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Sandeep Yadav

9mo ago

How do you verify if a phone number is linked to social media?

I ve noticed that verifying whether a phone number is connected to a social media account can be surprisingly tricky.

For personal use, hiring, or even security checks, people often end up searching platform-by-platform, which can take a lot of time and still miss results.

I m curious:

  • Have you ever had to verify a phone number s social media presence?

  • What s the method or tool you ve found most effective?

  • Are there privacy or ethical concerns you think should be considered when doing this?

Minesh Mistry

9mo ago

What’s working right now to drive traffic to your Shopify store?

What strategies are currently effective for driving visitors to your Shopify store?

Shopify store owners, with all the hype out there, I'd like to know what's genuinely working for you in 2025.

Do you receive results from:

  • Instagram Reels?

  • SEO or content marketing?

  • Influencers or Affiliates?

  • Paid advertisements (Meta, Google, or Pinterest)?

  • Email or SMS automation?

  • Something entirely unexpected?

Youcef El Ghoul

10mo ago

Back-end devs issues

Hey folks, quick question for all the back-end developers and solo SaaS builders out there

Do you ever get stuck or frustrated trying to build front-end UI for your projects? Like, you have a solid backend but creating a clean, usable front-end just feels like a massive time-sink or a completely different skill set?

I m curious how you currently handle it, and if you ve tried any tools to speed that up. What s your biggest pain when it comes to front-end work?

Would love to hear your experience

Sanskar Yadav

8mo ago

Is AI making us less intelligent?

Answers come instantly these days. We once prized cognitive features, but they're now quietly being outsourced.
I've noticed that this subtle convenience is becoming a gradual shift. Routine, complexity, and the slow puzzles that built sharpness are quietly fading from our daily challenges.
Each time AI fills in the blanks or suggests the next step, it chips away at the mental grit that once set people apart. It s easy to celebrate the fall of monotony, but I feel something oddly unsettling about the trade-off.
When instant assistance is always within reach, what happens to curiosity, intellectual struggle, or even real direction?
Sometimes it feels like we re gaining efficiency but losing something harder to define. Does anyone else notice a change in how we approach challenges or think for ourselves?

Is the mental trade-off worth it, or are we beginning to miss the spark we had before everything became so easy?

Adam Lababidi

10mo ago

Resend's new service is cloning our features with the mistakes

hey ph fam,

we're the two devs behind migma.ai bootstrapped ai tool for whipping up on-brand emails super fast using natural language. we launched here before and snagged #4 product of the day, which was awesome validation from y'all!

Parth Ahir

12mo ago

Should AI Always Be Polite? GPT-4o’s Bug Raises Big Questions

Last week, OpenAI had to roll back an update to GPT-4o after users reported that the chatbot was being excessively agreeable even endorsing harmful or irrational behavior. This sycophantic behavior was traced back to reinforcement learning that overemphasized positive feedback .

As a founder building AI-powered products, this incident hits close to home. It raises important questions:

What’s still broken about testing workflows in 2025?

I ve been talking to a lot of devs recently about how they approach testing in fast moving teams. The same pain points keep coming up.

Writing tests takes forever.

Maintaining them is even worse.

CI passes, but bugs still make it to production.

Tania Kodliuk

12mo ago

How do you deal with imperfections of your product and need to charge money for it?

How often do you change the cost of your product?

Do you use any frameworks to decide when to change the price as you add more big features?

Talshyn Nova

12mo ago

How can small teams get actionable feedback from potential customers? 🤔

As a small team, we need honest, targeted insights, but we haven t even set up a feedback loop yet. How can small teams get actionable feedback from potential customers without getting buried in vague comments?

I m curious:

  • Have you found short surveys more effective than quick one-on-one calls or in-app prompts?

  • What questions did you ask to cut through generic looks good replies and reveal real pain points?

  • When did you first reach out right after signup, post-demo, or on a regular schedule and how often did you check in?

  • Finally, what lightweight tools or simple templates made the process easy for your users and team?

Rahul Mishra

11mo ago

How do you find the right co-founder, especially overseas?

Hi PH Community,

I'm currently building a health-focused platform where users are rewarded for taking care of their well-being. The idea is to create a positive feedback loop help people stay healthy while contributing to a larger ecosystem of wellness.

I'm working solo right now handling everything from development to outreach. Before this, I collaborated on a few other projects, but it s tough to find people who share the same level of commitment and vision.

Since most of my target audience is in the West and I m planning to incorporate the company in the US, I m looking for a potential co-founder based there someone who deeply resonates with the mission.