I have to admit I m a tragedy when it comes to being first at trying new technology or so which means I ve fallen for more scams and shady situations than I d like to count.

(At least I can warn my friends and family before they make the same mistakes, so that's the only advantage.)

I decided to share some best practices I regret not doing sooner:

Ten years ago, if a Facebook post didn t receive enough reactions, I would delete it immediately.

Yep, 18-year-old Nika was terrified that people would notice her failure. Reality check: when a post flops, almost nobody sees it anyway. The only person who actually suffers from the low engagement is the original poster.

AI is quietly eating the boring parts of startups, and that s where the real value is.

Most people talk about AI in the context of flashy features: code generation, image tools, marketing copy. But the real impact might be happening in the background.

Yesterday, @zaczuo shared an idea about delivering packages from space. To me, that seems quite sci-fi and financially demanding to actually pull off. Today, I m reading that Bezos predicts millions of people could be living in space by 2050.

How realistic is this scenario, given that the last time we set foot on the Moon was more than 50 years ago? (And above all, I feel like we still can t solve basic problems on Earth, let alone expand into space.)

This is more of a feedback for marketers who are trying to establish contact with bigger influencers.

Thanks to my experience from "both sides", I noticed certain patterns that could work better and satisfaction would be on both sides. :)

Some companies are love brands for me, and I d like to support them. Others I see growing, and I d love to ride the wave. :D

Do you have any companies you d like to invest in, but that don t have a public offering yet? Which ones?

What s the most ridiculous thing you ve blown startup money on?

Everyone has that regret: fancy office chair, logo redesign, too many SaaS subscriptions. What was yours?

Exactly one week from now, I ll be co-organising a tech event (a hackathon), and I m realising how much work it actually takes. I ve been to many conferences myself to gather inspiration, but I still can t come close to what I ve experienced as an attendee. Maybe that s also because we re organising it as just a 3-person team.

If you ve been to hackathons or other tech events before, what made a positive impression on you?

It's a rule that when one aspect of life is going well, the others are somehow failing.

At the moment, things couldn't be better on the work front:

• I have a great team, and the company is doing well.

• I'm praised for the results I deliver and the progress I'm making.

• My networks are growing, and there's more and more interest in my sponsorships.

• More people want to work together.

• And I'm co-organising 2 offline events.

Every new version is the FINAL one until the next investor meeting.

Do you keep one master deck and tweak it, or do you end up building a whole new one each time?

How many pitch decks have you created so far? 

I think most of us have been there. You keep building, shipping features, and it feels like nobody is paying attention.

Some days it really feels like shouting into the void when traction is slow.

For me, I try to remind myself why I started in the first place.

We talk a lot about big launches, flashy features, and growth hacks. But sometimes it s the small, unglamorous decisions that really move the needle:

• Saying no to a feature everyone asked for but didn t fit the core vision

• Spending an extra week on onboarding copy instead of shipping something new

• Choosing boring-but-reliable tech over shiny frameworks

For me, those unsexy calls often end up being the ones that shape the product long-term.

Product Hunt was created specifically to showcase what you do. But let s face it, with the progress of AI, there are more and more products and you don t have time to test them all (respect to @gabe , who does this job brilliantly).

I noticed that as my following grew throughout social media, more people contacted me wanting to test products. Of course, I don t have room for everyone, and what s even more shocking is that to get to me, they want to compensate me for testing.

We built @Vidopix AI Video Intelligence with a simple but bold question in mind: what would happen if videos could tell you what your audience really feels before you publish them?

Instead of guessing whether your ad s hook works, if viewers will drop off mid-way, or which emotions it sparks Vidopix listens to your videos and gives instant, AI-powered insights.

One of the reasons we built Escape Velocity AI is that so much of what consultants do is repeatable logic: business plans, market sizing, cost diagnostics. But when you re early-stage, you don t really have the budget to bring in a McKinsey team.

So I m curious: if you could borrow just one piece of consulting-style thinking to make your life easier right now, what would it be?

• Clearer positioning?

• Structuring a business plan?

• Benchmarking financials?

• Or maybe just someone to challenge assumptions?

Creating content in 2025 is super typical. Being a content creator as a founder isn t optional anymore, it s almost a requirement if you want to grow your business and brand. But you have to be consistent. And some people prepare content in advance or post in the moment.

I see both styles all the time.

The hardest part of building Finden wasn t what we expected everyone talks about building data pipelines. I didn't think building one was that hard. But building a pipeline that can actually handle messy, complex, high-volume data, while still delivering answers, that was brutal!

When we took @Finden from idea to product, this was our biggest surprise. Scaling pipelines wasn t just an engineering problem, it became the problem.

Every day, I notice fewer people sharing their projects here.

A couple of months ago, build in public felt unstoppable: everyone was posting updates, numbers, roadmaps. Now? The hype seems to be fading or maybe makers are just shipping quietly.

At least for me, when I buy something, I consider:

1. price in relation to time, how long the product will serve me

2. investment whether buying the product will generate money for me

3. benefit solving a problem, saving time, fulfilling a need

Every 1st of the month, I have a little ritual: I open hunted.space and check past years launches for that month.

Looking at September 2024, one thing stood out: it was incredibly strong.