... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

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

... built first? Probably. But I think "build the brand" advice sometimes becomes an excuse to not build the hard thing. Comment from Piyush Gajrani(@piyush_teq): @busmark_w_nika Most founders don t fail at brand 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

... community As someone building in the Indian startup ecosystem (Hyderabad), I kept missing key founder signals. One founder

... founder coach who surveyed hundreds of builders said something that stuck with me: every single person she interviewed used the word "lonely." That really stopped me. Because it's not just one type of founder

... product owner, founder, or builder reading this, I want to talk about something that's costing you money right now. You probably don't know it's happening. Here's what I've learned after analyzing 500+ SaaS products, tools, and digital products at Rankfender. The Mistake Most product owners treat AI visibility like a 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 ... ... When potential users ask: "What's the best tool for [your category]?" "Alternatives

... have had kids for at least 4  5 years. But none of them started a business. They got jobs, their shift ends at 5 on Friday, and then they go enjoy their free time. And then there are founders trying to build a business. About 70% of the people I know from this environment don t have a family, even though at their age, someone might normally already have a teenager at home. Which kind of makes sense ... ... founder

... upvotes, features in newsletters, the whole thing. and then 6 months later? dead or making $300/month so i went full detective mode. pulled 34 products that hit #1 between 2022-2024, tracked them down, interviewed 19 of the founders, and dug into what actually happened the pattern is actually disturbing: launch day: 2,500 signups, 847 upvotes, #1 product of the day, founders

... Lessons from Athena s surprising coverage and what founders can learn about finding the right reporter, framing stories, and pitching press The Wall Street Journal rarely covers seed-stage startups let alone one raising just $2.2M. That s why I was surprised to see Athena , an early-stage company working on how large language models surface brand-related content, featured in Katherine Blunt s article about the demise of traditional Google search. Instead of dismissing it as a blip ... ... because I m a nerd), I dissected the bigger-picture story: what the founders

... spent last month testing some assumptions like: founders want to meet others in-person. These assumptions failed as it's not as simple as that. There are some intricacies. Well, I think will come back to the original asusmption that sort of worked. People liked being on the map, sharing their profile, and getting discovered. But growth has slowed, as I was expectingl. I m now asking myself: Should I double down on self-promotion as the core use case ... ... Should I add companies to the map (e.g., Vercel in SF, Deliveroo in London) to make the map more of a startup ecosystem view ? How could I reach more founders

... Product Hunt! I'm Waseem Daher, co-founder of Pilot, the largest startup-focused accounting company in the US. I'm a 3x founder