This week we were ready to build a feature that seemed like an obvious win.

Before starting, we reached out to a few users and asked a simple question:

"What slows you down the most?"

Not one person mentioned the feature we were about to build.

Hit a 27 day streak here today. Wanted to look at what those days actually added up to instead of just collecting the badge.

361 kitty points total. Comments sit at 98. Forum threads sit at 248, from a small handful of posts. A few threads outscored dozens of comments combined.

Contributor is still 0 out of 5, same as day one. That one needs the room to like a comment, not just posting it.

Buddy System was stuck at 7 out of 10 for over a week, then ticked up to 8 off a single reply. So it does move, just entirely on the other person's timing, not mine.

I've been working through pricing for my service, Retic, a goal and habit tracker I'm about to launch, and ran into a framing problem I didn't expect.

The obvious move is the classic $9 $5 "early bird" discount. Except there's no real $9 to strike through. The product has never charged anyone anything, so a crossed-out price would just be a number I invented to make $5 look like a deal.

Built this over the last few weeks of putting the same effort into different threads and watching some go nowhere.

Check the OP's reply history first. If they never reply to anyone on their own thread, skip it, no matter how many comments it already has.

I've been thinking about this a lot while building a product and trying to figure out customer acquisition.

For a long time, I thought getting customers was mostly about finding the right companies, identifying the right person, and reaching out to them.

But the more conversations I look at across places like Reddit, LinkedIn, X, Product hunt, Bluesky and different communities, the more I m starting to question that approach.

People constantly talk about problems they re having.

Are you using a dedicated tool, checking prompts manually, or not measuring this yet?

I m especially curious about:

• Which AI platforms do you monitor?

• Do you track mentions, citations, sentiment, or share of voice?

• How do you choose the prompts worth tracking?

• Have you found a tool you genuinely trust?

• What is still missing from the tools you have tried?

Would love to hear what your current workflow looks like.

When I started building my current project, the idea was actually quite simple.

I wanted to make a small app to record what I was learning while experimenting with AI-assisted coding basically the things I discovered, the problems I ran into, and what I learned from talking with AI while trying to build different things.

But as I kept working on it, the project slowly changed. Some of my notes started turning into beginner-friendly learning content, I added different paths and examples, and eventually it became much more different functions.

Hey, I'm Wiki, an MD turned founder

I launched a consumer health app 3 days ago and I'm at ~100 users, all organic. I know that's a modest number, but it feels like a decent start for the first few days. I'm not planning to do paid acquisition if possible, I care more about building a community around the product than buying installs.

Anyone else feel like making short form content takes twice as long as it should? I spent three hours last night just trimming raw clips and fixing audio pacing. How are you all keeping your post-production workflow sane without spending all day in an editor?

I've been thinking a lot about the human side of building a product.

Not the tech stack. Not the launch strategy. The part nobody puts in a Product Hunt launch story.

How did you balance it with a full-time job?
Did you ever seriously doubt the idea?
What kept you going when nobody cared yet?
How did you deal with the feeling that you were wasting your time?
What surprised you most about yourself during the process?

I'm currently going through this myself. I'm a Brand Designer & Art Director, and I'm building my first product for designers. I'd genuinely love to hear from people who have already been through this.