As a person in her 20s navigating her own career path, I'm always curious to find out what draws people to certain professions and why they do what they do. What do you love about your job?
I've noticed Product Hunt has added a few gamification features like the "streak" on the landing page as well as badges for the profile pages. I think they are well done because they encourage the behaviour the platform wants to see and at the same time they aren't in your way. The "core" experience of Product Hunt always had a strong game-loop thanks to the upvoting and daily ranking dynamics but it is interesting to see these core ideas still being fleshed out more and more over time. Well done! Question: have you come across other apps or platforms that do gamification really well? Where it feels like part of the thing and not just like a gimmick? Any pointers appreciated!
I believe every project should have a website to showcase its offering, not to mention for SEO purposes. Whether SEO will still be relevant due to AI is another discussion.
Do you have any favourite websites that are both functional and beautifully designed?
I keep seeing the same pattern across early-stage teams:
the MVP works until it really doesn t.
For many founders, the hardest part isn t getting something online it s everything that comes after: infra that cracks under real users code that no dev wants to touch rewriting the whole stack AI-built projects no one can maintain the moment you realize your prototype isn t a product
Working on a new product can take an immense amount of planning and dealing with challenges before you even get started designing! What are the one or two most significant challenges you faced when putting your product together? Was it finding suitable funding? Deciding who you would work with or anything else.
