Hello all, I am working on a networking tool. I want to know how do you find your seed users and fast-track brand growth in the early days of building a product?

Thank you for sharing.

If I were a Member of the European Parliament, I would ask one question before supporting any new technology policy:

If a government outside Europe restricted our access to frontier AI tomorrow, how much of our technological future would still be under European control?

I do not mean a product that was overhyped or a launch that fizzled out. I mean something you personally got excited about, signed up for, maybe even recommended to a friend, and then quietly abandoned a few weeks later.

For me, it was a note-taking app I found on Product Hunt a while back. The design was beautiful, the concept made complete sense, and I really wanted it to be the tool that finally organized my thoughts. After a week, though, I realized I was spending more time tweaking settings and organizing layouts than actually writing anything. I ended up going right back to Apple Notes.

Have you had a tool like this? What was the product, and what made you realize it was not going to stick?

I've been building my SaaS for the last 3 months. Biggest thing I've ever worked on. Lost about 4kg, barely slept, basically lived inside this thing.

The whole time I was building, I was confident. Then QA week started and something flipped. Now I keep thinking, what if nobody signs up? What if I launch and it's just silence?

I don't know why the doubt showed up now of all times, right at the end.

Anyone else go through this before their first real launch? Did it pass once you shipped, or is this just part of it?

In the beginning, everything feels fast and exciting. You have an idea, people start trying it, feedback comes in. But what happens when that energy slows down?

There s often a quiet middle stage less feedback, fewer new users, and more questions in your head:

Am I building the right thing?

Should I keep pushing or change direction?

The sheer volume of AI note-taking tools launching lately is overwhelming, and most of them pitch the exact same feature list.

I spent a month letting an automated bot record my calls to see if it would replace my notepad. The result? A massive archive of long transcripts that I literally never look at again.

Writing quick bullet points manually forces me to actually process the information in real-time, whereas automated summaries just create digital noise I have to filter later.

Has an AI notetaker genuinely improved your daily routine, or do you still prefer plain text notes for keeping track of important stuff?

International expansion in fintech looks exciting from the outside, but the operational reality can be very different.

Once a company moves beyond its home market, a lot of complexity appears very quickly:

• different regulatory expectations

• new banking relationships

• local payment rails

• compliance and financial-crime controls

• licensing timelines

• customer behaviour

• local partnerships

• operational staffing

What I find interesting is that the biggest challenge is often not the one founders originally expect.

Product Hunt unveiled a list of 18 dev-first products nominated for the Golden Kitty Award 2023 in the Developer Tools category.
I analyzed the following data to identify some trends:

• launch dates;

• # upvotes;

• # comments;

• awards.

Here s what I found.

# tl,dr

Hi there! I've been working in content marketing & SEO for almost a decade - and while I've seen many announcements of the death of SEO, the current search climate, combined with the latest announcements from Google are strong signals that SEO may (finally ) be over.

What do you think? Is "answer engine optimization" the answer?

There are a hundred posts about how to succeed on Product Hunt.

This is about how to not fail.

Our latest Product Hunt launch was a disaster. Just as we had hoped.