When i first started using productivity apps I thought i d stick to one simple system and never overcomplicate it.
A while later I somehow ended up with different apps for notes tasks reminders and random ideas. Some of it is useful but sometimes I wonder if I m just creating more work for myself. How do you tell when your system is actually improving versus just becoming more complicated?
When I first started building things I thought adding more features would always make the product better.
Then I realized every extra feature also adds more decisions suppor and things that can break. Sometimes the hardest part is knowing what to remove. How do you decide when a product needs more features versus when it just needs to be simpler?
China's new top paid app doesn't help you find a ride, order food, or socialize with friends. It just asks you whether you're alive.
The app, which translates to "Are You Dead Yet?" the presence of the "yet" suggests the developer probably isn't on the Bryan Johnson "don't die" train...yet) requires you to log in daily and click a button to show you're alive. Miss two days in a row and the app will notify your emergency contact. That's it. That's the app.
How do you all come up with a name when you're launching something new?
For me naming is always the hardest part. I've named around 30 products so far and this is roughly my flow:
- One sentence on what the product actually does, not the feature list. Most of my names come out of that sentence
- Then names from anywhere. One of my apps basically stands in for you, so it became Kagemusha, a Japanese word for a double. Short, and no AI or Pro stuck on the end
For a while now, whenever I ve been building different apps, I ve often found myself feeling frustrated and a little scared somewhere in the middle of the process.
There s also another difficult phase that comes after building, especially when the product doesn t get the results you were hoping for. You start feeling disappointed, and thoughts like This is never going to work or No one is going to use this start creeping in.
Have you ever felt the same way? What helped you get through it, and how do you deal with these thoughts when they come up? :)
It s been officially 1 month since I launched my website on Google. Things are running smoothly on the product side, but SEO-wise, I ve hit a brick wall.
Right now, my Moz Domain Authority (DA) is stuck at 1, and I haven't managed to earn a single organic backlink yet.
For those who have been through the early-stage SEO grind:
I build HIPAA compliant AI for healthcare, and last month I deleted a feature I had just finished. It was a journey analytics module in our internal dashboard: stage by stage funnel, cohorts, drop off between every step. The module worked as designed. I removed it anyway.
The reason is that I could not name one decision it had changed. I opened it, read the stages, agreed with them, closed the tab. It described the past accurately and left me where I started, because a funnel tells you where people stopped and never tells you which of the eleven things on that screen to cut.
Product Hunt has rolled out a major redesign for its forums, taking inspiration from Reddit s subreddit structure. The new design offers a familiar Reddit-style layout, making it easy to dive into product-specific or topic-specific discussions. Here s a breakdown of the key updates based on my observation: Subreddit-style forums Each product now has a dedicated forum under "p/product," where launch comments and discussions are centralized. Broader topics are grouped under "p/topic," such as product recommendations, general discussions, introductions and self-promotion. This mirrors Reddit s "r/subreddit" system, making navigation familiar for users. Forum threads filters
