This week I went through the sign-up flow of ten well-known products, imagining an AI assistant doing it for me. It could read what each product does and what it costs. On almost every one it would stop at the email confirmation or a CAPTCHA. I had never thought of a sign-up form as something software would fill in.
I see three ways to handle it, and I keep going back and forth:
Keep sign-up human-only. Safer, and nobody has to think about bots with accounts.
Let the agent do everything except one approval step, where the person confirms the email and accepts the terms.
Give agents their own path, like an API key or OAuth login, separate from the human form.
We know that productivity is a daily challenge for remote workers. I am guilty. So I am curious how you guys keep productivity at peak (or at a functioning level, at least) while working remotely? A good night's sleep and a cup of coffee/matcha are great boosts for me. How about you?
Most entrepreneurs, especially bootstrappers are working from home, alone, struggling with trying to get paying users, and not really knowing what to do... There are just too many variables... Any tips to deal with it?
I logged every indexing notification for 58 days. 551 total. 187 were for pages that had already been indexed weeks earlier.
My sitemap was regenerating on every deploy. The API kept seeing "new" URLs that hadn't changed. I gated the sitemap build behind a content hash check.
Do you remember when technology blew your mind for the first time ever and kickstarted your tech ambition? For me it was the iPod Nano, I remember seeing the ad and being hooked on tech and especially music tech ever since.
Whenever I click through to the social media profiles of the makers in the product hunt community, I find that they are quite versatile and are involved in things other than just business.
What other skills do you have besides your work skills?
For 3 years I used one productivity tool for everything. Tags, folders, structures, systems. I knew every shortcut. Then one day I opened it and realized I hadn't actually done anything in it for weeks. I'd only been organizing, moving things around, building systems that never got used. I switched to a plain text file, and more work is getting done now.
The tool wasn't bad. I was using it to feel productive instead of being productive.
So for those who've dropped a tool they depended on: was it actually the tool's fault or was it the way you were using it? And the harder question: what tool are you using right now mostly to feel organized not to actually do anything?
After being on Product Hunt for almost 4 years, I ve realised one thing.
The vast majority of people launch their product once, and that s it.
It gives me a slight feeling that the product might stop existing a few months later.
On the other hand, makers who repeatedly launch major updates give me the impression that they re serious about their product s direction. I d probably feel much more comfortable paying for a lifetime deal from them because the product is likely to still be around months from now.
