Hey Product Hunt community!

As our team prepares to launch our first SaaS product built entirely in-house, we spent the last week running end-to-end usability tests on our onboardings and product assets.

Coming from an engineering background, we initially focused heavily on code stability. But user testing quickly showed us that UX friction kills conversion faster than minor backend bugs.

3 specific things we had to fix before going public:

I've been pulling AI job listings straight from company career pages rather than reposting aggregators, and the function split surprised me enough that I wanted to put it somewhere people would argue with it.

Out of 17,255 live roles today: Engineering 43.5%, Sales & GTM 17.8%, Operations 11.6%, Research 5.6%, Marketing 4.7%, Product 3.6%, Policy & Safety 1.0%, Other 12.3%.

The honest caveat first, because it changes the headline: "Other" is titles my classifier could not confidently label, and spot-checking it, it contains real engineering roles. So "56% is not engineering" would be overclaiming. What I can defend is 44.3% sitting in a named non-engineering function. Sales & GTM alone is bigger than Research, Marketing and Product combined.

Two other numbers that stuck with me. Only 19.3% of these roles publish a salary. And 23% are remote, which is lower than the discourse suggests.

Hey everyone, I ve been thinking about how the CRM space is changing and wanted to hear different views from people building, selling or using these tools.

CRM used to mostly mean contacts, pipelines, and follow-ups. But now teams are expecting more: AI summaries, automated follow-ups, connected emails, client portals, project delivery, invoices, support, and deeper workflow automation.

So I m curious, do you think the future of CRM is still around sales pipelines or will it move more toward complete customer/workflow operating systems?

Mine's anything touching payments or auth. Not because the code would be wrong, because when it's wrong there's no diff to review before it already happened, a webhook fires and the consequence is already out the door.

Curious where other solo builders draw that line, since "just review the diff" stops being the safety net past a certain kind of change.

One thing I ve learned from building workflow tools: a task left halfway through is not the same as one that was never started. It can reveal where time, context, or a handoff broke down. Treating both states as simply incomplete hides the useful part.

How have you designed workflows to learn from interruptions without adding reporting burden for users?

I keep meeting owners running a CRM, an email tool, a scheduler, three dashboards, an AI writer, and a landing page builder, none of which talk to each other. They spend more time feeding the tools than talking to customers.

The pitch is always this saves you time. But ten time-savers that don t integrate cost more time than doing it by hand.

So where s the line? At what point did your stack stop serving the work and become the work? And has anyone actually cut tools and grown faster for it?

Hi Product Hunt community,

I m a solo developer who recently passed the production review for a mobile document viewer app.

Honestly, I built this out of pure personal frustration. I just wanted a lightweight, lightning-fast viewer to read my files (PDF, PPTX, DOCS, HWPX) without being bombarded by annoying ads. Personally, I am very satisfied with how it turned out.

But now, I m hitting a wall of self-doubt.

Everyone's chasing the flashiest AI demo. I've watched 50 years of tech cycles, and I'll tell you what actually wins: boring, structured tools that make AI do less, more reliably.

The generative stuff is cool. But reliability wins markets. Control wins markets. Predictability wins markets.

The winners of this AI wave won't be the ones that dazzle they'll be the ones that take the chaos out of a process and make it repeatable.

Think about it: spreadsheets beat fancy presentation software. Email beats any social platform. Plain text beats flashy WYSIWYG editors.

I miss Mint. And when I say that, I mean that I miss the old Mint before they got acquired by Intuit and started selling my data to anyone who would buy it. I want more than what my bank offers but this space seems surprisingly quiet unless I am hiding under a rock.

What's everyone using for personal finance?