trump :D Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @adana  I found it in our local websites, but itis only in CZ :D https://www.sledujfilmy.io/filmy... Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): Luck plays some role in success, but work is 99%. The Pursuit of Happyness is a great movie for this topic! :) Comment from Maria Anosova (@maria_anosova): This is ten percent luck

... often check PC hardware on the second-hand market, and a genuinely good deal can disappear in less than an hour. I wanted a fast way to see whether the price is actually good, compare the hardware with alternatives, and check what similar options cost at retailers. So I still use the product for the same problem that made me build it in the first place. And I keep finding things to improve because of that. Comment from Paul Kovalenko ... ... Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @patrick_buckley3  Wow! I checked out your landing and really liked it, especially the seasonal calendar and recommendations. I'll give it a try! Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @stan_xu1  good luck

... what gets cited. It's a correlation and they say so themselves. But it matches what I see. My team crawled around 70k SaaS blogs recently. In one category a tool had 152 articles linking to it. Its direct competitor had zero. What bugs me is how people react. They buy mentions from a catalog sorted by DR. ChatGPT has no idea what DR is. It reads the pages it pulls up for that exact question. For those ... ... Comment from Artem Fedorovich(@artem_fedorovich): @alieksia  Anastasiia I wouldn't wait. The free part is what he'd list anyway and his table has only three tools in it. Worst case he says come back later. Good luck

... learn to read the board. Here's the part we can't settle internally. Strictly speaking, we added more randomness, not less: random cards, and hazard tiles placed fresh every match. But to us it feels less like luck, because you get to respond to what the dice did. So, a question for anyone who has designed or just played a lot of casual multiplayer games: is "luck

... runs of the same request on the same commit, two diffs that do not match, and most of us file it under luck. A leaderboard published this month put a count on that luck

... 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

... have the proper resources back then, to hire a proper designer. And it feels more comfortable to design things that my users are going to use Comment from Prharsha(@gsvprharsha): @adana  Thank you! Best of luck to you too! Comment from Matheus Paranhos(@matheus_paranhos1): I see! AI gets you to a decent first pass, but I've been through the drift when every new screen gets a fresh prompt. A small design system helped keep the language coherent ... ... value. Even bringing one in for a few key screens, user flows, or a design system can make the product feel much more polished and intentional. So for me, it s less about AI vs

... break top 5. Thursday needs 235. That's a 70-point gap just from picking a different day. Weekends aren't just easier, they're way less crowded Tuesday averages 30.4 launches a day. Saturday averages 10.7. Fewer competitors, lower bar, most of the effect comes from volume, not some algorithm quirk. If you can't launch on a weekend, Friday is your best bet 205 median points for top 5, the lowest of any weekday and noticeably easier than ... ... Thursday. Tuesday's hidden trap Tuesday has more total launches than Monday (1,064 vs

... market: I speak Portuguese, Mariana is Portuguese and my wife is Brazilian. We ran a test in Portuguese. We recruited 100s of Brazilian users in three weeks, mainly thanks to Ting on WhatsApp. IYKYK . December Based on competitors communications, social activity and web traffic, Ting appeared to have become the most-used scheduling agent of its kind. But the category was filling up. Sequoia had backed a competitor

... doesn t feel like a pattern yet. It feels like an anecdote you re not allowed to trust. So, to everyone who s had this exact moment: when did 2 or 3 or 5 early customers stop feeling like luck and start feeling like a real signal? What actually convinced you it wasn t a fluke? Comment from Hossein Yazdi(@hosseinyazdi): Two paying customers is definitely data, just not enough data to confidently call it a trend. I d look ... ... come from the same channel? Same use case? Did they buy for the same reason without you pushing it? If yes, that s the beginning of a pattern. If no, it s still learning, just noisier. The shift from luck

... replacement for them. It plans the work, does the work, and holds anything customer-facing in an approval queue until a human says go. Because unsupervised sending is the thing nobody actually wants, they just put up with the alternative. Product Hunt page: https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Your turn. Curious what the real origin story looks like for others: What problem pushed you to build? Who kept telling you it was painful before you finally listened? What's the part ... ... person session where two analysts can hand the same face different verdicts. That gap annoyed me enough to build the thing that just looks: one selfie your 12-season type, undertone, gold vs

... suddenly lose access to all AI. But what happens if , one day, access to the leading American models is restricted more broadly? We would still have European models, open-source systems we can operate ourselves, and Chinese alternatives. But there is no guarantee that another major power would never make the same decision to protect its own strategic advantage. AI is no longer just another software category. It is becoming infrastructure. It will shape education, healthcare, national security, research ... ... world are American, and Europe should continue working closely with the United States. But cooperation and dependency are not the same thing. Technological sovereignty does not mean refusing to use foreign technology. It means having a real alternative

