... started this project as a developer. But somewhere along the way, I realized that building the product was only one small part of the job. I ended up doing development, product management, marketing, sales, customer discovery, operations and even figuring out the business model myself. I'm sharing the journey through the product I've built because there has been a lot to learn , especially from failures. It started

... everyone Just shipped Netfox 0.20.0 and this one adds something the app structurally could not do before. The server you forgot you started A test run finishes, you close the terminal, and something it started

... vibe check. I didn't know he was launching a venture studio. After hearing the idea, he said: If you build it, I ll invest. A DM can change everything. March I handed in my notice. We started building during weekends and evenings. We spoke to developers, agencies and consultants before creating a prototype. It worked. It wasn t yet delightful, but it worked. Because we had vibe-coded it, every change broke something else. We had to rebuild ... ... founder. Through the YC ecosystem, I met Mariana: an applied maths genius who had been working in AI before it was cool. We convinced her to join. July We launched here on Product Hunt and finished sixth, despite starting

... last year i was randomly visiting a website and couldnt download a video in hd quality. then as a dev, when something doesnt work, you think "let's build it." so i got the same thought. i started researching idea validation and found like 0.2% of websites actually worked fine, but they were full of shitty ads. i thought this is the perfect market , we should go all in. and when i checked their traffic i got shocked , cause they ... ... werent getting one or two million, they were getting tens of millions. after some weeks of confusing "thinking" with actual progress, and a lot of procrastinating, i finally started

... Yesterday, you contributed a lot to my discussion about not sounding too salesy. But that's not the only problem the early founders have. They usually do not know when to start promoting, or simply do not have the courage to start

... 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

... Some of the most notable examples of today s wealthiest entrepreneurs started relatively later in life. (e.g. Jeff Bezos in his 30s) But the speed of today s world (driven by technology and information) is changing that. We re now seeing teenagers, sometimes as young as 15  16, building real businesses. In some cases, it almost feels illegal compared to traditional expectations. :D A lot of students are choosing summer projects over internships, partly because trust in traditional employment ... ... stable than before. Frequent layoffs and rapid shifts in industries seem to have changed how people think about career security. TBH, I wouldn't trust a "regular job" either. So their experience with business is often minimal, but they start

... action-class, or infer them from which conditions 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

... developer companies would want to hire. I truly believed that if I became good enough, opportunities would eventually come. That sounded logical. Work hard. Improve. Become valuable. Get opportunities. Simple. At least that was what I thought. But reality started feeling very different. Whenever I got an interview opportunity, I treated it like one of the most important events in my life. I wasn t preparing for interviews for an hour or quickly reviewing common questions. Sometimes I spent ... ... technologies they used. I tried understanding their products, their stack, possible technical questions, and every scenario I could think of. I wanted to remove every possible reason for failure. Because when you spend months searching for opportunities, every interview starts

... publicity.) In any case, building products has become much easier from a technical perspective, which also makes it cheaper especially for software startups. In many cases, all you really need is ChatGPT or another AI model ( $20 ), a domain (starting around $10 ), some DNS or hosting services (sometimes from $50 ), and your own time. The basic costs can realistically stay around $100 . But the fact that the building is more accessible also creates overcrowding, which means you then have ... ... invest much more time and money into marketing. What would you estimate is the minimum budget needed to start

... started from something frustrating: creating content felt very annoying and time-consuming. We tried the classic way: scripting, memorizing, filming, editing. But none of it felt authentic. And honestly, it was eating time we needed to focus on other things. At the same time, we kept reading the same advice everywhere: "founders should build in public and create content consistently". Easy to say but harder to do in reality. So instead of forcing ourselves to create content from scratch ... ... surprised us was how much easier it became. The content felt more natural, and it didn t feel like extra work anymore. That s how @ProdShort was born. It made us realize that many product ideas probably don t start

... build the hard thing. Comment from Piyush Gajrani(@piyush_teq): @busmark_w_nika Most founders don t fail at brand vs product they fail at timing clarity. Knowing when to show up vs

... When we first started building Murror, I spent a lot of time studying other AI wellness apps. I tracked their features, analyzed their onboarding flows, and mapped out where we could differentiate. I thought our competitive advantage would come from being smarter, faster, or more accurate than them. I was completely wrong about where the real competition was. Our biggest competitor

... thought we were ready. Bigger deals. Fewer customers. Better margins. That was the dream. So we built enterprise features. SSO. Advanced permissions. Audit logs. A whole new pricing tier starting at $2,000/month. We spent 6 months. Three engineers. One dedicated product manager. Endless meetings about "enterprise readiness." We launched the tier. Sent emails to our biggest users. Ran LinkedIn ads targeting "Head of IT" and "VP of Infrastructure." Zero. Not one signup. Not even a demo request from ... ... 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

... this guide isn't just a quick summary. We're going to go deep. We'll explain exactly what Snaply is, how it works, why privacy matters so much for dictation tools, how it stacks up against every major alternative, who it's best for, and how to get the most out of it. Whether you're a solo professional, part of a team, or evaluating dictation software for an enterprise deployment, this is the most complete breakdown ... ... find. Table of Contents Why AI Dictation Matters in 2026 What Makes a Truly Great Dictation App What Is Snaply? Snaply's Core Features: In Depth Why Privacy Is Non-Negotiable for Dictation Snaply vs

... high. Claude (Sonnet 4.6 then Opus 4.5) fixed a small CSS bug in 30 seconds. Then refactored a messy function into something readable. We felt like geniuses. By end of day, it had shipped 3 minor improvements. We started talking about cutting engineering costs. Day 2: The first crack. We asked Claude to add a new filter to our dashboard. It wrote the code. It worked locally. We merged. That night, something else broke. A completely unrelated chart stopped loading ... ... external APIs in loops where a batch request would have been fine. No error. Just expensive. Day 4: The silent failure. We asked Claude to optimize our database queries. It wrote better SQL. Things ran faster. Then user emails started

... 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

... last 10 years. Make a list. Email them personally. 3. Product Hunt: The Launch That Changed Everything We launched on Product Hunt 3 months ago. Day 1 was chaos. Day 2 was worse. But then something happened: People started commenting. Really smart people. Founders building in AI, SaaS, dev tools. One comment led to a DM. That DM led to a 2-hour call. That call led to our first enterprise customer. The numbers from that launch: Metric Value Upvotes ... ... Comments 80+ DMs from founders 40+ New customers from launch 28 Enterprise leads 4 Free resource: Don't just launch and leave. Reply to every comment. DM everyone who engages. The launch is the start

... marketing problem. They think: "Let the SEO team handle it." Here's why that's wrong: Your product is being evaluated by AI every single day. When potential users ask: "What's the best tool for [your category]?" "Alternatives to [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

... Over the past three months, I've spoken with 50+ agencies using Rankfender. Most started the same way: a client asked "are we showing up in ChatGPT?" and they had no answer. Now? Many have built entire new service lines around AI visibility adding 2k, 5k, even 10k in monthly recurring revenue. Here's exactly how they're doing it. The Opportunity Why this matters for agencies: Metric Value Brands that don't know their AI visibility 78% Clients asking ... ... Average monthly retainer for AI visibility audits 1,200 2,500 Average monthly retainer for ongoing AI visibility + content 2,500 5,000 First-mover advantage is real. The agencies offering this now are locking in clients before competitors

... builders here, which usually means at some point we looked at something clunky, slow, or frustrating and thought, there has to be a better way. Most products don t start with a grand vision; they start

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... just added a new "Starting Options" modal to FigForm to make the very first step of form building less... intimidating. When you create a new form and open the Design page, you'll now be asked: "How would you like to start

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