... roadmap. What makes feedback relevant to you? The number of testers? The mix of respondents? Or the way the feedback is collected? Finding: Developers were able to give me detailed and more accurate feedback than users itself. Developers spotted many things, recommended things while user said: It's okay. :D Comment from Raffay Sajjad(@raffay_sajjad): Quality over quantity matches what I found too, except my version of the signal wasn't tester count, it was who came back unprompted ... ... what actually happens in the wild. The synthetic pass helps us catch obvious UX friction before we spend scarce founder time on calls, but it never replaces the messy human feedback. Your point about watching behavior is spot

... 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

... badges) VibeLevel Teams (measure and level up your workforce's AI fluency) VibeLevel Campus (university AI competitions where top performers surface directly to companies). If you're a hiring manager who can't tell who actually builds with AI vs. who just prompts ChatGPT to fake it, a founder drowning in inflated resumes, or an engineer who wants a credential that reflects how you actually work I'd love to connect. vibelevel.ai Comment from Rian Robertson(@rianbrob): Spot

... spent months building turns against you. That said I'm launching on Product Hunt June 17th, and I now realize I should have started the LinkedIn presence 3 months earlier. So somewhere in between is probably the sweet spot. Comment from Eli - Artexia Tecnologia(@eli_artexia): My take: unless you're already someone with strong market credibility and genuinely confident enough in what you're building to put your name on the line for it building product-first makes more ... ... also seen founders build a strong personal brand long before the product is ready. It creates awareness, trust, and access but sometimes the attention is on the founder more than the product. I think the sweet spot

... thought we knew We assumed enterprise customers wanted the same things as our small business users, just more of it. More security. More control. More features. We never talked to them. We read blog posts. We looked at competitor pricing pages. We guessed. Here's what we missed: Procurement cycles. Enterprise deals take 6-12 months. We had 30-day sales cycles. We weren't built for that. Security reviews. We needed SOC2. We didn't have it. Customers asked ... ... customer research. You didn't need ten enterprise deals. You needed one honest conversation with someone who actually had to get a vendor approved. Comment from Umadhav Salapu(@umadhav): Classic build trap optimizing for the customer you want vs

... 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

... just letting it rip . I m very curious whether others have struggled with free trial versus freemium and whether doing both is a bad idea (I m leaning towards that being a yes by the way). I also wonder if we are giving away too much for free and should be feature gating more. The challenge then shifts from a pricing perspective vs

... hardest parts of building and launching. So I m curious: * Have you ever been surprised by how users misunderstood something that felt obvious to you? * Did anything actually help you break out of that founder blind spot ? I think there s a lot of hidden learning here. Comment from AJ(@build_with_aj): sometimes it's as simple as forcing yourself to explain it in business language. It's not QA finds 5 bugs a week but 10 make ... ... prod. it's. Users are impacted and it incurs costs, SLA breaches, etc. We prevent that, how, by improving QA Comment from CY(@lightfield): @tinnix_he  This sparked a useful reframing for me: Founder blind spot

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