Advin Jadis

I d love to share a few things I figured out while preparing our Product Hunt launch - and I'd love for experienced makers and hunters to add their own advice.

Here s what I learned:

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If possible, include real people even briefly. Seeing the makers behind a product can create more trust and connection.

I asked an AI assistant to review a repo before shipping it.

It came back with a clean report, a confident tone, and a long list of passes. Then I checked one of the lines it cited.

The line said something else. The mistake itself didn't bother me that much. What bothered me was that there was no shape in the output for "I don't know."

Everything was either a problem or a pass. And the passes were doing a lot of unearned work.

Every side project I build hits the same wall. The code works, the idea is fine, and then the interface makes it look unfinished. No designer, no budget for one.

So I'm curious how other solo builders actually handle this:

• What's your design process when there's no designer? Component libraries, copying layouts you like, AI tools, something else?

• How do you find out the UX is bad in the first place? I can tell when something feels off, but I can't articulate why so I end up changing colors instead of fixing the real problem.

Curious what your setup looks like.