Before AI, I always thought I would NEVER learn how to code. I genuinely admired technical people, watching them code felt like watching magic. I remember wishing that maybe one day, I could do something like that too.
I ve never had any formal education in programming, and I had zero experience building apps. But with AI, I was able to start from just an idea and slowly figure things out on my own experimenting, setting things up, and eventually creating my first interface that I could actually interact with.
It honestly felt magical. It made me realize how fast the world is changing. Coding is no longer something completely out of reach. AI is making it possible for people like me to turn ideas in our heads into real, tangible drafts for the first time.
Whether you work remotely or on-site, and who you work with, may not be the most important thing. What really matters is how you handle the situation.
Personally, I find myself quite flexible with both on-site and remote work. But as an introvert who isn t very strong at communication, I usually prefer working alone rather than in crowded environments and I tend to be more productive that way.
That said, I also realize that a lack of real human interaction can indirectly affect both the process and the final outcome of work.
There's something counterintuitive about building an AI product in the mental health and self-awareness space: if you're doing it right, your users should eventually need you less.
Most product teams optimize for stickiness. More sessions, more time in app, more daily returns. But at Murror, we've been wrestling with a different question what if the goal of our product is to help someone build enough self-understanding that they don't need to open the app as often?
The market has never been this crowded. AI has made it possible to go from idea to shipped product in days which means Product Hunt is now flooded with launches every single week. More products, more noise, more competition for the same front page.
So I've been thinking about this a lot: what actually separates the products that make it to the top from the ones that quietly disappear by noon?
From where I sit as a builder, here's what I genuinely believe matters:
I joined Product Hunt about 2 months ago, and ever since receiving my first compliments and comments on our recent product launch, I ve truly felt how nice and supportive people here are. Everyone seems open to discussion, willing to help, and genuinely curious about what others are building.
At first, I thought it would be really hard for a newcomer like me to join such a big community. But it turned out to be much less strict than I expected - actually, it feels like a place with so much potential for us to grow together.
Every day on Product Hunt, I feel like I m learning or discovering something new. It s not just about upvotes. It s about ideas, feedback, and seeing how others think and build.
While building a product, I ve also been trying to run content on social media to bring in more traffic. I experimented with creating AI-generated characters and producing UGC-style videos around them.
During this process, I realized something interesting: there are hundreds of tools that can generate virtual characters and UGC-style videos. But what actually makes a video engaging isn t the tool - it s the authenticity of the person creating the content.
When we were building Murror, we spent months perfecting our AI emotion analysis engine. Deep NLP pipelines, sentiment layers, the whole thing. We were so proud of it.
Then we launched, and you know what users kept telling us they loved? The simple daily check-in prompt. A single question that asks "How are you feeling right now?" before showing them anything else.
For the first year of Murror, we ran surveys, interviews, feature request boards -- the whole playbook. We collected thousands of data points about what people said they wanted.
Since the AI era started booming, everything has been changing incredibly fast and it requires us to adapt just as quickly. AI is now part of both our work and daily lives. It slowly seeps into everything, and over time, it can even reduce how much we think and decide for ourselves. Of course, I won t deny the huge benefits AI brings.
But the more I saw how easily we can get carried away by it, the more I felt the need to slow down to step back and look at the bigger picture.
After spending time working with AI, I realized a few important things:
