This week in the Product Hunt blog, we have a banger from Julia Yu. She's the co-founder of 2024 Golden Kitty winner Unicorns Club, which matches VCs with early-stage startups. She's also founded three VC-backed companies herself.
According to Julia, early-stage founders need to change their mental model about pre-seed funding ASAP. As she puts it:
Once upon a time (in fact, as recently as two years ago), early-stage startups needed three things to get into investor conversations: a strong narrative, a solid team, and a prototype. Now, in most software categories, that s no longer enough.
The advent of AI has shifted investors attention to actual metrics. Yes, even at the pre-seed level, investors don t care so much about promise as they do about realized potential. They want monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and growth rate.
I'm currently learning React and the problem I always have when learning something new but especially anything related to code is the endless amount of resources the web has, it's a blessing and a curse as it's hard to pick a resource and go along with it. Where would you recommend a beginner to start?
The AI researchers at Andon Labs, the people who gave Anthropic Claude an office vending machine to run, and hilarity ensued, have published the results of a new AI experiment.
They wanted to see if LLMs were technically capable of functioning as a robot s brain, that is, connecting their thinking (textual decision-making) with real sensors and movement.
There are tons of stories about founders launching SaaS products without an existing audience. No Twitter following, no newsletter, no community, nothing. Yet some still manage to get early traction and even hit real MRR.
If you have started from zero, I would love to hear:
How you got your first users
What channels brought the earliest traction
Whether cold outreach works or not
If content played a role or if you focused mainly on building
What you would do differently if you had to start again
I was wondering where I can see the last new posts on Producthunt. Especially the new projects that are being launched. I'm very much interested in the newest project, because the ones on top of the leaderbord already are known by many. Thanks for your help, greetings Verdictfootball
For us at wcrd.me, we are trying to get people to connect faster and engage in two way communication , rather than an email every two weeks. Tell me, what are you working on that you see an opportunity others aren't taking?
Every now and then, I treat myself to a workshop to learn something. (Officially, I do it because I work from home and sometimes the lack of socialising makes me sick.) :D
Today I'm going to an art-related workshop. It's a bit outside my field, but on the other hand, marketing also uses creative (I wonder if it will give me something relevant).
I am a front-end developer and want to develop a SaaS product. What is the solo founder s best strategy for building SaaS product and reaching customers? How do you manage your time and how much time do you devote to each?
Every team I talk to has more feature requests than they can act on, and most of it doesn't come with clean data attached, just a support ticket or a Slack message from a customer. For those running product teams here, what's your actual process for turning scattered feedback into a prioritized roadmap? Curious whether people are doing this manually in spreadsheets, using a dedicated PM tool, or something else entirely.
