Hello Product Hunt community! I ve spent over a decade in enterprise architecture and finally decided to solve the biggest workflow headache I faced: the proposal process. I am single-handedly building RiverProposal to change how teams write and review their bids. Thrilled to officially join the conversation here and connect with other B2B SaaS builders!
Hey PH fam! I am Shabnam, I am a Growth Marketer for SaaS and tech startups Drop your LinkedIn Profiles in Comments and I would love to connect with you, Here s mine - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ssha...
I decided to become a hunter to give visibility to builders who can't pay for it.
If you think about it, Product Hunt is a platform where you trade time and feedback for visibility and feedback. And that's huuuuge for people who can't buy visibility but can invest their time.
I was in this case when I built Mailwarm (YC S20). Product Hunt helped us validate and find new customers. We went from $3K MRR to $8K MRR during launch week. That's when I understood how big PH can be for founders with no marketing budget.
Recently I started a builder community focused on Moroccans. I understood that building is not a problem anymore. The bottleneck is go-to-market.
I m from Pernambuco, Brazil, from a humble family. My parents did not finish elementary school, and my life was never really easy. A hard part of my story is that my father had problems with alcohol, and my family went through very difficult moments because of that. These things still hurt me a lot when I remember them.
I've spent the last 15+ years at the frontier of AI / NLP / ML and large-scale data systems. Previously I built Intelligeni, an enterprise AIOps platform for autonomous operations.
Now I'm Chief Agent @ Zijus we're building the world's first full-stack promptcode agentic platform, where intent becomes executable software. Our first product from it is Zlide.io.
It took me over ten years selling other people s software before I decided to start writing mine. The behaviors translate far less easily than I thought I know how to make a sale, but not how to get someone to voluntarily open your application for the eleventh time.
In making a similar transition from sales or operations to software development, what did you have to unlearn first?
