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5yr ago

Suggest tools to manage multiple email addresses & social DMs 📨📧📩

I have 5-6 personal email addresses and want to streamline the whole process by collecting and responding from one place. Please suggest tools/ways/methods to simplify the whole process and increase productivity :) It would be great if social DMs (Facebook, Twitter, IG) etc could also be handled from the same place. In short, Intercom/Front/Drift like tool but for personal use

1yr ago

How do you reduce churn rate? (Your best practices)

I assume I'm not the only one dealing with this problem, so I'll seek advice from those more experienced and perhaps those who have a proven track record.

Whenever a user reaches the payment gateway, they often suddenly leave, either by uninstalling the app or closing the page.

1mo ago

How to get a great launch on Product hunt?

I've been lurking on Product Hunt for a while before launching my own app today.

One pattern I keep noticing: products with bigger teams or at least teams that look bigger tend to dominate the leaderboard.

More makers = more built-in upvoters on day one.
EDIT: THIS IS FROM A SOLO DEV :(

1yr ago

Should our product launch video feature a real person or just a voiceover with product footage?

Hey PH community!

We re preparing for our upcoming launch on Product Hunt and planning to include a short video introducing our product. We re debating between two approaches and would love your input:

Unpopular opinion: Leetcode interviews are filtering out the best startup engineers

The engineers who built the most impressive things I've seen never practiced Leetcode.

They learned by shipping.

They debugged at midnight. They read someone else's broken code and fixed it. They reverse-engineered systems nobody documented. They optimized something 40% faster because it was slow and that bothered them.

None of that shows up in a binary search question.

4yr ago

It’s #StarWarsDay! Let’s celebrate with your must-read resources on dark mode

Happy #StarWarsDay!
Below are my must-read resources on dark mode. What are yours?

  • A Complete Guide to Dark Mode on the Web

  • How to design delightful dark themes

  • The Ultimate Guide on Designing a Dark Theme for your Android app

  • Design for the Dark Theme

  • 8 Tips for Dark Theme Design

  • How we created a dark UI for GitLab's Web IDE

  • The Complete Guide to the Dark Mode Toggle

  • Material dark theme, to design a dark theme version of your Material UI

  • Themer, a Figma plugin that helps you quickly swap themes from your styles

  • Manage Light and Dark themes from design to code

Over to you!
What are the best resources you've read on dark mode?
And if you enjoy this list, make sure to star this repo full of hand-picked resources, tools, and examples to build awesome products in dark mode.
#MayThe4thBeWithYou

1yr ago

Is it morally right to cheat with AI? Contradictory products deal with this idea in different ways.

I saw an article on TechCrunch discussing Cluely (created by Chungin Roy Lee and Neel Shanmugam).

TL;DR: The AI tool, originally developed to cheat on software engineering interviews, now helps users cheat on exams, sales calls, and job interviews through a hidden in-browser window. And now has raised $5+ million.

2mo ago

Before giving an AI agent autonomy, define these 3 boundaries

A lot of teams are giving AI agents access to emails, databases, customer accounts, and production tools.

But the agent can do it is not the same as the agent should do it without asking.

I ve found it useful to separate actions into three levels:

1. Observe freely

New to Marketing: Looking for Tips on How to Increase Organic Traffic?

Hi everyone,

I m fairly new to marketing, and I'm currently having a hard time figuring out how to increase organic traffic.

There s so much content being posted on social media, and I feel like most of my content is getting buried on Facebook, LinkedIn, X, and Blogger.

I ve also tried posting on free listing sites, but it s been difficult to get noticed and more importantly, to turn that traffic into signups.

5mo ago

Why did you lose your Product Hunt streak and what was your record?

@charlie_hb started quite an interesting thread where he outlined on which days people lose their streaks the most often.

He showed some stats regarding days in a week, but I am still lacking the reasons.

The most common ones I have heard were:

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