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Nika•

18h ago

What was your initial motivation for starting a business?

People s motivations for wanting something of their own vary quite a lot.

So far, though, I ve most often heard these three answers:

  • To make a lot of money.

  • To work really hard until 30 so I can relax later in life.

  • Time and location freedom.

Rankfenderp/rankfenderImed Radhouani•

1d ago

What's a tool you discovered through Product Hunt that you now use every day?

I'll start.

Supabase. Found it here three years ago. Thought it was just another backend. Now I can't imagine building without it.

Here's what it does for us at Rankfender:

Auth that doesn't make you crazy. We have users across 120+ countries. Supabase handles sign-ups, logins, password resets, magic links, OAuth with Google and GitHub. It just works. We didn't have to build any of it.

I admit: I'll never have a 235-day streak on here, but I’m okay with it. You?

I started hanging out here regularly about a year ago, and I quickly had to accept one truth: I'm never going to hit a streak longer than 5 days.

Why? Because, honestly, I like logging off on the weekend.

Obviously, I love the products and the people here.

Nika•

2d ago

Is it more difficult to transform from a marketer to a programmer or from a programmer → a marketer?

I formally studied marketing as a university program (5 years), and due to inspiration on social networks, it feels completely natural to do it, even easy to learn (because most of the time you just guess what might work for you).

BUT

How many calls do you do per day?

As founders, calls are part of our daily life. Brainstorming, quick updates, random discussions with the team and there s always value in those moments. But most of the time, all that value just disappears after the call.
By connecting Prodshort to your calendar, it automatically joins your calls and turns them into ready-to-post content.

If you're a founder and want to create content, I'm doing short discussion calls. Let's connect !!

Wasil Abdal•

3d ago

What's one tool you wish you had discovered earlier as a maker?

We all have that one tool that quietly changed how we build, ship, or market something we found way later than we should have. For me, it was a simple log monitoring tool that saved hours of debugging at 2 am.

What's yours? Could be for design, code, analytics, user research, or even project management.

Trying to discover some hidden gems the community actually uses (not just the popular ones).

Nika•

3d ago

How do you stay productive during days packed with work calls?

This is probably a shared problem for a lot of people right now.

It s Monday (but honestly, it happens on other days too) many people try to sync up, you end up with endless calls scattered throughout the day, and:

TwelveLabsp/twelvelabsfmerian•

3d ago

Launching TwelveLabs on Product Hunt again - Lessons learned

TwelveLabs just introduced Pegasus 1.5, their most significant leap in generative video AI, transforming video into a queryable, structured data asset.

They're launching today on Product Hunt.

Nika•

3d ago

Does vibe coding count as building software?

Not gonna lie.

A topic like this was outlined on X, and many people were discussing it.

Nika•

3d ago

What kind of software product is the most in demand? Web app, smartphone app, extensions?

For years, I ve been hearing that we re a mobile-first (or even mobile-only) society.

Smartphones are portable. We spend the most time on them.
Distribution via App Store / Play Store is huge.

So logically You should build for mobile, right?

Nwobodo Ebube•

6d ago

Struggling to find people building hardware products — where are they hiding?

Hey everyone,

I m currently building a platform focused on helping people turn hardware ideas into actual working prototypes (connecting them with engineers, fabricators, etc).

But I ve hit a wall I didn t expect.

I m finding it surprisingly hard to locate people who are actively trying to build physical products. Not people interested in hardware, but people who are actually in the process and need help.

Nika•

6d ago

Since the rise of AI, do you feel that your job is at risk? And what about certain professions?

When AI entered the public stage in 2023, I was working as a copywriter. One client gave me a condition:

either I write more articles using AI for the same price
or I lower my rate per article

That was when I realised this job was starting to change significantly. (And I ended up.)

p/clustrTim•

6d ago

Forbes 30U30 šŸ†

Hi Gang! Excited to announce that @arthur_romanov and I got nominated for our local Forbes 30U30 award - could you kindly support us by visiting the link below and smashing that button (under profile pic) to make sure we get the top vote Huge thank you for all your help over the years

https://30-under-30.forbes.ru/20...

