... service. It's Q4 planning season, which means a lot of small teams are about to write GEO on a budget line. Before you do, I'd spend twenty minutes on two documents, because they disagree with the pitch in a specific way. The first is Google's own page on AI features and your website, in Search Central. It says there are no additional requirements to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, and no special optimisations necessary. Further ... ... Three numbers from it get quoted. Users who saw an AI summary clicked a traditional result in 8% of visits; users who didn't, 15%. Users ended their browsing session 26% of the time with an AI summary present versus

... send a one-pager, it's faster." A dense page of text and I read none of it. A deck gives an investor a clean, focused way to follow your story, one idea at a time. "Don't mention competitors, it makes you look weak." A blank competition slide reads as naive, not dominant. Showing you understand the landscape is what makes the "here's our edge" line land. I've watched each of these cost founders real momentum ... ... working top down. A bottom up number is far more convincing. Comment from Lucas Pols(@lucasjpols): @mshen316  Agreed, and the follow up matters as much as the slide itself. Being able to say why the obvious alternative

... thread no amount of softening fixes it, because you've made your goal their interruption. If the ask lives on a surface you own bio, profile, pinned post then every comment you leave can be pure generosity with no pitch in it at all, and the profile does the selling. You stop sounding salesy because you've actually stopped selling in public. The ask still exists; it just waits to be walked toward instead of chasing. Two of your tactics ... ... navigated promoting something that touches on a problem people feel but don't say out loud. Comment from Burak Emre Ta er(@burak_emre_taser): @suzychase   @gfazioli  I really like this. The product became the answer, not the pitch

... thinking deeply enough about the Moat and GTM. A great product does not automatically equal a great business. If you haven't thoroughly thought through your Go-To-Market strategy and why your business is defensible against competitors, the pitch

... lens I can't turn off.) The products where the problem is obvious are the ones people actually buy - you see it, you go "oh, that's exactly my issue," and you're sold on it. It also makes pitching easier. If you're clear on the problem, explaining your product to anyone - buyers, other makers, whoever - gets a lot simpler. And it's a small tweak with a big payoff - naming the problem clearly in your launch messaging ... ... more than any UI polish did. So yeah, I d say naming the problem is the actual unlock. The demo just has to not get in the way of it. Comment from Viraj Parab(@viraj_parab): StartupHQ to organize competitor

... case) I'll reply with 1-2 reframings, focused on whether your language matches the buyer's vocabulary and whether the urgency is clear. Honest feedback only. No softening. Open for the next 48 hours. The messier the pitch, the more useful the conversation. Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): Let me do it for example: - AI Hive lets you build and deploy AI agents that actually run in production, without writing code or hiring an AI team. - We sell ...

... Last call: The Pitch by Deel New York Makers today is your last chance to apply for The Pitch

... most important and challenging experiences you ll have as a founder is fundraising. I pitched VCs across London and San Francisco. Some spent 15 seconds on my deck. Some took the call just to diligence a competitor

... made it to the Pitch by Deel Paris finals, you ve got a special Product Hunt launch day waiting for you. We ve partnered with Deel to give finalists a dedicated chance to launch, get discovered, and show the community what they ve built. If that s you, submit your launch by Sunday at midnight PST and make sure to add the tag pitch

... Update: The Deel Leaderboard will no longer be going ahead today for the Paris event. We re teaming up with The Pitch by @Deel , a global startup competition where up to 100 winners will receive $50k in funding and up to 10 winners will receive $1M+. If you make the cut, you ll also show up on special Product Hunt leaderboards, starting with the first event on April 13. So this is not just another application form floating around ... ... founder92(@founder92): This is a really great idea. I'm wondering what stage the product development has to be in for someone to stand a real chance. For example, showcasing a prototype and having a really compelling and strong pitch

... extremely hard to get your script in front of real decision makers. At the same time, producers are constantly looking for new material, but the pipeline for discovering scripts is fragmented and inefficient. So I built Pitcheroo a pitching marketplace where screenwriters can pitch

... startup according to LvlUp Ventures Didn t expect this at all. Votap Ltd. was selected as a Top 5 finalist in the LVLUP Ventures Operations Master pitch competition, sponsored by Notion . The challenge was simple: submit a sub-5-minute pitch

... Hello Product Hunt!   We have built an AI tool, which helps founder teams prepare for investor pitches by analyzing photos of the founder teams.    It provides specific feedback on what to improve in the pitch

... 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 emphasized, how the reporter framed it, and the pitch

... decks at all. Comment from Aziz Hakim(@az1zhakim): Hi Mike, That s a great initiative! Do you have a public email? Thank you Comment from Greg Uspensky(@greguspensky25): Hey @mike_stachowiak Thanks for this opportunity. Shot you our pitch deck for Hokku Comment from Jamie Daniel(@jamie_daniel1): Interested in the pitch

... Forget the pitch deck for a second. This is about grabbing attention fast. Share your startup in five words or less. The goal is to be clear, clever, or just bold enough to make people stop scrolling. Who knows, it could be a good marketing exercise Comment from Roye Segal(@royesegal): AI-powered documents for team collaboration: https://www.tryartefact.com/ Comment from fmerian(@fmerian): feature flags crafted for speed Comment from Valentin Kirilov(@valkirilov): Say "thanks" with a pizza ... ... Nice! Comment from Aaron O'Leary(@aaronoleary): @rohanrecommends  Aha yes! I love this! Comment from Aaron O'Leary(@aaronoleary): @ehsan_javanbakht  this is a super cool app, I'm gonna give it a download. Although the elevator pitch

... start to formulate things and gather information. I was curious if anyone had any suggestions or help in the pitch deck prepping area. Would love any insights. PS do you know of any resources that I can reach out to with help and guidance. Thanks Michael ...