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I'm seeing more products launch on Product Hunt that require payment to actually use any features. No free trial, no freemium tier, just a download that leads straight to a paywall.
Part of me thinks this makes sense. If your product has real value, why give it away? People on Product Hunt understand they're looking at premium tools. Plus offering free access can attract users who will never pay anyway.
But I also see the argument for temporary free access during launch. Product Hunt users want to actually try what they're upvoting. How can they give meaningful feedback or become advocates if they hit a paywall immediately?
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During today s standup meeting, an idea came up about improving our presence on Reddit (for LLM search visibility and similar reasons).
One of the suggestions was to look for high-karma accounts and possibly buy them to appear more credible when posting and mentioning the product within the posts/comments. It s a tactic, sure, but to me it already feels like it crosses an ethical line. I sometimes worry they can seriously damage a company s reputation.
I m about to let visitors try my app before they sign up. The easy way is anonymous sign-ins: every visitor gets a real user ID, so limits, row-level security, and the saved result all keep working, and signing up later converts that same user.
Before writing any of it, I had Claude Code read the code, and I separately queried the live database. The two disagreed.
The code review said the results table requires a user id. The live column is nullable. The migration files said one thing and the database did another.
My users table requires an email, and a trigger copies the email from the auth table into it every time a user is created. An anonymous user has no email. I haven t tried it, but a trigger that fails inside sign-up usually takes the whole sign-up down with it. On launch day that would have looked like a vague database error , and I would have blamed the auth setting.
The fix is a new migration that lets email be empty, then a check of every query and job that assumes an email exists (the weekly email, for one). It isn t shipped yet.
