Ethan Marshall's profile on Product Hunt

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This media strategist focuses on helping digital creators scale their audiences through organic distribution, clear copywriting, and visual storytelling that cuts through noisy feeds. Passionate about sustainable community building and finding platforms that allow creators to own their audience data without relying on algorithmic whims. This profile tracks Product Hunt daily to discover next-generation video asset managers, text-to-speech tools, and analytics dashboards that turn chaotic platform metrics into clear, actionable content strategies.

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5d ago

💸 When is a product/maker ready to raise money?

At what point does a product become ready to talk to investors?

When you have users?
Revenue?
A clear business model?
A certain number of people using it?

Especially for solo or small-team makers, it feels twice as hard to reach all of these points alone - while continuing to build the product without income and bootstrapping everything.

At some point, it starts to feel like an infinite loop:

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13d ago

How do you find out when someone posts about your product?

Real question. Do you search X and Reddit by hand, run alerts, pay for a tool, or just wait for someone to DM you a screenshot? Curious what actually works, especially for TikTok and Threads where I never catch anything in time.

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14d ago

How are you planning your roadmap and marketing in the AI era?

Everyone uses AI now. To code. To write. To ship faster. But planning still feels stuck in the old days. Roadmaps get built on guesswork. Marketing means posting and hoping.

I am following spec driven development. I write the specs first. Every feature, every decision, ties back to it. It keeps me from drifting into random ideas mid build. My roadmap comes from that spec, not from gut feeling.

I use the same thinking for marketing. I write down what I'm building, who it's for, and why it matters. Before I post anything.

So I'm curious. How are you planning your roadmap right now? Do you have an actual system, or are you winging it like most of us?