I ve seen a lot of makers (myself included) start building with one idea, then pivot completely after talking to users.

I launched Waivify a simple digital waiver tool because I noticed yoga instructors and personal trainers still using paper or clunky PDFs for liability waivers. It started as a weekend build. Now it s used by solo business owners to simplify their client onboarding.

But along the way, I realized I wasn t just solving waivers I was helping service pros feel more legit and reduce admin anxiety.

So I m curious:

I know people who never miss an email, even on a Saturday night.

And I know others who won t even open their inbox until Monday morning no matter what.

Do you have any habits or hobbies that keep you from being constantly immersed in work?

Ideally, something that helps you unplug from the internet.

I'm amazed by the number of products that launch on PH every day. I think it would be cool to know what inspired you to build your product.

For me, I desperately was trying to solve my own problems and frustrations. For nearly 20 years that I'm building online communities, I realised that our competition didn't solve for the two most basic problems:

1. Organic Growth

2. User Retention

I believe every project should have a website to showcase its offering, not to mention for SEO purposes. Whether SEO will still be relevant due to AI is another discussion.

Do you have any favourite websites that are both functional and beautifully designed?

Hey Product Hunt, I'm the founder and CEO of @Clueso, a tool to create stunning product videos in minutes with AI. I wanted to share how we refined our process of making sure we ship big software moves on time.

Too many times as a company, we ve found ourselves making bold promises both to customers and to ourselves internally and then scrambling to meet them.

Things can get chaotic, so many moving pieces and zero time to breathe.

I m curious: what s the one tool or automation trick you ve found that really cuts down your workload?

Bonus points if it s easy to set up and doesn t break the bank.

I can safely say that working remotely brings a special kind of challenge.

It sounds ideal until no one knows what the others are doing and progress feels... fuzzy.

I ve always wondered how different cultures, companies, or individuals approach financial transparency in business. Some stay silent, others overshare.

Here are some trends I ve noticed:

For me - it's the community of makers. I've always enjoyed the 0->1 journeys of building product and businesses. I believe this is the tribe where I can contribute the most.

What's your reason to come back to PH and participate?

As an indie app developer who bootstraps projects, sometimes I can't help but think that one day when savings are gone, I must find a way to sustain my digital business, and perhaps I should run it on donations. I'm working at Nomadful, a digital health company with a simple mission: to provide anyone holding a phone with free, high-quality mental health services. As of today, my mobile app has accompanied over a thousand people through their unique journeys with mental health.

Have you ever ran a business on donations? What have you done to support those who run on donations?

A few days ago, I asked several people for a video testimonial.

Many of them:

were shy about appearing on camera

All of you who are building a personal brand, I guess, keeping up with the onslaught of notifications is not the easiest thing to do. I personally open some notifications after a month (like today on Bluesky, Substack and Twitter), not to mention that I reply to some messages after months. It helps me keep my sanity. But it took me almost 4 hours to handle these today.

On the other hand, I manage ProductHunt and LinkedIn quite regularly.

Yes, I'm kind of referring to the Soham Parekh story that's now taking the internet by storm.

TL;DR: He worked on several startups at the same time, had the best interview results, but according to his employers, he never delivered results. (You can comprehend it from these tweets, e.g. 1, 2)

MIT just dropped a fascinating (and slightly scary) study.

They had participants write SAT-style essays using:

1. ChatGPT

2. Google

3. Just their brains

What happened?

Hey PH fam!

Seriously is anyone else drowning in frameworks, libraries, plugins, microservices, and AI-powered everything?

I want to hear from my fellow founders who are boostrapping their ventures. In a world where raising funds, burning cash, chasing exits get all the limelight; bootstrapped founders rarely get attention.

I've personally known several founders who are happily running their $20 - $100K MRR businesses either as solo founders or with a small team and highly profitable.

I'm curious about how you all approach learning on YouTube. Do you regularly watch tutorials, courses, or educational content for skill building?

I'd love to hear about your biggest frustrations and any solutions you've discovered!

I'm asking because I'm exploring ways to make YouTube learning more effective and would love to hear the community's experiences and insights!

I love reviewing. My all time favorite site for reviews is probably Metacritic, but of course Yelp, Google Maps reviews, rottentomatoes, and opencritic are great; a lot of hype for Letterboxd lately but it's kinda not been to my taste. Any other recommendations of the best sites out there for reviewing stuff?

I love @Cursor. It's enabled me to build (vibe code) so many web apps, sites, extensions, and little things quickly that 1. bring me joy and 2. help me with work or realize personal projects.
However... I'm seeing a TON of movement around @Claude by Anthropic's Claude Code. I haven't personally tried it but it's apparently insane (and can also be expensive?)
I'm curious. Should I switch? What are you currently using? Or do they both have their own use case. I right now like cursor because I can build directly in a GitHub repo or locally and it helps me learn my way around an IDE.
Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts!