Muhammad Usama

Hi everyone, I'm Usama. I run a couple of niche content sites for dog and cat owners, and I'm starting to build small free web tools (calculators and checkers) to add to them.

I joined Product Hunt to learn how other makers decide what to build, how they validate it before investing time, and how they launch with a very small audience.

I'd love to hear from other solo builders: what was the first small tool you built, and how did you find out people wanted it?

Looking forward to learning from you all.

Hi Product Hunters, I'm here to share our short but hopefully promising and inspiring story!
Alex and I are a couple building Browser Extensions for effective learning. It all started just for fun and desire to take up new coding skills: we needed such an extension and there was nothing on the store that felt right. So why not to build it by yourself? So Alex did.
Then boom!... and somehow our first product - YouTube Summaries has organically grown to 20.000 users in a year. Without any promotion, even without friends' and family's installs :))
That became a turning point for us and we decided that this 'pet' project is actually worth investing more time and effort. Listing some activities afterwards: developing new features, improving UI and other design stuff, monetising (free version is still there!) and still working hard to gain more users and tune product along the way.
Here are the products themselves:

• Clarify AI: YouTube Summaries - AI-powered YouTube videos Summarizer with cool features to work with its content and save notes (Launched on PH recently).

• Clarify AI: Screen Answers (LAUNCHING TODAY) is a Browser Extension that lets you ask AI about anything you see in your browser: a chart, a paragraph, an error message, an image, and get the answer in one click.
  Clarify AI products are aimed to 'complete' each other and make a perfect combination of tools for efficient studying online. They all work independently and have free versions, but in a combination radically change the workflow by boosting productivity and saving time on unnecessary stuff.

  Why I've mentioned pets btw? That's the coolest part! Being a business owner means you make your own rules, so we made our cat's and dog's pics a crucial part of marketing (emails, social media ect). Go check our website and see :))
  We're very open to feedback (actually, we count on it) and happy to hear your thoughts!
  Also, we hope to become a part of a real community at PH, so please feel free to share your product in education/productivity sphere and others. There's always a room for collabs!
  Thanks for your attention, guys. Believe in what you do and everyone will at some point!