My cofounder and I are building a booking SaaS for salons and beauty businesses in Bahrain.
We have a working product and have spoken with many local businesses, but getting customers to actually change their current workflow has been much harder than building the product.
The biggest surprise:
Many salons still manage appointments through WhatsApp + a notebook.
Over the past couple of weeks, we launched CodeYam CLI & Memory on both Show HN and Product Hunt. A bunch of founder and maker friends reached out asking how it went, what worked, and what we d do differently, so I wrote up a more honest reflection than I usually see shared.
I have been working in event tech industry where people can plan their event , book vendors and make a full plan and ecosystem for events across whole year with all the things needed embedded in a single platform . The pain point is that this industry runs through too much word of mouth and traditional ways , people call their fixed vendors and they handle that . So how to do affective marketing in such case with better results and good ROI?
Donald Trump's tariff policies are hitting the Korean stock market hard. The KOSPI is currently down 3%, and as an office worker in Korea, I am worried and feel uneasy. Could this lead to an economic crisis this year? I'm genuinely concerned. Let's talk this topic!
SF is buzzing this week, but the question travels: how do you actually meet the right people (cofounders, investors, collaborators, etc.) without burning the night? What works for me: be visible (present/pitch if possible instant context), be memorable (two-liner like I spent a decade in meetings at Apple left to fix that ), and be intentional (goal: 5 useful connections, 1 investor intro keep moving every 3 5 minutes).
Here's my simple framework:
Intent Target Ask (why you re here, who you need, concrete next step).
Anchor to the moment ( What stood out from the talk? ).
Exit cleanly ( Great chat mind if I send that link tonight? ).
I am a first time founder and planning to launch our product on product hunt. Any suggestions on the approach and also other platforms to look at for launching?
