Artur Kuznetsov

Everyone tells founders to get a mentor, so I tried properly. I used one of the mentor-matching platforms, had one useful call and then the person stopped replying. That was not a one-off. A lot of people there never reply, and of the ones who do, some profiles look fake and others are mainly there to sell you their agency.

Reaching out directly was not much better. Two advisors cancelled the intro call once they heard we are bootstrapped rather than venture funded, because their real service costs tens of thousands, not hundreds. Another sells a course for $10K, advertises large growth, but in reality there is no guarantee.

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.

I've watched this happen at least a dozen times now with teams we talk to: customers start asking for analytics, the team says "how hard can charts be," and 2 quarters later they've shipped a worse version of a BI tool and their actual roadmap is on fire.

The problem is that customer-facing analytics looks like one feature but it's actually 5 products stacked on top of each other:

• A query layer against production data

• Charting that doesn't look terrible

• Permissions and multi-tenant isolation (get this wrong once and you're writing a security disclosure)

• Performance that holds up when a customer asks for 2 years of data

• And now, because every customer expects it, an AI analyst that actually gets answers right