Hey Makers! I've been running my Telegram channel about products and startups for over a year now. It already has 1,100+ subscribers. It's in my native language. I recently started the same channel but in English. I find answers to questions about startups and products from people with a lot of experience in that field and write summaries. Join the Startup Summary on Telegram if you're interested: https://t.me/startupsum
Hi all, there's a distinction I keep thinking about: apps built with AI (Cursor, Claude, Copilot writing the code) vs apps that depend on AI APIs at runtime to function.
I'm in the first camp. I used AI-assisted coding heavily to build Briskly (a cleaning app that scans your room and generates a timed task list), but the app itself makes zero LLM API calls. The scanning runs on Apple's Vision framework, entirely on-device. No tokens, no per-user inference costs, no latency, works offline, and my privacy label is basically empty.
Everyone here has a primary skill or a field of knowledge they're versed in. What I'm interested in is are you working on sharpening any additional skills or are you committed to working on what you're confident with. In my case, development was where I started many years ago, but currently, I'm trying to improve my writing skills!
Hey makers, Marketing manager forcing me to implement KPIs, but I don't get along with metrics and staff. At this stage we can't even have this metrics. Are there any hacks we can set up for setting and tracking KPIs for early stage startup?
Whether you're a solo builder or part of a fast-moving product team, documentation always seems to lag just behind reality. Is it the speed of product changes?
Getting engineers or PMs to consistently update docs?
When I started I had a pretty clear idea of what the product should be and what I definitely didn t want to build.
Then customers started asking for things I never planned to add and some of those requests actually made sense. Slowly the original idea started changing. How do you know when you re adapting to real feedback versus slowly turning the product into something you never wanted to build?
Hard decisions at the start of the week. A few years ago, the hard thing for me was "to start". Today, it is "to stop". What makes you stop? (besides bankruptcy and running your funds... hh)
What amount of time is needed to know if it makes sense to try to run that business? *God, give me a sign.
