I initially thought of AI as a way to save time on the work I already had. Lately, I am spending some of that saved time doing things I would previously have left alone because I didn't have the skills, budget, or time for them.
For me, that has meant:
Building automation scripts, including one to generate release notes
Creating workflows using tools like Zapier
Putting together working prototypes before building the final version
AI has a very problem very frustating to me. It just suddenly forgets what was the task. For example, once I was developing some application and I asked AI to improve certain button colors, etc. it did that very nicely. But, I did not asked you to change the background color and make it white all of a sudden.
It did many moe such things previously. Whenever I ask it to change or add X, something else changes too which wasn't required at all. For me, it also changed a bit of functionality earlier. Have you ever been in the same situation?
We ran a massive discount campaign a few months back and got a crazy amount of signups. Felt great at the time, but three months later, half of those accounts vanished in one go.
Turns out when you heavily discount your product, you attract bargain hunters who were never looking for a long-term solution to begin with. It completely skewed our metrics.
If you ve run promos before did you notice a massive spike in churn right after, or did some of those users actually stick around?
Almost every founder I know has one line from a customer that's better than anything they'd have written themselves. Usually it's the oddly specific one. The bit you'd never have thought to claim about your own product.
What I find interesting is how those actually arrive, because it's almost never the polite follow-up email asking for a testimonial. Mine turn up by accident. Someone says it in passing at the end of a call, or drops it into a support thread, and if you don't catch it right there it's gone for good.
My feed was full of "passive income" gurus, so I jumped in. I spent weeks designing logos, tweaking my website, picking colors, and building a fancy brand identity for a new project.
I felt like a real founder. But when I looked at my actual income, 90% of my earnings came from one basic thing: reaching out directly to people, listening to their problems, and offering to help.
The beautiful website didn't make me a dollar. I wasn't building because customers were begging for my product; I was playing business because I wanted to feel productive.
That lesson stuck with me. Now, before I spend a single hour on branding or tech, I ask: "Can I get one paying customer for this idea today using just a simple message?" If I can't, I don't build it.
High attendance is easily one of the most misleading community metrics out there. A crowded room where everyone is muted with their cameras off creates almost zero actual connection.
We tried switching to intimate roundtables recently but the hardest part was getting people past that awkward initial silence. If you don't explicitly prompt everyone with a specific problem to talk about right away, people just freeze up.
For those running small interactive sessions what ground rules or conversation starters do you use to force active participation without making attendees feel put on the spot?
I m a solo founder building a B2B SaaS product for businesses.
I spent time researching the market and initially received positive interest for the idea. After building the product, however, I started facing a different challenge.
I m getting regular demos and the feedback is usually positive. People often say the product looks useful, but I m still struggling to get my first paying customer. Some prospects also say they already use larger enterprise systems for similar workflows.
