Hi everyone!

We ve just pushed a major update to Tutorials-Shop, focused entirely on improving learning quality, global accessibility, and the overall user experience.

From listening to different people and their journeys, I ve realised that before they built their first profitable product, many of them failed multiple times.

Similar stories were shared by @marclou , @levelsio or @iuliia_sh to name a few.

Hey Makers,

I recently left my project management job at a big company to follow my dream of becoming a solo developer and maker. I m still new to this community, but it already feels like home.

So far, I ve been building projects mostly around AI and Education:

• BookChunk: an AI tool that summarizes, quizzes, and chats with PDF books (still refining summary quality and reducing costs).

• Xformly: turns Excel sheets into online forms (currently struggling with large file handling).

• MiniDocuments: my latest launch - short, step-by-step tech PDF tutorials for fast learning.

• Now I m working on my next idea - AI-generated tutorials - and honestly, it s full of challenges.

On Twitter, I often come across impulsive builders. They get an idea, build it quickly, and then feel disappointed when nothing sells.

(Just because a creator has identified a problem in himself, it doesn t mean there s a big enough sample experiencing it.)

A few days ago, we discussed how difficult it was for me, for example, to create my first product.

In many cases, people struggle with money. But I believe that with the mass adoption of AI, many things can now be done at a relatively low cost.

When we launched Flexprice, I thought Product Hunt success was about chasing upvotes.

I was wrong.

It s really about momentum, community, and showing up prepared.

Here are a few lessons we learned the hard way but I hope they save someone a few gray hairs before their launch day: