In yesterday's discussion by @aaronoleary, there were a few thoughts about using robots at home.
In this context, several questions occurred to me.
For example, what will happen to the future of humans if we delegate most of the manual and mental work to machines? How will we handle our free time? How will people be rewarded?
Relying on the model itself to break out of a broken loop never works out well. Putting hard programmatic limits outside the LLM layer is the only real way to protect your cloud bill.
A 40% drop in infra costs just from stopping bad loops is a massive win.
For our customer facing apps the tricky part was deciding what to display on the user's screen when an agent gets cut off mid task.
Do you return a friendly error message immediately or tell the user a human is taking over?
Everywhere I look, people say build in public to grow your product and audience. Sounds great except when you re starting from zero and literally nobody cares yet. From what I ve figured out, it s less about getting likes right now and more about leaving a trail, progress updates, decisions you ve made, even mistakes. Most of it will get ignored in the moment, but it builds a record that people can stumble on later. Also, public doesn t have to mean blasting it to Twitter. It could be small niche communities, Reddit threads like this, or a tiny newsletter. Basically, don t measure it by immediate engagement. Think of it as planting seeds for your future self. Anyone here actually started with no audience and made build in public work? What did you do?
WhatsApp is posting numbers that no other app comes close to. It leads the world in addictiveness at 87% DAU/MAU and stickiness at 86% month-one retention, all while having 2.7B monthly users, the most of any non-preinstalled app.
A new Sensor Tower breakdown of the top 25 apps by these metrics reveals some surprising patterns. There are now 15 apps with over a billion users, and Google and Meta own 12 of them between them.
I keep digging into what actually gets a product mentioned in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers, and the data keeps pointing somewhere that makes me question the whole "GEO/AEO" hype.
Ahrefs looked at 75k brands and found branded mentions correlated with AI visibility way more than backlinks 0.664 vs 0.218. It's correlation, not causation, so take it with salt. But the gap is big enough that I can't ignore it.
Which makes me wonder if we're overcomplicating this. Maybe AI visibility isn't a new discipline at all. Maybe it's just the old thing: be genuinely talked about in the right specific places.
In your own recent experience, what are the top 1-3 things people should keep in mind for a Product Hunt launch. I am making this post hoping the comments and discussions cut through the "noise" of what's important.
It seems like the Product Hunt platform is changing and there are new special launch days like Alpha Day, to be aware of. It would be awesome to get fresh perspectives on what works well right now for planning and executing a successful launch.
I see many countries promoting social media to raise the age for using it (e.g., Australia, the UK, etc.).
The sad thing is that some parents are already giving their toddlers a tablet to "entertain" them. This hurts the child's brain development. Not to mention when they get on social media and are exposed to various trends.
Had someone tell me they nearly closed the tab in the first ten seconds, the homepage confused them that much. Instead they stuck around and told me exactly what tripped them up, and that one note led to the clearest improvement I've made in weeks. Not from someone who loved it instantly. From someone who almost didn't give it a chance at all.
There's a real bias in how most of us read feedback. The comments that feel good come from people who got it immediately, nice to hear, but they rarely teach you anything, because that person was never confused to begin with. The uncomfortable comments, from people who almost walked away, are the ones actually pointing at the exact gap between what you built and what a stranger experiences walking in cold.
Easy to brush past those in the moment because they don't feel like validation. But they're the closest thing you'll get to someone narrating their real first impression back to you, and that's something nobody who already understands your product can give you.
Has a "I almost gave up on this" comment ever ended up being the most useful thing someone told you? What did it change?
