... year now, previously in other business models online, and over this past year I've dabbled into so much: + 50 articles about app growth, ideas, content saved on my X account + countless YouTube videos watched on the same topics I never ended up pushing anything until recently, which is https://www.getliso.app/ And what I realized is there is no minimum or a "readiness" score EVER with anything I launched on Product Hunt out of spite, with no plan; this should ... ... lushaku1): The right time is just now , allways. i have lunched today mine. thanks. Comment from Harsh Pathak(@harsh_pathak27): When you have a Good loyal community who can support your Product. and obviously little bit of money to advertise

... that is now where the whole game is. My advice for 2026 and 2027: pick the channel where AI removes your bottleneck rather than the one that is fashionable, then spend the time you saved on choosing the topics, not on producing more. Comment from Hisashi Space(@hisashispace): @adana  Yes, at some point I'd like to show what I've built. But plenty of people here already have a product and are thinking exactly the same thing ... ... Saman Bahmani(@saman_bahmani1): The ideology is that you need to first find customers, that are interested 100% to solve their problems with your Application then build the product. If you build first then you have difficulty to sell, advertise

... like an advertisement. If one of your discussions starts gaining traction, focus your attention there. Reply to new comments and keep the conversation going active discussions are more likely to go to the top and stay visible. A good example is this one I posted 3 days ago about my launched Chrome extension for LinkedIn . If you run out of ideas, get inspired by highly rated discussions from the past. You can filter and analyse what topics

... right rooms that the buried admissions find you instead of the other way around. makes sense why the LinkedIn-connections point mattered more to you than the launch badge - you can't shortcut "already following the right topics" with a smarter search query. Comment from Rabnoor Singh(@rabnoor_s): The one on your list that compounds is 5. The rest are broadcasts. Useful, but they reset every time. What almost nobody does with 5 is go back. Answering someone ... ... every visitor had to go hunting for the thing they clicked for. 2. The hero said one price. The buy button 400px below it said a different one. Both had been live for weeks. 3. My structured data still advertised

... real offer to exactly one kind of buyer and a waste of everyone else's time. Finding that buyer faster is the entire problem I'm working on. Launch is planned for next month and I have zero advertisers. Users with no ads to show is a dead product, so the demand side is the entire game for me right now, and it's the part I'm worst at. https://www.producthunt.com/prod... If you sell to developers, my inventory ... ... them? The trial includes 60 hosted minutes: https://app.meetingclarity.app Comment from Sajid Javid(@sajid_javid): Love this format, Nolan, thanks for kicking it off. What I'm building: IntelliResearch, an all in one AI research assistant. You type a topic

... screenshots of my tool on social media , sent me DMs saying they like it, or left reviews on the Chrome Web Store. I plan to use them in: the landing page  marketing materials (Chrome Web Store)  possibly advertisement and "show off on socials" Which could attract more users. When the product has a positive sentiment, I would consider creating profiles on Trustpilot, AppSumo, or G2 , where I have less control over the reviews, but they may be perceived ... ... performed best for you. Comment from Austin Buhl(@austinbuhl): @busmark_w_nika Thank you, Nika. Google's a bit iffy rn as we are still a remote-first company. Comment from Abusaid islam said(@abusaid_islam_said): Great topic

... sales. Need more people like that. USA : Need a super simple AI agent that learns by watching your screen and automates routine tasks. Existing solutions are complex or expensive. Willing to pay $10 30/month. Russia : A psychologist needs an advertising bot that analyzes her workload and automatically adjusts her ads. She is willing to pay for a solution and is open to discussing the details. Serbia : A photographer moving to the US needs clients. Platforms require reviews, agencies are expensive ... ... series again! :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): By the way, I went to ProblemHunt and realised that I am missing a search bar there where I would start typing the keyword and it would filter to me the topics/problems

... before you post? Comment from Piero De Tomi(@pierodetomi): I feel this personally, it s the problem I m constantly facing. Being a software engineer and not exactly a marketing person , I m still trying to gain confidence in advertising the products I m building. Good advice in your post.. and no: I did t have (yet) that aha! moment you re mentioning Comment from Piero De Tomi(@pierodetomi): @busmark_w_nika totally agree! Working on it right ... ... product everywhere I could . I d join relevant X Spaces, post consistently, share what I m building, and find communities where my target users already spend time. I will add value there. Will connect with key figures around my topic

