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2mo ago

What actually makes a UI feel well-designed now?

I m a product designer, and I ve been thinking about what we actually mean when we say a UI is well designed.

AI can already make something clean, consistent, and visually polished pretty quickly.

But the moment a UI looks AI-generated, we often seem to judge it differently.

That feels a little strange to me. Most designers I know are already using AI somewhere in their process.

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1yr ago

🎯 Stop obsessing over “teen founders” — from 18 y.o. founder

People love to obsess over age. Every time a teenager ships something, the headline is: Look, they re only 17! It s become a whole genre of founder story.

But honestly it s the least interesting part.

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9mo ago

Launched last week, #7 with 179 upvotes. Guess the traffic, sign ups, and paying customers so far

Hi all,

I thought it might be useful for some to hear our experience launching on Product Hunt. How we prepared, what happened during launch day, and what results we re seeing five days in.

Is running a lifetime deal for quick SaaS cash ever actually worth it?

Offered a one-time lifetime deal at launch and got a thousand users right away which felt amazing at first.

Turned out those users created most of our support tickets demanded tons of custom features and paid zero monthly fees.

Switching to a normal monthly sub slowed growth down, but paying customers are way easier to work with.

Have you guys ever done lifetime deals or do you stick strictly to monthly plans?

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1yr ago

Longevity tools, the potential of this business model and which ones to use?

Since I've been watching Bryan Johnson's experiments on his body, I've also become interested in tools that help to improve life. (Mainly hardware, but also software.)

In my opinion, more and more people from more developed countries want to improve the quality of their lives, and therefore they are willing to invest quite a lot in these things.

I can see it predominantly in the US market, UK, Canada, Germany, France, and possibly Sweden.

Has anyone removed their free tier and actually seen profits increase?

We've kept a free tier running as our main growth engine but it's getting expensive to maintain.

While some of our best paid users started on the free plan a huge chunk of our weekly support energy goes toward answering questions for non paying accounts.

Without clear tracking on our exact conversion rates it feels like we're spending valuable dev attention on users who have zero intention of buying.

We're considering switching to a free trial model instead.

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1yr ago

What are you using to personalize cold email right now?

Trying to get a read on the real-world stack. Vote for what you use to personalize at scale. If you use a combo, pick your primary and drop details in the comments.

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