When you re trying to cover multiple platforms with your brand and also cover other platforms for your business account, things can get a little out of hand.
How do you manage your communities and everything that comes with it?
How do you split time between building and growth when you're solo?
I've been building NAAD (an Indian classical wellness app ragas, pranayama, mantra meditation) mostly alone, and I've noticed something: the skills that make you good at shipping product are almost the opposite of the skills that make you good at growth/distribution. One is heads-down and technical, the other is outward-facing and relational.
For those of you who've been solo makers did you force yourself to learn marketing, or did you eventually bring someone in to own that side? And if you brought someone in, how did you structure that (equity, profit-share, contract) in a way that felt fair to both sides?
Genuinely curious how others have navigated this, especially early on when there's no revenue yet to pay someone a normal salary.
I'm researching a topic of benefits for freelancers and self-employed, like the ones that people usually have in big companies (sick pay, family leave, insurance, etc). Would love your opinion on how fellow makers are dealing with this and whether there're any solutions that you use. Thank you!
One lesson that changed my perspective was realizing that building more features doesn't automatically create a better product.
Early on, I believed that if we kept adding functionality, users would naturally see more value. We spent a lot of time improving the product, but adoption barely changed. The problem wasn't the number of features it was that we hadn't spent enough time understanding what users actually needed.
I have seen people advicing each other to build a saas around your own problems. But, the question is, anyone who is starting out or hasn't got a problem yet, what are they gonna build?
Apart from this, there are many people who build passion projects and many others just build what is trending.
Our Product Hunt mobile team has been working diligently behind the scenes to build a brand new app experience from the ground up, and we re thrilled to finally debut it. For those that missed it, we launched Product Hunt mobile apps for iOS and Android earlier this week. Download the app to browse Product Hunt from anywhere.
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I ve noticed I keep switching between notes apps and task managers because I m never sure where something should go. Sometimes a quick note turns into a task and then I end up copying it somewhere else. Curious how other people handle this do you keep notes and tasks separate or use one app for both?
Honestly, looking at the current state of AI coding agents, building a simple SaaS MVP from scratch feels like reinventing the wheel. You can literally spin up a working prototype over the weekend.
But I keep thinking about the hangover part: technical debt, messy code structures, and the pain of scaling it later.
If you were starting a new project this week, would you actually trust an AI agent to ship the whole MVP just to test the market quickly? Or would you still write it manually to keep the architecture clean?
