After several years of founding and running a VC backed startup that got acquired by a fortune 100 I am looking to reconnect with the founder community!

With AI it's such a fun time to build now, but go-to-market is the new bottleneck. I'd love to connect with folks to share stories!

Hey PH community

I'm Pavel, solo founder from Georgia. Building two products:

Complyance EU AI Act compliance for SMBs. Free classifier, no signup. Enterprise tools cost $50K+/year, we built it for $99/month.

TraceHawk MCP-native observability for AI agents. See every tool call, cost, and decision. 2 lines of code.

Hey I'm James, a software developer from Australia with 20+ years building things professionally.

Most of my career I've been the person behind the scenes solving hard technical problems, shipping reliable software, making other people's ideas work. Unravl is the first thing I've built entirely for myself, and now I'm figuring out the part they don't teach developers: how to actually get it in front of people who might find it useful.

No funding. No growth team. No playbook. Just me, the product, and a lot of learning in public.

If you've been down this road builder trying to find an audience I'd genuinely love to hear what worked for you. And if Unravl sounds like something you'd use, even better.

Hey Product Hunt! I'm Rishav, builder from New Delhi, India.

1. What I've built:

   ARTH - a tax gap intelligence app for salaried Indians. It finds every rupee you're overpaying in taxes, in under 3 minutes, no tax consultant needed.

   Most salaried Indians leave north of 50,000($500USD) on the table every year. Not because the rules are unfair, but because nobody told them the rules.

2. What I'm building:

   NextHire - an AI screening engine that turns a job description and a folder of resumes into a ranked, reasoned shortlist in minutes, built for recruiters who are drowning in applications.

   The insight behind it:

   Recruiters spend 80% of screening time on resumes they'd reject in 10 seconds - the cost isn't a bad hire, it's the good hire they never reached.

   Still early, but already scoring 600+ resumes per session with field-level reasoning per candidate, and a feedback loop that lets recruiters refine the rubric in plain English until the output matches their judgment.

3. My background:

   A CS and AI student running the Product and Consulting club - Arthakram with real client work on the side.

4. Why I'm here:

   Real feedback from builders who ship. If you've launched something, you know what actually matters vs. what sounds good on paper. That's the conversation I want.

5. Let's connect:

   Building in fintech, consumer apps, or Indian markets? Let's talk. Always up for a conversation about product, GTM, or distribution.

Looking forward to being part of this community!

I had an idea. I had a plan. And the first thing people asked was, "Have you talked to investors?"

My answer was no. And it still is.

Not because I couldn't. But because I genuinely believe the best infrastructure gets built when you're obsessed with the problem, not the pitch deck. Investors optimise for scale before depth. I wanted to go deep first.

Hi all,

I just joined the platform today, after hearing about it for a while. I am a biology research scientist by training, and I absolutely love solving problems. I recently discovered I can apply that to tech development as well, and not just figuring out why my PCR didn't work again (it's honestly voodoo, I swear). I learned how to code, and with AI growing in leaps and bounds, the playing field is getting more accessible for those of us coming from a less techy background. I've built a few small projects, mainly for myself/friends/to practice, and I'm working on a project now that I would like to launch here when it's ready.

I think coming from a scientific research perspective into the world of app development has actually been a huge plus. I'm used to the build-test-doesn't work-iterate-try again cycle, just with tubes and pipettes instead of a terminal and Railway. Perseverance is the name of the game! And it helps when you love the process, too.

Everything is done. Page locked. Messages pre-written. Supporter list confirmed.

And I am still nervous.

Not because I do not believe in the product. I do. But launching is the moment you stop controlling the narrative. You put something real in front of strangers and ask them to care.

PromptOT launches Wednesday April 15. If you have been following this series, showing up tomorrow means everything.

Hi, I m David.

I ve always looked at things structurally and analytically. That s just who I am.

I never had a technical education, but I could still see where tools in the workplace were falling short. Sometimes I could simplify things, automate parts of the work in Excel, and make processes clearer.

Then AI came along, and I started experimenting with it.