I work a lot on my own as a solopreneur. When nobody is expecting anything from me, I find it difficult to find the right direction and stay on track with what I have to do.

I first tried to fix that with a routine. Every Sunday evening I wrote down what I wanted to do that week, and I blocked time in my calendar. It worked for a few weeks, then I dropped it.

First post here. Been browsing Product Hunt for a while without an account and finally made one.

Small frustration. So many products won't let you see anything until you make an account. No demo, no screenshots of the actual interface, no way to poke around. Just a signup form and a promise.

Half the time I sign up, look around for two minutes, and realize it's not for me. Now they have my email and I have nothing. I've started just closing the tab when signup is the first step, even if the product looked interesting.

Wanted to know how other people deal with this. Will you sign up to try something you're on the fence about, or does that immediately kill it for you? And has a product ever won you over with just a good demo, no account needed?

Hey PH community

I m curious how much time have you personally spent trying to come up with a business idea, without actually starting anything?

I'm currently building a tiny tool to reduce churn for SaaS products using Stripe, something super simple:

But before I go too far, I m genuinely curious...

How do YOU handle cancellations right now?

• Do you ask why they leave to improve your product?

• Do you offer a discount? A pause?

• Or just let them go?

Lots of app makers here run creator or UGC programs alongside their launches, so figured this is a good crowd to ask.

Views are easy to count. Installs mostly too. The tricky bit seems to be knowing which creator brought the people who actually subscribe, and who's still around a month later.

I built a journaling app, and while working on it I noticed that almost every app
in the category follows the same playbook:

Streaks. Counters. Badges. "Don't break your streak."

To be fair, they work. Retention charts don't lie.

But I kept wondering:
At what point does a habit stop helping people and start feeling like homework they owe an app?

Our automated exit survey asked only one multiple choice question. Options included missing features or pricing. Eighty percent of churned users chose the pricing option. This made us think we needed to change our price tiers. That was a mistake.

When we sent emails to a few of those churned users we learned that churned users left because the setup process was too slow not because of the cost. Churned users used the pricing answer as a cover to avoid explaining further.

We swapped the generic multiple choice form for a text box. We also gave a reward for a real explanation. The written feedback told us where the friction lay and we fixed it.

Never rely on cancellation checkboxes alone. Use qualitative follow up to discover why churned users really leave.

Our early roadmap turned into a chaotic mess of custom requests from outspoken free users who wanted special integrations. We tried to build everything. That made us delay core stability updates for our paying customers.

We made a rule: no feature request goes onto the main product roadmap unless three different enterprise clients ask for it in one month. All other requests go into a backlog.

Our core application became faster and more stable. Our churn rate fell because our engineering focus matched our real revenue source.

Do not let loud community voices pull your product roadmap into directions that do not serve your paying customer base.

On Twitter, it is classic many of us follow YCombinator people, Angel Investors, or big indie makers.

The most popular are:

• Garry Tan

• Levelsio

• Marc Andreessen

• Marc Lou

• Michael Seibel

• Naval