... Nico s thread this week (green tests, 5.5 hours down) reminded me of a smaller version of the same problem on the B2B AI product I manage. The scene: a data preparation job finishes and the row turns green with Completed . The customer reads that as checked and safe to use . It means ran without errors . Weeks later someone asks why a model was trained on a version nobody signed off on, and the status page says everything was fine ...

... everyone, I'm Nicholas, a student developer from Kenya building native Android apps under Saint Nico Labs. I made Verdly because most habit trackers die after week two. The idea is that habits stick better with someone else involved: Duo streaks with a friend or partner Challenges with friends A focus mode with a plant that grows while you stay on task A trophy hall so progress feels earned It's built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose ...

... everyone. I'm Nico, Argentinian, living in Costa Rica. Most mornings I'm surfing by 6, and then I get to work. I've been building digital products for 12+ years: healthcare, government, fintech, media. I started out writing and laying out HTML, CSS and Sass, then moved into product design and leading design teams. Today I call myself an AI Product Builder : I take a problem and ship it to production. That's how I built Alisio , a multi ... ... people who try it and tell me what's confusing or broken. For those who launched here before: what did you do in the weeks after launch that actually helped? Comment from Amanda Phillips(@amanndaphillips): Welcome back to PH Nico

... random adventures, and not so strict fixed plans How do you use these holidays? For work? For relaxation? What have you accomplished? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @glisten_jose  Having my fingers crossed for you! :) Comment from Nico Lumma(@nico

... Complete Travel Toolkit   https://tripsy.app/ @TrustMRR  The database of verified startup revenues   https://trustmrr.com/ @Type.link  Create your site from amazing widgets   https://type.link/ @ViralSort  Discover Instagram content that worked for your competitors   https://www.viralsort.com/ There were even more tools I loved, but some domains expired, or the projects quietly disappeared in the meantime. Overall, the Entertainment/Fun category completely dominated my favourites this year. What about you? Which 2025 launches blew you away? Which ... ... nika  Yes, though I use it mostly for work-related thoughts and not really for anything emotionally related like my moods or stuff. Comment from Felicite Moorman(@felicitemoorman): Lovely walk down memory lane! Thanks, Nika! Comment from Nico

... powerful features coming up, and we can t wait to share them with you. Come try out YouMind we d love to be your companion on the journey of creation Comment from Shabnam Katoch(@shabb_katoch): grats on launch nico love the backstory tbh, feels super genuine. wishing u + the team lots of wins ahead Comment from M. Qasim(@m_qasim67): Congrats Nico

... build mobile apps. Soon hitting 50 new signups daily. All these signups came with massive LLM costs. Starting with just ~$4K, we burned through 30% of our budget in the first week with only $260 MRR. Our well-funded competitors offered 5 free code gen requests daily (30/month), while we provided just 1 request/user lifetime. Talked to users, they wanted to explore platform for free but even with our minimal free tier, costs were eating up our savings. Traffic kept ... ... blogs. We approached VCs but got no replies. We pivoted to a paid-only model after burning 60% of our funds. Still getting ~50 daily signups from our @daily.dev blog, but users expected the same free plans as competitors

... gets you to a working product. everything after that is the same grind it always was. the code is maybe 20% of shipping something real Comment from Sean Hwang(@seanphwang): @emikes919  Awesome. Will check him out! Comment from Nico Estrada(@nico

... video calls, but there was a niche of people who used Skype to make cheap international calls to mobile and landline numbers. That was a golden opportunity major playing leaving the market, and its users scrambling for an alternative. That s how I made Yadaphone. I took one feature of Skype I used myself making cheap overseas calls, and created a website that allowed people to do it. Launch I built an MVP in a weekend. The design was minimalist ... ... real lucky for first time. One of users, became a super-fan of my product. He started giving a lot of feedback and promoting my app among his friends. His testimonial is still featured on my landing page (hi Nico

... intend to accomplish by the end of 2025? Comment from Alexandru Rada(@alxrda): What are the efforts to deal with spam and bots getting after you outside ProductHunt to get your vote? Comment from Gabe Perez(@gabe): @nico_jeannen I ll do an AMA on this next Comment from Rajiv Ayyangar(@rajiv_ayyangar): @zeeb0t  what was your latest launch and the copy-cat? Hard to give context without specifics. Comment from Hussein(@hussein_r): @matthew_gordon   @luke_arwayda ... ... need to know whether you can build it. There were numerous other lessons we learned from YC, and many lifelong friends. But overall I think my takeaway was: speed. Also: launch sooner! Comment from Rajiv Ayyangar(@rajiv_ayyangar): @nico