Whenever I click through to the social media profiles of the makers in the product hunt community, I find that they are quite versatile and are involved in things other than just business.
What other skills do you have besides your work skills?
The world has changed rapidly over the past two decades with the internet, new technologies and the accelerated transfer of information.
Anyone not actively working online or in IT may have trouble keeping up with these "tech trends." This is especially true for older generations who did not have the opportunity to grow up with computers as it is today.
Today, traditional engineering interviews often revolve around DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms). And while DSA tests analytical rigor, it also wires thinking into strict, logical frames.
Creativity lives outside those frames. Problem-solving and creating experiences are two entirely different games. And sometimes, forcing a purely analytical mindset can quietly erode creative instincts the very instincts vibe coders thrive on.
Which raises a bigger question:
Is the future of technology moving into the hands of more imaginative, creative builders rather than traditional analytical problem-solvers?
Personally, I was laid off a year ago and currently bottoming out on savings. Every day is not guaranteed, quite literally, at this point. Yet, I keep my head down and continue building out a product relentlessly that I, quite frankly, have no idea how it will turn out. Many of us took this leap of faith and are under strenuous circumstances, especially in the current market. If you're in similar positions, just know that everything will work out! Fortune favors the bold. We're in this together! I would love to hear your stories.
I saw an article on TechCrunch discussing Cluely (created by Chungin Roy Lee and Neel Shanmugam).
TL;DR: The AI tool, originally developed to cheat on software engineering interviews, now helps users cheat on exams, sales calls, and job interviews through a hidden in-browser window. And now has raised $5+ million.
I'm looking for testers and early adopters! The app is free for my test group, I just request that you share any feedback with me while you use it.
Cook More is an app for managing home cooking. You're able to save recipes from social media and websites via sharing/links or photos of physical cookbooks and manage a shopping list. It supports meal planning by allowing you to pin recipes to the top of the list that you plan to make.
I host most my front end site using cloudfront + s3. I was hunting for a good analytics tool for this setup. I don't want to use cookies. I did my own research and I am aware that:
S3Stats is a option, but 10$/mo is too much for me.
Matomo self hosting is free but needs a server ($10+ for aws instance and also breaks my serverless idea.)
I actually start building my own dashboard now and wondering if there are others need it. If yes, plan to do a build-in-public to gather good ideas on that to make it useful.
I just started solo dev last year and have been trying to keep all early prototype projects low budget. I personally build in a serverless way on @AWS and pay only for what I use (<$1 per month). I'm curious what do you all use for low-budget development? Maybe I can find even cheaper build stack from you guys lol :)
How much user testing was involved in your product in the past 3 months?
Or during/before your last big release? How many users and from where?
Nearly ~50 designers have told me of how little they talk to users, sometimes as little as every 3-6 months! We all strive for user-centred design, but outside of aspirations, how many users and what kind of users did any clicking/tapping for you?
I'm currently exploring a project idea : create an ultra-simple tool for launching open source LLM models locally, without the hassle, and I'd like to get your feedback.
The current problem:
I'm not a dev or into IT or anything, but I've become fascinated by the subject of local LLMs , but running an LLM model on your own PC can be a real pain in the ass :
I m just getting started on my SaaS journey and, like many beginners, I m facing the classic challenge choosing the right idea to work on.
I feel like I might be overthinking it. On one hand, I just need to dive in and build something to gain experience. But at the same time, I want to ensure I m working on a valuable idea with real potential.
One of the challenges about building apps that can work offline is syncing data between devices, servers, etc. While there are entire books written about the topics of distributed systems like this, I'll share how it works in Cook More.
Cook More is a personal digital cookbook. You can sync your grocery list and recipes with anyone else running the app, this way you can share all your recipes instantly within the app. You don't even need to have an account. This all happens over bluetooth. While I think that's a really cool feature, I really designed the sharing so that partners can have a shared grocery list without compromising their data. To that end, everything must sync seamlessly, additions, deletions, and modifications. Cook More has live-sync and a deferred-sync built in.
I miss Mint. And when I say that, I mean that I miss the old Mint before they got acquired by Intuit and started selling my data to anyone who would buy it. I want more than what my bank offers but this space seems surprisingly quiet unless I am hiding under a rock.
We all have apps that we have been using for quite sometime. It's not easy to replace tools that we are familiar with, and are so used to that moving on to something that claims to be more efficient or powerful might end up being counter-productive. But, looking back, I realized that I ended up riding the AI wave and no longer use apps that used to be 'always-on' for me. From @Grammarly I switched to @ChatGPT by OpenAI, from MS Word/Google Docs I switched to @Notion (as it has AI features), and from @Adobe Photoshop I switched to @RunwayML (before Adobe added AI features). I am sure you all must have similar experiences, and I'd love to know them.
I'm an app developer focusing on offline apps (I know). I know there's so much power in SaaS and all these AI features, but I think sometimes we can forget that our devices are basically supercomputers and they can a LOT by themselves.
