Yes, I'm kind of referring to the Soham Parekh story that's now taking the internet by storm.
TL;DR: He worked on several startups at the same time, had the best interview results, but according to his employers, he never delivered results. (You can comprehend it from these tweets, e.g. 1, 2)
It took a weekend of direct messages to get ten people on board. Four months in, and I'm still at only six.
One thing that has been surprising is the level of personal loss when it comes to churn. Every churn is a 10% loss, but more importantly, a specific person who no longer replies to your emails. I spent an entire Tuesday crafting an email to a single user, then never hit send.
Solo dev here. We hand-made 137 animation groups per species, six species, 5,242 frames, for a habit app where the progress bar is a pixel pet.
Then our founder said: we made all those special animations and I never see a single one.
I assumed he was wrong. He wasn't. signature_move_played had fired once in the app's entire history. The cause was arithmetic, not art: a pool weight of 8 out of 108 with a selector ticking every 7 seconds meant a ~90 second expected wait. Our median session is 59.5 seconds. We had built twelve animations that a typical session could not reach.
Fixing it surfaced four more defects. But the one that still bothers me is meta: our own detectors produced ten false alarms during the work.
Hi Makers! Quarantine has been tough here in London, with limited open spaces and a general feel of zombie apocalypse in the streets. Fortunately I have found comfort in working on my passion project which I am planning to beta launch in Q4 2020. I wanted to reach out to my fellow makers and start a discussion on how and when is the best time to launch on PH? The opinions and feedback from experienced founders would be invaluable through beta testing, however with the project being a travel app there are certain, umm, limitations in the current environment and users wont be able to experience the end to end experience. Should we launch on PH without users being able to make the final purchase or wait?
Six weeks in, and I still haven't touched a desktop. Everything architecture decisions, debugging, database migrations, the whole thing happens through a phone screen and an AI agent doing the actual typing.
What's strange is how different the failure modes are from what I expected. I thought the hard part would be not knowing how to code. It wasn't. The hard part was learning to think in prompts instead of logic how to describe a bug precisely enough that the agent fixes the real problem instead of patching the symptom, three times, in three different wrong places.
I keep wondering if this is a preview of something bigger, or just a novelty that works because I happen to have a lot of patience and a phone that doesn't die. Curious what others here think: for the people who've built with AI agents has it changed how you think about programming as a skill, or does it just feel like outsourcing typing?
And for anyone who hasn't tried building this way yet what's stopped you? Time, trust, or just never having a reason to?
Creating content in 2025 is super typical. Being a content creator as a founder isn t optional anymore, it s almost a requirement if you want to grow your business and brand. But you have to be consistent. And some people prepare content in advance or post in the moment.
Personalization is becoming more and more of a norm and expectation on the internet and IRL experiences. IMO, if I am an active user somewhere, I will happily provide signals (within reason) to personalize my experience. We re working on some ways to improve recommendations on Product Hunt, and I'm curious to get your input on the topic.
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