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... bound to fall behind. I call this the "entry phase." Like you, I successfully navigated this stage. However, the next challenge awaits: conversion. Anyone with experience in e-commerce knows that the 4P strategy is used to boost conversions. Alternatively, one can keep the conversion rate constant (mine, for instance, is a very average 5%)and focus on maximizing impressions. External advertising and social media activities are examples of ways to maximize impressions. I have recently begun testing in this ... ... with terms like PoC, MVP, and PMF. Personally, I used to find these concepts rather vague and abstract. While some might be lucky enough to find the right fit quickly, others might not; skill certainly plays a role, but luck

... feel everything needs to be juuuuust right to gain some momentum on a PH-launch. Looking back, my platform absolutely wasn't ready when I first found out about this platform. I'm happy i waited Best of luck to you! Comment from Alexander Bickov(@bickov): I'd add one thing that mattered more than any of it for me: can you say in one sentence the exact moment someone reaches for this? I launched mine "ready" by basically your ... ... totally a newbie in tech coming from the Cannabis space. But I'm a serial entrepreneur with great ideas and i created a solution to help us better know who we can trust and engage with online. Wish me luck

... their servers? What happens if a government somewhere issues a request the provider is legally required to comply with, possibly under a gag order you'd never even hear about? How seriously does that provider actually take your privacy versus their own convenience, uptime, or ad business? Most people never ask these questions, because "it's in the cloud" has quietly become synonymous with "it's safe," when really it just means "someone else has a copy, under rules ... ... personally handle this? Do you rely mainly on tools (password managers, 2FA, encryption), on habits (double-checking links, being suspicious by default), on keeping sensitive data off the cloud entirely, or honestly a bit of everything plus some luck

... across it, so nothing external explains it. And 20 against my 6 was never going to be the difference between comments and 2 views. What is left is when you posted and who happened to be reading. Which is luck, and I do not love it as an answer, but it fits the evidence better than anything I said. The 15 followers in a day is the part I keep turning over, because it runs backwards from how people talk ... ... part that differs. A product forum lands in a room that already exists. General waits for someone to scroll past it. Same points, different room. Comment from Abdullah Javaid(@abdullah_javaid3): @alieksia   @jernej_jan_kocica  Supply versus

... median points needed to break the top 5 and top 10 on each day. Check the full report here: https://app.databox.com/shared/a... The short version: Saturday is the easiest day. Only 266 median points to crack top 5, vs 360 on Wednesday. That's a 35% harder climb on the worst day vs

... plain static landing page), but jumping into the Thursday launch window too. NilaMind is a fully on-device, privacy-first mental-health companion no account, no backend, no analytics. Scheduled to launch here on Thursday, July 16. Good luck to everyone shipping this week! Comment from sujith(@su_jith1): @jacqueline_v_twillie   Thanks so much for the interest, that genuinely means a lot. Here's the install link: github.com/sampathmannam/nilamind NilaMind is an Android app and the AI runs ... ... expensive problems, not just track spending after the fact. Built with Next.js , deployed on Vercel , and powered by AI to give personalized financial insights, planning, and recommendations. Looking forward to seeing all the amazing launches this Thursday. Best of luck

... waitlist tho :D Which countries for travelling are on your list? :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @rnagulapalle  How do you want to achieve those 5k monthly visitors? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @tina_chhabra  Good luck with the community building! It is a marathon! :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @shikha_shandilya  When you mentioned LinkedIn  are we connected? :) I want to be more connected with people who are into this platform :) Love ... ... upon Tibo's blog and it gave me the final push to stop overthinking and start building. My plan is simple: - find a real problem - validate it - build it - ship it Let's see where this journey goes, good luck

... trying to do with my upcoming Chrome extension for LinkedIn. I don t know if it will take off, so I want to go with the most cost-efficient stack possible. Could you recommend the best low-cost alternatives for infrastructure and launching? Databases Payments/money management (I m currently considering Stripe) Analytics Hosting and domains? If there are other essential tools I m missing, feel free to add them. I m especially open to dev advice since my experience here ... ... just cheap. Early on, your biggest cost usually isn't infrastructure. It's your time. I'd rather pay a little more for a service with great documentation and a smooth developer experience than spend days debugging a cheaper alternative

... mentionned restrictions and stuff, they might be offended by it and make it shutdown. There's plenty of way to protect against that, so as an advice, I would strongly suggest their detection method and avoid triggering them. Good luck with your launch! Comment from Rabnoor Singh(@rabnoor_s): Bullet two is the one I would change, and it is a small change. The upgrade button pointing at a waitlist collects the cheapest signal there is. Joining costs nothing ... ... sells itself. And watch what people do right after they open it, not what they say in the replies. I'm launching DukieX on Product Hunt this Wednesday, so I'm deep in this exact question right now. Good luck