Nika•

7d ago

Will we work for AI or will AI work for us?

  1. Y Combinator startup will pay humans to help AI agents when they get stuck. (This is what I read today.)

  2. At the same time, I see how Indian employees in production have cameras on their heads, and the AI learns from their movements (practically filming their firing process).

  3. In addition, there was already a site where AI agents hired human actions for stablecoins.

  • First, AI worked for us.

  • Now we are starting to work for AI.

  • And eventually, will AI work (without us)?

I don t want to portray a Terminator scenario where people will have to unite against AI, but what future awaits us in terms of cooperation/non-cooperation with AI?

Aleksandar Blazhev•

7d ago

Does having a mentor actually matter in business and startups?

Every top athlete has one (Lebron James, Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams). And it turns out, so do most of the biggest names in tech.

Steve Jobs mentored Mark Zuckerberg in the early days of Facebook. Eric Schmidt mentored Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google and later credited that relationship as one of the key reasons Google scaled the way it did. Bill Campbell, known as "the Coach of Silicon Valley," mentored Jobs, Schmidt, Jeff Bezos, and dozens of other founders throughout his career.

Product Huntp/producthuntAaron O'Leary•

8d ago

🚨 Vercel and Product Hunt are teaming up for a special launch day

We re teaming up with @Vercel for a special launch day on Product Hunt.

If you re building on Vercel, schedule your launch for midnight PT on April 17 and tag it under 'Vercel Day' to be included in a dedicated leaderboard for the day.

Nika•

8d ago

Why did you lose your Product Hunt streak and what was your record?

@charlie_hb started quite an interesting thread where he outlined on which days people lose their streaks the most often.

He showed some stats regarding days in a week, but I am still lacking the reasons.

The most common ones I have heard were:

Guess what day most people lose their streak!

Hey ProductHunt!

Trophy is now powering over 24M streaks which is kind of crazy to think about considering we only launched 1.0 here in January this year.
One of the parts I find most interesting about building horizontal infrastructure is that as you scale and power more and more products you get to see insights that most teams building in isolation will only see a part of, and you can use those insights to make the the infrastructure better for everyone.
For example, because we power streaks for so many users, Trophy can tell that 25% of all streaks are lost on a Friday, closely followed by Saturday (19%) and then Wednesday (18%).

Nika•

2d ago

Build your brand before your product, or launch first and reveal yourself later?

  1. I've always been on the personal brand side. More and more founders are building it now (sometimes even before the product is ready while it's still in development, before seed fundraising). The CEO builds their position so the product sells more easily at the official launch.

  2. But I have experience with people who built the product, scaled it, and only then did we discover who was behind it.

Honestly, with the first approach, I'd be concerned that people invest more in me as a person than in the product. People would idealise the founder and overlook the product's flaws (which could hurt development and constructive feedback).

+ I noticed the most common mistake that many people who started building a personal brand first, connected their product to their personal accounts (emails, social media, etc.) and started having a problem selling these things, because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles.

Product Huntp/producthuntAaron O'Leary•

9d ago

šŸ—£ļø Today's leaderboard is powered by voice

@Wispr Flow launched on Product Hunt back in 2024. Since then it has become one of those tools that quietly sticks. It's the AI dictation tool a bunch of us here use day to day (yes, there are still a few people committed to typing everything out). It works anywhere on your Mac or PC, so you can just talk and have clean text land wherever your cursor is.

For the next three days, it is showing up on the leaderboard in a different way. From April 14 to 16, you can upvote and comment on Product Hunt using Wispr Flow directly. If you use dictation, those upvotes and comments will carry a bit more weight. Try it out by clicking the Wispr Flow unit on the Leaderboard and telling it to upvote a product name