... came across a survey of over 600 revenue-generating bootstrapped SaaS founders, and one statistic stopped me: 90% of bootstrapped SaaS ventures have at least one developer on the founder

... Founders are expected to do more than just build a product today : Build in public. Post on LinkedIn. Make videos. Grow a personal brand. Share the journey. And I understand why. Content can bring users, build trust, create opportunities and help people discover what you re building. Not every founder

... days ago, I wrote about my experience as a first-time founder and a brand new member of Product Hunt. One thing that really stood out was how kind, welcoming, and supportive everyone has been. That got me thinking about something else. As a small founder

... find something harder to replicate by going deeper, perhaps rethinking the calendar altogether rather than building an agent on top of it. 2. Pay yourself properly. There is already so much going wrong every day as a founder. You re earning far less than you did before, with none of the stability. I decided to pay myself the least on the team so we could put as much money as possible into the product and the people building it. That ... ... inside a large company, it s easy to abstract the truth. A campaign report lands and you find the best angle for your boss. Your boss finds the best angle for theirs. By the time it reaches the founder

... really like seeing how many enthusiastic male founders are here, but sometimes I find myself looking for more female founders

... everyone, I m Conor, a UK-based SaaS solopreneur and the founder of UploadPack . My background is in YouTube strategy, SEO, content planning, analytics and helping creators make better publishing decisions. I built UploadPack after seeing the same problem repeatedly: creators have access to more data, dashboards and idea generators than ever, but many are still unsure what they should publish next. UploadPack is designed to help solve that gap. It reviews a creator s channel, previous uploads, selected competitors

... 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

... currently based in Germany. My background is mainly in frontend development and e-commerce, but over the past year I ve been expanding into backend engineering, infrastructure, security, and product development while building my first startup as a solo founder. I m currently working on VAT Engine, an EU VAT calculation and compliance platform for developers and e-commerce teams. I started it after seeing how quickly VAT becomes fragmented across countries, product categories, transaction dates, thresholds, integrations, and reporting ... ... workflows. Building it has pushed me far beyond writing interface code. I now work across Go, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, APIs, commerce integrations, testing, security, documentation, and the less comfortable founder

... Equity. Roles. Vision. Exit goals. Most founder pairs avoid these conversations until something forces them into it. By then, the goodwill is already gone and the company is paying for it. I've been thinking a lot about what actually separates founder

... Product Hunt community! I ve been quietly following this incredible community of makers for a while, and today I finally decided to step in, say hello, and share what I ve been working on. I m a startup founder, and like many of you, I ve faced the brutal reality of building alone. Finding a co-founder

... best investors identify exceptional founders before there's a company, product, or traction? Tomorrow, we're sitting down with Alice Bentinck , co-founder

... asking whether founder-led marketing works everyone seems to agree it does (in most cases). I'm asking about the resourcing side: how do you physically find the hours for it. We're currently working on a project where the brand positioning is built entirely around the founder

... founders to sign up for Causo after launch. Nice number. Felt good for about 12 seconds. Then we looked at the funnel properly and got humbled pretty fast. 253 created a company profile. 92 completed onboarding. 90 got matched with investors. 38 actually launched outreach. 18 became paying customers. So yeah, top of funnel looked pretty decent. But the real lesson was not how do we get people to sign up? It was: how do we get founders

... investors ourselves, we found fatal contradictions in pitches that we couldn't inform the founders, as being heavily critical to an unknown hard working founder

... asked a great question here: has there been a launch that inspired you to take your own launch to the next level? It got me thinking about something slightly different. Not just specific launches on Product Hunt, but the founders themselves. Is there a specific entrepreneur, indie hacker, or startup founder

... Them (this one I like as a separate list for my self-care/to-dos and everyone else s) Comment from Jordan Baivier(@jordan_baivier): Great question! Here are mine as a solo B2B founder: Claude my co-founder

... guys, I m Alfredo, a solo founder from Spain. After years in marketing, sales, and entrepreneurship, I m reinventing myself around AI not as a guru, not as a casual observer, but as someone trying to turn experience into useful products. Right now I m building two things: AllAi1 because the problem is no longer finding AI tools. The problem is knowing which ones are actually worth your time, money, and trust. sologang.io a pocket C-suite for solo founders

... There are founders you d love to NOT work for. And then there are founders

... Last summer, the idea for my SaaS, Xolora, started to take shape. Around the same time, the concept of vibe coding was blowing up. As a non-technical founder, it sounded like a dream come true. No coding experience? No problem, just let AI handle it. The beginning was incredibly promising. Using Emergent made me feel unstoppable. I was seeing my idea come to life. But then, reality hit. The moment the architecture required deeper complexity the magic completely faded ... ... pivot my approach. I teamed up with a professional developer. Now, we are rebuilding Xolora properly to actually deliver the value that solopreneurs and small business owners need, without the fragile vibe-code foundation. For the other non-technical founders

... Being a founder requires a completely different skillset than being an employee. And most people underestimate just how different it is until they're already in it. For me, the biggest mistake I see founders

... honest I've never liked the feeling that someone "owns" me. So being employed was very distant to me. [As if I had no power over my income.] And being a founder gave me a greater sense of "ownership", but also responsibility. And, when things are not going well, and business is going poorly, you don't really want to be a founder

... dramatically reduced the cost and speed of building products. Because of this, the signals investors optimize for have changed as well. In the article, I openly talk about what we see inside Unicorns Club after watching hundreds of founders try to raise funding. I even share some of the traction thresholds and benchmarks investors inside our community increasingly expect to see. You can read the article here: https://medium.com/@producthunt/... But I think many founders

... wondering the same thing lately. I've also been hearing from investors about how important it is to demonstrate the founder story and get investors to believe in the founder

... founder of Fundolink and I built this because I was tired of watching founders

... vibes = your personal brand matters more than your product. Imagine this: 2 founders build the same product, with the same features and same pricing. Founder