I'm preparing an update to my article about the top alternatives to Product Hunt: https://www.tetriz.io/blog/top-4... So far I have been covering MicroLaunch, Fazier, BetaList & AppSumo. Which other platform do you think deserves to be mentioned?
It is ~7 days with a new format (changing Discussions Forums) The biggest changes I noticed in my behaviour and reflecting towards UX, and UI: On the Forums page, we can see besides the title also the part of the description (it is like a hook to participate in one of them) Conversations are better moderated. Less bots, more genuine feedback. Tagging users via the handle. You can contribute apart from General, Introduce yourself, and Self-promotion to the Product forum instead of choosing these 3 topics, you can start typing the name of the product. Things, I haven't figured out yet:
We started as a sustainable made-to-order clothing brand. Custom pieces, small batch, everything done internally sourcing, pattern making, grading, cutting, production. The unit economics actually worked because we controlled the whole chain. We even partnered with creators in the thrifting space to get the word out.
But we still couldn't reach enough people. Getting a small brand in front of a large audience without a huge marketing budget is a different kind of impossible. We were bootstrapping and every channel felt like shouting into the void. The product was good. The audience just couldn't find us.
That was the moment realizing we didn't have a product problem, we had a distribution problem. And no amount of improving the clothes was going to fix it.
Hi PHerz! This is not a problem discovery post lol. Just a normal chat to see what others face in their daily lives, cause building stuff and in general trying to do things in life is a roller coaster. For me, a lot of stuff piss me off hah!
However, one thing that does a lot, is the fact that I see the majority outsourcing their lives to the "system". I see people still admiring folks like Elon Musk, people working jobs they dont like and being ok that they will work for 40 years, without realizing they only live once. Buying the newest cars, the newest iphones, posting fake things on social media. Without even thinking the consequences of all this. Feels like people gave up on thinking for themselves. Anyways, hectic day, so I felt like sharing a more "deep" topic. What about you? What pisses you off in this world?
I work closely with product and growth teams, and one challenge I keep running into is explaining user drop-offs to people who aren t deep into analytics.
The data usually shows where users leave, but turning that into a clear, confident explanation without overloading dashboards or making assumptions can be tough. Especially when the audience is leadership or business stakeholders.
Just yesterday I prevented my team from adding an exotic feature to our product.
My hypothesis is that people don't like many features in a product as that complicates the product adoption e.g. many sales guys hate CRMs for this reason. In that sense, more features might equate to no features as users don't adopt/use the product. So, minimalistic products that solve 1 big problem (80% of the problem pie) is what people like.
Every company has its own vibe, but I ve noticed a pattern: the bigger the company, the less they tend to do for employees around Christmas.
In smaller teams (or startups), it s usually way cosier people actually try to keep the holiday spirit alive (in our country, that often means a Christmas bonus, extra salary, vitamin packs, food hampers, etc.).