... actually compounds isn't showing your product being built. It's being visibly useful about the problem your product solves, in the places where people who have that problem are already talking. Competence in public is the least salesy advertisement there is, and it's the only one that survives being read by someone who doesn't know you yet. Comment from Arnold Oshenye(@oshylabs): The thing that changed it for me was dropping every number from my own copy ... ... trying to use a social media strategy that essentially identifies specific personas that my app solves problems for, then ive ask it help me come up with interesting slideshows that directly empathise or inspire that specific audience (about a topic

... nika): @mustafa_najoom  Which is your LinkedIn? I would like to connect with you :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @marie_saxon  How long have you been building MettaShift? It sounds like a very comprehensive project (the topic is very huge). I am a fan of your sports effort :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @prashant_patil14  valid point, when you will be doing everything in bursts, you can run out of energy very soon. Wishing ... ... Implement new design concepts for Vassant's brand-new marketing site - Connect and resonate with more investors looking to manage their capital more efficiently - Drive our referral program and receive feedback on more attractive referral rewards - Publish our spotlight advertisement

... anything from the ground up, I would just follow tutorial after tutorial, and it felt like I wasn't really getting anywhere. After watching quite a few, I started building from scratch and doing my own research on various topics or issues I came across. Throughout the process, file organization became easier and less daunting. When following tutorials, they manage the files for you, making it harder to organize your own project when the time comes ... ... easy part. Saying it clearly has been the hard one. Comment from Aggie Ho(@aggie_ho): @busmark_w_nika  I am still trying to figure that it out actually. I've been trying different methods of advertisements

... that feel more like monopolies for collecting user data. How do you personally view these kinds of services and the way they massively collect and use information about users? In the EU, especially, this has become quite a big topic. Which services have you decided to stop using, or replace with more privacy-friendly alternatives? Comment from Zakaria empire(@zakaria_empire): We switched from three SaaS providers last year because of hidden tracking and data reselling. So we built Supaboard ... ... DPDP Act is starting to do the same. Curious if anyone else has thought about the ethics of B2B enrichment tools specifically. Comment from Thomas G(@thomas_gdpt): User data is worth a lot of money especially for advertising

... more memorable Generating word-of-mouth and referrals Giving small businesses an affordable alternative to constantly buying ads The simplest way I'd describe it: Playistry helps small businesses turn ordinary promotions into interactive customer experiences without adding another advertising expense. https://Playistry.com Comment from Austin Buhl(@austinbuhl): Fragmented software and per-seat pricing. Comment from Austin Buhl(@austinbuhl): I think they're connected. A demo gets me to stop scrolling, but the problem is what makes me remember ... ... visible to AI," it's "I have no idea, and neither does anyone else, until they run this." Comment from Kevin Short(@kevin_short3): Eliminating an unlimited feed on a social media, and focusing social media around the topics

... Slack or Discord. Companies need to differentiate themselves , gain a competitive advantage, and build relationships with clients/users on a more personal level. Here are a few examples: A local advertising agency, Visbility, holds Friday Beer at 5 PM meetups where they educate the general public about content marketing and other topics

... people how excited you are about launching your product. Every place online regarding promoting your company is dominated by an industry of money grabbers. And what's more important, pouring your money into these companies for their service and advertising simply doesn't work. These companies have convinced us that's it's normal for us to pay $1 $6 a click and it's madness. This is my story. I recently got let go from a company I worked ... ... with our children. We have courses to prepare young adults for leaving home, for going to university or how to be safe on nights out. We teach parents how to spot signs of abuse or how to approach difficult topics

... give users control over whether apps can track them across other apps and websites. If you tap Ask App Not to Track we don t get a personal advertising ID ads are less accurate installs are still counted, just more anonymously If you tap Allow we can understand which topics

... agencies, but freelancers who are also short of time and busy by doing real creative work they do not want to be halted by administrative tasks. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @nikhilshahane  Just out of curiosity, which topics related to AI and digital agencies are interesting to you? :) I would like to contribute more in these terms. Comment from gregb(@gregbtb): @busmark_w_nika  the platform handles matching, warm intros, outreach, tracking. Only a small, curated subset ... ... that agencies have 1 job - to add value to their clients in the field that they are operating in. Eg: For brands & businesses, it's creative value in the form of advertising

