The most valuable thing you own in the AI age isn't your AI. In my opinion, It's your data model. My 2nd vote would be Sales!
I've been building business software for the last year, and I keep watching companies make the same expensive mistake. They add an AI tool for support. Another for writing. Something for invoices. A notetaker. Each one is genuinely good at its job.
And each one is a silo.
Six months later somebody asks a simple question "what did we actually sell this month, and which of it got collected?" and there's no answer. Not because the data doesn't exist. Because it exists in eight places, in eight shapes, and nothing reconciles.
I've been heads-down building for the last few months, and now that I'm past my first launch I'm hitting the classic problem: every hour spent writing code is an hour not spent talking to users, posting, or actually finding people who need what I built. For those of you doing this solo (or with a tiny team) what's your actual split? Is it a strict schedule (mornings = build, afternoons = marketing), or more reactive depending on what's on fire that week? Has that ratio shifted as you've grown, or gotten more lopsided one way?
Trying to figure out if I should be spending less time in the editor right now, or if that's premature.
My team and I are in an exciting position we ve built a pipeline of multiple products that we plan to roll out one by one over the coming months.
Before we start launching them officially, our goal is to build a solid base of early followers, waitlists, and subscribers for each product so we can hit the ground running on day one.
For those who have successfully launched multiple products or built strong pre-launch momentum:
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Mine today: put the audio track of a carousel post as one of the items inside the carousel, rather than picking a generic background song. If you hear a song and want to know which one it is, you swipe until you find it. Costs nothing, takes no extra work, and it turns passive audio into a reason to keep going. I'm a solo founder with basically no audience, so most of what I can do has to be free. Which turns out to be a decent constraint it forces you to find the mechanics rather than buy reach. What's yours? Small change, real difference.
I want to launch the product faster, and for me, functionality matters more than aesthetics. But my designer keeps saying aesthetics is subjective. There are a lot of things that could hold us back from an early launch. How I should manage it? Does Aethetics such subjective for early launches?
I m relatively new to Product Hunt and have spent the last few days getting familiar with the platform. I ve seen some really compelling products, but are there any restricted categories or product types that aren t able to be launched or marketed on the site? Just curious if there are any restricted categories that I am not aware of.
Is it truly vibe coding if there aren't tunes making the vibes...well...vibey. Thought it'd be fun to put together a YouTube playlist of what everyone listens to when building! I'll take all the links and make a playlist on YouTube after a couple of days :) Just drop the link and tag the tool that you mostly use. I'll start! I vibe with Black Coffee and mostly use @Cursor!
