Elena Oprea

Elena Oprea

Co-founder and CEO at Selftalk
199 points

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Nika

11mo ago

Why are there so few women in founder roles or in tech overall?

I still can't help but notice that there are not many female tech founders.

However, I ve observed that in some regions, such as India, more women are actively involved in tech.

Similarly, in the Nordic countries of Europe, women seem to have greater exposure to occupations that were traditionally perceived as "masculine."

Abhishek Dutta

12mo ago

What is the BEST advice you can give to someone who's LAUNCHING soon?

this will be very helpful folks for first-time launchers, looking forward to the most wholesome thread here.
louis sankey

1yr ago

An app that challenges you to finish tasks faster, anyone?

The idea is that when you're trying to meet your estimates, you stay more focused. So... I made an app that let's you make one click estimates. Anyone want to try?
Austin Armstrong

12mo ago

Syllaby for the AI for Audio Golden Kitty Award

We are thrilled to share that our SaaS has been nominated for the prestigious Product Hunt Golden Kitty Award in various categories. This recognition means the world to us! I humbly ask for your support to help us clinch the top spot. If you have ever found value in my content, your vote would make a significant difference. Please follow these simple steps to cast your vote for Syllaby: 1. Click the link: Golden Kitty Awards - AI for Audio: https://www.producthunt.com/gold... 2. Sign up or sign in to your Product Hunt account. 3. Click the upvote arrow button next to Syllaby. Your support could open up amazing opportunities for us. Thank you so much for your help!
Elena Oprea

12mo ago

What was the lowest point in your journey of building the product?

Mine was in December 2023, when: - I had been struggling to find a new CTO for a few months after the previous CTO decided to move to a different industry. - We had just canceled a $100K investment deal and moved from Silicon Valley back to our home country, Moldova, to bootstrap the company. - My co-founder faced serious health challenges, and morale was very low. We recovered by March 2024 we found the best CTO ever, secured another investor with smart money, and pivoted to a more scalable business model. What a time!

How to Stay Resilient and Creative While Building a Startup Webinar

Hey there, I was talking with my co-founder, Elena Oprea, the other day and we wanted to give to the community here on Product Hunt. So, we created a webinar on 10 practices we use at Selftalk, our mental health startup, to build more resilience and stay creative. Some of them are: silent retreats; working through transgenerational trauma; water fasts; sadhu board for pain resilience; writing a book; ontology trainings like Landmark; dark retreats, contemplation, and journaling etc. The event is this Friday - 31th of January Join us, register here - https://lu.ma/b3ric9lh
Elena Oprea

1yr ago

Can you help with my startup USP?

At Selftalk, we have built an app for self-therapy and self-coaching. We collaborate with top psychologists to document their protocols, simplify them and upload them on our platform where users can apply them independently to address their challenges. We launched the app with a few self-therapy and self-coaching programs that we call "journeys" and currently we are working on adding more. I find it challenging to explain our value proposition in few words. Would you be willing to test and help me create a few simple variations of USP?
Tina Armasu

1yr ago

What is the best weekly hybrid work arrangement that works for you?

(for example 2 days at the office and 3 days remote)
Elena Oprea

1yr ago

Any recommendations to automate content creation?

It can be tips and tricks, tools, platforms, anything that works for you!
Shabnam Katoch

1yr ago

Let’s Connect on LinkedIn

Hey PH fam! I am Shabnam, I am a Growth Marketer for SaaS and tech startups Drop your LinkedIn Profiles in Comments and I would love to connect with you, Here s mine - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ssha...
Nika

1yr ago

If you could change one law in your country to make life easier for entrepreneurs, what would it be?

Let's complain about our government. (OK, jokes aside.) Speaking about my country ( Slovakia): I would abolish the obligation to register a company before someone starts doing business and figure out whether it s worth it. (In the USA, they have a better system because people can start invoicing before officially registering their company.) This would solve many issues here. For example, even if we were at a loss during the first few years, we wouldn t have to pay taxes (yes, currently we have to pay taxes even when we are in red). How is it in your country and what would you change?
Sajad Kioumarsi

1yr ago

Appsumo! YES or NO?

Should I launch my product on AppSumo? What has been your experience with AppSumo for gaining traction and growing your user base?
Cedric

1yr ago

Free Fonts for Effective Landing Page Design

I have been developing landing pages recently, and these four are the free fonts I commonly use: -Inter (concise, used for text block copy) ) -Poppins (used for headlines or Hero center sections) ) -Geist (equally wide and highly readable, designed for developers and designers) ) -Fira Code (symbol optimization used for encoding terminals to facilitate code understanding) ) You can find it in Google Fonts and use it for free.