... messages, asking people to check your launch and what your product is about. People whose upvote value is 5 are usually very active, maintain streaks, and they have gold kitten status, I guess. Comment from Aleksandar Blazhev(@byalexai): Great topic as always, Nika! I would point out that on Product Hunt one of the most important things is connecting with the right people . For example, there are people on the platform whose vote carries five points/upvotes. It makes far more ... ... Twitter or LinkedIn. Comment from Igor Lysenko(@ixord): The ProductHunt community can absolutely help with a launch. I remember that the first time I launched a product, not knowing the full logic, I got many votes without any advertising

... which ones have real domain traffic and are legit blogs, and then when you visit them, if you see an advert popup, you realise they are a pay to play website. Scoll to the bottom, look for an advertising page link or a contact. And just ask them if they do any marketing work or have any marketing opportunities for someone in your space given the correlation of what they do and you do. Focus on the sites being related ... ... weeks for the full lot, give or take a percentage. I think it comes down to whether the space is empty, or you're a trusted name for that particular grouping of entities/n-grams/queries etc. If they are organised into topically

... have been using it for free, like for 3 or 4 years or so :D Comment from Tetiana(@tetianai): @byalexai  Now I m curious to see their ads. Either I don t notice them, or they don t advertise to me, most likely the second. :) Comment from Aleksandar Blazhev(@byalexai): For me, the top 2 this year were definitely @bolt.new and @n8n . Bolt literally took over our feeds back in the spring because of that massive hackathon they hosted ... ... relevance click, you remember the brand without feeling marketed to. Comment from Aleksandar Blazhev(@byalexai): @tetianai  we re not talking about ads in the traditional sense here. This is about hundreds, sometimes dozens, of posts and videos around topics

... things that need to be taken into account. Are you sure the person (the seller) behind that online store is a real person? Will they actually send you the product? Will it be of the same quality as advertised? When will arrive? And if you order goods worth a million and they never deliver : what can you do? You re in the U.S. or Europe, and they re in China, Bangladesh, or Vietnam. Are you really going to sue them ... ... your own country. But if the seller is in China, I doubt you d hire a lawyer from the other side of the world. Comment from Pamela Arienti(@pamela_arienti): @busmark_w_nika That's a very interesting topic

... querri): There is always going to be the tussle between building your product and building your brand. But when you start, in the very early days, it's the personal brand that will carry you farther, more than any advertising or fancy PR. You can build a successful company just with your personal brand because humans still are emotional beings who would rather follow, listen, talk and interact with another human being than with a product. Having said that, which ... ... find a blocker that let me stay intentional without nuking the whole internet. Comment from Daniel Hernandez(@danielhrdez): 0 right now. What do you recommend to start building personal brand? Comment from Benjamin Bekken(@benjaminbekken): I love this topic

... attract more traffic than the original? 3. Analyzing Search Keywords to Find Unmet Needs Use tools like Google Trends, Semrush, or Similarweb to analyze search keywords and find unmet needs. In simple terms, look for high search volume topics that aren t yet well-served by existing websites. However, finding such unmet needs can be challenging since most common problems are already addressed. 4. Coming Up With Your Own Idea This approach involves creating a product based on your understanding ... ... proper introduction. People need to understand what problem your product solves, what advantages it has, and why they should use it. There are also other promotion methods, such as SEO, social media, and advertising

... from Atique Bandukwala(@atique_bandukwala1): @busmark_w_nika ...We ve trained our machine on 4.4 million videos spanning 50 geographies, 250+ languages, and more than 5,000 contextual cues, while mapping over 4 million engagement signals. From influencer content, advertisements, product explainers, brand stories, brand anthems, product feedback, interviews, focus groups and more - our system can analyze virtually any type of video content. The only exception is copyrighted long-form material (like Disney or Netflix originals), which isn t accessible ... ... sentiments and opinions expressed into consideration..by breaking down content into smaller parts to understand each minute detail Comment from Atique Bandukwala(@atique_bandukwala1): @busmark_w_nika  also to add something here while we are discussing this topic

... topics to a product, those specific sub-categories aren't there, you can still only find the broad "Artificial Intelligence" topic