Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. Not everyone has a knack for marketing, content creation, community building, or other techniques. When it comes to marketing, what have you found to be the best tools and strategies to market your product when it's not your strength?
one thing we learned launching openowl: engaging on reddit, twitter, HN, product hunt, linkedin all at once is exhausting. especially as a solo founder.
so we built a system for it and just open-sourced the whole thing.
it's a claude code template with platform-specific guides and skills for each platform. you clone the repo, fill in your product details, and run /engage-reddit or /engage-twitter or
/engage-all and it finds relevant posts, drafts replies in the right tone for each platform, and you review before posting.
TwelveLabs just introduced Pegasus 1.5, their most significant leap in generative video AI, transforming video into a queryable, structured data asset.
YC-backed @Mintlify (YC W22) just announced a $45M Series B round, bringing their total funding to $67M, to "accelerate [their] mission of building the knowledge infrastructure for AI."
Read in their blog announcement:
Mintlify now powers documentation for over 20,000 companies, with content reaching more than 100 million people every year. This round accelerates our mission to become the knowledge layer that makes products understandable, usable and discoverable by AI agents.
I'm Mark, solo dev and co-founder of Moss Piglet a privacy-first public benefit company.
Habit tracking is personal. Your goals, your struggles, your progress that's some of the most intimate data you can generate about yourself. So why does every habit tracker out there store it in plaintext on their servers?
Metamorphic is a zero-knowledge encrypted habit tracker. Your data is encrypted in your browser before it ever leaves your device. The server never sees your habits, your goals, or your progress. Not even we can read it.
Every day, after launching, makers are contacted on LinkedIn and X by people offering to sell votes. As the Product Hunt team, we are very much aware of this and really hate it. We have systems in place to neutralize this type of gaming. Every vote counts for a different number of points on Product Hunt. A couple examples:
An account with a recently created gmail address and no history of quality contributions on Product Hunt: this vote will count for 0 points. Yes, this might be a well intentioned user, but we take a conservative approach to protect the community. If the account has a company email or applies for verification on Product Hunt, that's a different story.
An account with a company email address linked to a legitimate LinkedIn account with a history of meaningful contributions on Product Hunt: this vote carries significant weight.
A couple questions for the community:
Are there specific accounts on Product Hunt that you suspect participate in vote selling? You can reply here or email report@producthunt.co
What would you want to see us do differently here?
