Greetings Product Hunters! I m the #1 verified Product Hunter. One of the site's most consistent and prolific OG power-users since 2014, I have supported and studied Makers with 285,000+ upvotes, and learned one thing most founders discover too late: a launch is not a lucky leaderboard sprint, it is a positioning test in public.
I advise founders, teams, and operators on Product Hunt launch strategy across pre-launch narrative, hunter/maker setup, launch copy, comment strategy, audience activation, mid-launch trajectory adjustments, and post-launch analysis.
I'm Boran, solo indie dev. I built an iPhone app called NiCam and I'm launching on Product Hunt in the next couple weeks.
The short story: my girlfriend kept saying she wanted one of those old digital cameras with the tiny screen on the back. I didn't really get it. Then on her birthday, her best friend showed up with a scratched iPhone 6 she'd dug out of a drawer. The whole night people kept passing it around taking photos with it. Bad sensor, slow shutter, weird colors. And every single person at that table was losing it over the pictures.
Hi everyone, I'm relatively new here. A few weeks ago I went through a complicated family situation, and I had no one to talk to about it. But I felt like I needed to get it off my chest. So I wrote a very intimate letter, saying all the things I didn't dare say out loud, and it helped me a lot. It was therapeutic, I'd say.
A couple of days later, once the storm had calmed down, an idea came to me. The thing is, I've been a web developer for about 3 years now, and I thought about creating a space kind of like a social network or blog where people could vent without pressure, without social noise, none of that. Just like a daily journal.
I analyzed hundreds of App Store rejections. The vibe coding era has made the problem dramatically worse. I want to share something that's been genuinely painful to watch as someone who's spent months deep in App Store compliance data and as someone who has had past issues with compliance for vibe coded projects.
Vibe coding has changed everything about how fast you can build. Lovable hit $100M ARR in 8 months. Replit scaled from $2.8M to $150M ARR in under a year. 25% of Y Combinator's Winter 2025 cohort had codebases that were 95% AI-generated. The tools are incredible and the speed is real.
But the rejection rate hasn't changed. It's actually gotten worse.
50% of apps are rejected on first submission. 40% of all apps get rejected at least once.
Let s talk about a major pain point we all face subscription fatigue.
Think about the minor, simple apps you use every single day just to keep your lifestyle or daily routine organized. Let s say you rely on 5 basic tools.
Even if we unrealistically assume they only cost $5/month each, that s $25/month. But let's be honest in 2026, you can barely find any decent app for $5. Most cost at least $10, $20, or more.
Almost a year ago, I made an online wiki where a wide range of topics in different states of reality (e.g real, fiction, hybrid, hypotheses, fanmade, etc.) coexist, and anyone can edit it!
