Someone bought my product a year and a half ago. Paid once. Never upgraded. Never asked for anything.
Then they emailed me out of nowhere with a detailed explanation of a problem they'd solved with it. Something I'd never thought it could do. They'd built a whole process around it and wanted to tell me.
I am curious to learn about this community. If you learnt that the founders of the product you use or the company is involved in activities that you don't personally (morally or value systems wise) align with, are you less likely to go back to the product? On the other hand, if you do find founder aligning with your vision of the world, are you more likely to use their products? For example: will you stop going to a bar if the owner misbehaved with people or it's own staff? Will you buy into a brand because it does good for the world(save up for a more expensive jacket instead of buying a cheap fast-fashion brand)? Will you stop using a giant company because it is driving local businesses to bankruptcy?
I added logging. The log line didn't appear. I assumed the code wasn't executing. I restructured the function, added more logs, restructured again.
Four hours later I found it. The log line was there. It was being written to a file I wasn't tailing because the path had changed two deploys ago and I was looking at the old one.
I used to give the headline over to the person who was good with words. But now I am starting to realize that this approach was wrong.
A few weeks ago, I was helping my friend create a landing page for a meal planner called PantryPal. The original headline said "Eat smarter, live better". This phrase sounded great but said absolutely nothing. Asking what the product actually did, we found out that the answer is rather simple: it creates three dinner options based on the food you already have in your kitchen. And when we came up with this description, we got the headline in no time and realized that the product cannot handle leftovers at all. One sentence on one page pointed out the gap in our product roadmap.
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An automatic video recap can start with a game, interview, documentary, vlog, or film. The detail that carries the story changes with the source. In a sports recap it might be a defensive move that opens a pass; in an interview it might be the qualification that makes a quote accurate.
Take an hour of footage and a three-minute target for a first-time viewer. My first requirement would be to list the moments that change what happens next, then point the editor to the visual or spoken evidence for each. In the fictional film example in the diagram, a shot of the mark on a key explains why the detective chooses that door.
I would ask the automatic editor for a first version with editable shots, narration and captions. Then I d ask a reviewer why the next action happened. If their answer depends on seeing the original, restore the missing evidence or adjust its timing.
For makers who ship video tools, which input would you ask editors to supply first: must-keep story beats, source timestamps, or a short note explaining the audience? What would you leave for review after the first edit?
Hello, Product Hunt! I vote for "marketing is more important!" Recently, building has become really easy with the help of AI agents and tools like Cursor(thx Ai). I think the time and money needed to create a good product have significantly decreased thanks to various SaaS programs. However, I still don t have any references to introduce to you ( ). I feel like I ve neglected marketing, which is more important than making the product. (Please tell me this is the real reason...) Especially for indie makers like me, marketing is the hardest part (I wish someone could do it for me! ). Making a good product and promoting it are both important, and it s a pointless debate. Still, making vs. marketing? What do you all think? And if there are any cost-free ways for indie marketers or beginner marketers to try out, could you let me know?
