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I was watching a video by Chamath Palihapitiya, he was talking about the early days on how he grew Facebook. He mentioned that getting user to the "Aha" moment as early as possible is something that they focused on tirelessly. Their success metrics was "A user should invite 10 friends on the first 7 days of them signing-up" What is your Aha moment? How do you quantify them?
We mostly set our goals for our work, what's the ARR we want to accomplish, how many users we want to get, but there's so much more to what we do. I'd love to know did you set your goals for your other part of life? Any fitness goals? Relationship goals? New experiences?
Hey, Product Hunters! Let s grow our founder network drop your LinkedIn profiles below, and let s connect with each other! Here's mine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fran...
2025 we will see a wave of start-ups pushing out actually useful tools to 10x our productivity, very excited about how agents will change the way we work
I recently read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and it offered a profound perspective on life. It reminded me that, regardless of our circumstances whether rich or poor, successful or struggling we must stay grounded and practice gratitude daily. Life is fleeting, and the most meaningful way to honor it is by living with purpose, focusing on what we can control, and appreciating the present moment.
Here's my stack that I use to keep me grounded & productive - Notion - Notion Calendar - Forest App
- Unhook Youtube - Buffer - BookRead AI - Arc Browser What do you use?
I'm hoping to finish 52 books in 2025, one books a week is the goal. Some of the books that I look forward to read the most are: - Principles by Ray Daly
- Seneca Dialogues and Essays
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Zero - Biography of a Dangerous Idea
- Why we sleep by Matthew Walker
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Complexity of Santa Fe institute - The republic - Plato - Men are from Mars women are from Venus - Musonius Rufus: Lectures and Sayings - Epictetus Manual/Enchiridion
- Setting the table - Danny Mayner - A man in full
- Just kids - 1000 true fans - Kevin Kelly - Creativity Inc. - Biographical sketch of Diogenes of Sinope
- Letter from a stoic - Nonviolent communication
For me it was Steve Job's famous quote "Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use." It made me realize that I am just like anyone else no better, no worse. It gave me the belief and confidence that if I put my mind to it, I can create things that are amazing, beautiful, and appreciated by the people around me. It shifted me from a victim mentality to a growth mindset. I now understand that I have the power to take control of my life and influence the world. Rise up!
I'll start. I started my first company when I was still in University, at the time I was in the "Rapid Delivery" space, delivering grocery in 15 minutes to local students. We got some great tractions, but we never made a profit, and had the hope that it'll be profitable when we scale. However, we soon realized it's a business that will never make a profit, and we were just chasing the trend of "Rapid Delivery". We saw it was hot in Europe, that's why we did it in Canada. It turns out that no players survived in this rapid delivery space. Billions of VC dollar all went down the drain... This taught me a few important lesson, before we are a start-up, we have to be a business, that have solid business fundamental, then we can consider how to grow fast. Second is to not follow the trend, you never know what started the trend, and whether the trend will be a fad. Just follow what you're truly interested in or believe in. Thanks for reading, what's some "failures" that taught you a big lesson?
I make sure I get 8 hours, it's an luxury I know, but I found that I am the most happy at work, and most productive when I get my full 8 hours. Sacrificing sleep for me is just not worth it, bad for me, bad for people around me. What about you? How many hours do you sleep?
For me, it was my own problem, I had a hard time reading Philosophy/Classic books, I tried using AI to help me read, and that has been transformative. But the problem is that I have to flip back and forth between my book & ChatGPT, that was super annoying. So, that's why I decided to make BookRead, an AI-Powered E-Reader. What about you? What inspired you to pursue your start-up idea?
Hey everyone I m Jakob, co-founder of Butter, which we've built to help people run super-engaging, interactive sessions from start to finish. We re about to launch Scenes, an exciting new tool for interactive presentations and collaboration which people can use alongside Zoom/MS Teams/Google Meet perfect for anyone who cares about keeping participants focused and engaged! We ve launched on Product Hunt 3x before, and we've hit #1 Product of the Day and became a finalist for the Golden Kitty Awards so I'm super grateful and excited to do an AMA and share our learnings here! Ask me anything about building a fully-remote startup, product- and community-led growth, keeping clarity, conviction and focus as a founder, and the future of collaboration!
For me the backend and Devops has been a steep learning curve. I did go through the CS50 courses, but I feel like at some point I'll need to start reading documentations and learn the syntax. What's your biggest road blocks so far?
