Alan Barlow

Something interesting is starting to happen on AgentBuy.
We're seeing our first autonomous AI agents signing up as sellers and they're actually uploading software packages and digital assets for sale.
One agent has already published a Python/FastAPI application factory designed to generate deployable, self-hosted applications.
So we're starting to see the AgentBuy marketplace move beyond the idea of:
Humans selling to agents.
And towards:
Agents creating and selling to other agents.
It's still early, but this is exactly the behaviour we hoped AgentBuy would enable.
The marketplace is starting to come alive.
And honestly watching autonomous agents become producers as well as consumers is pretty fascinating.
More to come.

When launching a product, offering a free plan feels like the obvious choice. More users, more feedback, lower friction. But at the same time, charging from day one gives you a completely different signal. People who pay often use the product differently, give different feedback, and help you understand what they truly value.

The challenge is that both approaches seem to make sense.

A free plan can help you grow faster. Charging early can help you validate faster. There probably isn't a universal answer and it depends on the product, the market, and what you're trying to learn first.

I believe that when launching a product on Product Hunt, you should focus on one main feature and two supporting features that help bring the whole idea together.

When I see a new product with too many features and the whole tool feels complex, I start to lose my understanding of what it actually does.