I see a lot of tech products on Product Hunt that are meant to improve someone else's business situation, and as many makers as possible are ideally targeting the B2B market.
However, this past week I've also seen a lot of "fun" products that not only made it into the featured category but also earned one of the product of the day titles.
Whether it s praise or constructive feedback, all reviews provide helpful insight into how your customers are experiencing your product. For convenience, we ve created a Slack integration so each new review sends you a message that you can keep track of in your dedicated workspace channel.
Understandably, when you team up with someone who is more popular than you are, it can help you grow your audience, create awareness about your presence and possibly increase purchases.
Most of the time, we research our competition and benchmarks.
I bought a pair of wireless earbuds a while back with 4.5 stars and thousands of reviews. Sound was great, battery was great, everyone loved them. Around month 8 the left bud started cutting out, and by month 10 it was dead. Warranty had ended two months earlier, of course...
When I went back to the reviews, I realized almost all of them were written within the first few days. Amazing sound! Love the case! Nobody comes back after 10 months to update their review, so the rating mostly tells you how the product feels out of the box, not whether it survives...
Now I scroll straight to the 1-star and 2-star reviews and sort by oldest or search for words like months later, stopped working, and after a year. That helps a bit, but it s a lot of effort for something I m just trying to buy.
It also feels like this applies to everything: backpacks where the zipper gives up, water bottles that start smelling weird, standing desks that begin wobbling. The stuff that matters most is exactly what a launch-week review can t tell you...
Everyone is talking about Privacy these days. For some, this is just to be left alone; for others is to have some rules for how the data are managed; for a specific group of people, it could be something else. So what's your definition of Privacy?
When we landed our first big client paying $2,000/month, we were ecstatic. They were a massive logistics company, and they had one specific requirement: they needed a completely custom reporting dashboard that synced with their proprietary internal software.
We didn't want to lose the deal. So, my co-founder and I spent six weeks building this custom integration. It was a massive hack duct-taped together with webhooks and custom database queries. But it worked. The client was happy, and we had our first real revenue coming in.
Then the nightmare started.
Because we hardcoded this custom feature into our core app, every time we tried to push a new update, the custom dashboard broke. We spent the next three months firefighting bugs for this one client instead of improving the product for our other 150 users. Our overall churn rate ticked up by 5% because our standard features were falling behind, and the codebase became a mess to maintain.
