We probably spend less time online during the weekend since we take a break from work and want to enjoy time with family and friends, go out, and relax. Understandably, fewer people are available to support our product over the weekend. Here are a few things that might help: Request follows for the "Notify Me" page well in advance. Use a more private email for notifications instead of a work email, as people are less likely to check work emails over the weekend with work emails, they ll see them probably on Monday. Send two messages to be safe: one a few days before the launch during the workweek and another right on the weekend. Engage with users who have the highest streaks those who open the app daily, even on weekends. They re more likely to support your product. Be active on social media and talk about this launch. Would you add something?
Hi there, well :) not much to add here, my Q is what I'm sharing in the title. Maybe just to add a bit of context, I'd like to have smth I won't pay for here :)
See them everywhere here. "ama, ask me anything about growth/fundraising/whatever." feels generous. usually isn't.
Most of the time the answers are generic enough to apply to anyone, "focus on your users," "iterate fast," stuff that sounds like advice but changes nothing for the person asking. The real, specific, useful answer would require actually knowing the asker's exact situation, which a public ama can't give.
Not saying don't ask questions. Saying the format optimizes for volume of replies, not quality of answers. The good stuff usually happens after, in dms, one on one, not in the thread everyone's watching.
This is the eighth time i've had a completely normal discussion thread rejected. no links, no self-promotion, nothing that violates anything i can actually read in your guidelines. Just an opinion meant to start a conversation.
Eight times. whatever's flagging these clearly isn't checking for actual intent, it's pattern matching on surface-level junk and getting it wrong, repeatedly. that's not a minor bug, that's a broken filter driving people away from posting anything real here.
I'm not the only one hitting this either, seen multiple threads from other users with the exact same complaint, rejected for reasons nobody can explain.
If your team actually cares about this platform staying a real community and not just a launch board, fix the model. Right now it's actively working against the thing product hunt is supposed to be for.
There's a stat that keeps haunting me: 61% of young adults report feeling seriously lonely. Not occasionally seriously.
I know this number isn't abstract. When I started building Murror (an AI companion app for young people battling isolation), I was living it. Working from a tiny apartment, going days without a real conversation, completely absorbed in a product designed to solve the very problem I was drowning in. The irony wasn't lost on me.
As leaders, we spend most of our time pouring into others. Our families, our friends, our teams. We invest our time, energy, and presence in being there for others. But somewhere along the way, it becomes easy to overlook an important question
Anyone can build a demo now. With Lovable or Cursor you go from idea to working prototype in a couple of days. That part genuinely got easier.
What didn't get easier is everything after.
The demo becomes ten features. The features become tickets. The tickets create dependencies. Requirements change. Priorities shift. Some work isn't ready to start. Some is blocked on a decision nobody made. And some keeps moving long after the assumption behind it stopped being true.
Then someone asks the question nobody has a clean answer to: are we shipping the right thing, or just producing more work?
