For months we measured our startups success by signups and weekly traffic spikes from social media shares. We celebrated hitting one thousand accounts while ignoring that eighty percent of those users never returned for a session.

We realized our acquisition funnel was like pouring water into a bucket. Our weekly active user graph stayed flat even though new signups were steady. The growth numbers looked great on paper. The business fundamentals were stagnant.

We paused all paid acquisition campaigns for two weeks. We spent that sprint fixing drop off points in our core activation loop. By shortening the setup process by three steps our day seven retention jumped from twelve percent, to forty five percent.

What metric made you realize your acquisition strategy was hiding a product retention loop?

I'm interested in knowing what approaches indie developers and Makers use when getting ready for the final preparation step before submitting their iOS app to Apple for App Store Review.

I'm currently working on my own app, Lina, a task management tool that automatically arranges tasks by their priority and dependencies and uses notifications to help users stick to schedule.

And while preparing my app for submission, I've noticed that reviewing only the App Store Review Guidelines is not enough. There are lots of details that may easily get overlooked.

And if you've launched any iOS apps, I'd be interested in learning your workflows.

I always aim to raise topics and questions relevant to startups/products and my personal endeavors that others might relate to.

The threads usually start with an intro to the topic, my experience, and, lastly, ask others to share their experiences. I try to structure these parts into clear, error-free sections so that they are easy to read. I have never used AI, for what it's worth.

Anthropic is rolling out weekly rate limits for Claude Code on Pro and Max plans starting August 28. They're saying it'll only affect ~5% of subscribers, the ones running Claude Code continuously in the background, plus a handful violating ToS by sharing or reselling accounts.

Link to article here.

I have this laptop that has been formatted but I had some important pictures on it, I used disc drill and the files are still there but the problem is it's about 200-300gb of pictures and videos and I cant afford to buy disk drill pro. I am aware that this sub Reddit has a list of good free tools but which one would be the best for me? The laptop is about 10 years old and has a HDD it's an Acer running Windows 10. I just want the all pictures and videos that's it.

The quiet churn is honestly way more brutal than angry cancellation emails. When people just fade away without saying a word it usually means your tool is nice to play with when life is calm but the second things get busy it gets completely forgotten.

We thought our clean dashboard and smooth UX were enough but we hadn't anchored ourselves to a painful daily bottleneck.

If you noticed your users drifting off silently, how did you figure out what was missing to make the product truly essential?

Early on it's so easy to trick yourself into thinking you have traction just because people are visiting your site and creating accounts.

But acquisition means nothing if everyone leaks out the back door a week later.

We used to celebrate every signup milestone until we realized half of them never came back for a second session.

Hi hunters!

In the past few months I've been given the reins to the GTM horses of a young budding organisation. Mind you I'm no more than 22 years of age and I graduated in May. All my life I was all about research and never, never marketing. Everyone told me GTM is about charisma, cold calls, flashy decks. I thought I'd be terrible at it. I'm the guy who spent undergrad in Stata and EViews running logit regressions on 200+ investors, modeling power sector data for 50 years to figure out where to put 40Cr of battery storage.

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

Who is pouring into you?

A dependency update the agent suggested worked locally and in CI. It broke production because the production environment had a different version of a peer dependency. The agent checked package.json. It didn't check what was actually installed.

Now I run npm ls after any dependency change and compare against the lockfile. What's a green build that lied?