Every client conversation this quarter eventually lands on the same question. Why doesn't ChatGPT recommend us. We can never answer it properly, because the measurement underneath is broken.

Referrers from ChatGPT and Perplexity are inconsistent, a lot of it arrives as direct traffic, and so the honest answer to "how many of our signups touched an AI tool first" is usually that we don't know.

I keep downloading to-do apps, using them seriously for a week, and then forgetting the app exists.

So I m trying to figure out if that s a me problem or if some of these apps just become too much work.

Looking at Todoist and TickTick right now. They both seem capable enough, but I m less interested in who has more features.

I see stuff on here all the time that looks interesting but I'm not in the mood to try right then, so I tell myself I'll come back to it. I almost never do. It just disappears into the void.

Do you bookmark things, save them somewhere, or just let it go and figure if it's good you'll hear about it again?

I think I have a problem with this.

I'll find a new tool and immediately convince myself that this is the one.

Move stuff over.
Set everything up.
Spend way too much time customizing it.

And for a few days I'm very happy with myself.

I spent way too much time draft-editing a simple question on a discussion thread yesterday before I finally just closed the tab.

It s easy to feel like your feedback needs to be super insightful or technical to be worth posting. But in reality founders usually just want honest, straightforward reactions from real people using their stuff.

I'm trying to stop treating simple comment threads like formal essay submissions.

What helped you stop overthinking your inputs and just post your thoughts naturally?

This happens to me all the time. I find a new app, use it for a few days, like it, and then just stop opening it. Nothing was wrong with it, it just quietly dropped out of my routine.
Even great tools fall through the cracks because the habit never formed.

Does this happen to you? How do you get a new tool to actually stick in your workflow?

A presentation can look polished and still be completely unusable.

I ve been testing AI-generated decks built from messy source material: PDFs, research documents, notes, spreadsheets, and existing presentations.

Most failures seem to fall into five categories:

1. Inventing claims that aren t supported by the source

2. Missing the actual storyline

3. Removing important context

4. Ignoring the existing brand or presentation style

5. Producing slides that are difficult to edit afterward

I ve bounced between the two a few times and keep changing my mind. One feels nicer for certain things, then I ll go back to the other because I miss some small feature.

I m less interested in which one looks cooler and more interested in which one you still enjoy using after the initial excitement wears off.

If you ve properly used both, which one won you over?

I don t send enough invoices to justify signing up for some massive accounting platform. Right now I m doing them manually, which is fine until I need to dig up an old invoice or remember whether someone actually paid.

There have to be some simple options for people who only do this occasionally.

What are you using for invoices without all the extra accounting stuff?