Just launched my tiny little product CVFolio - which turns your pdf resume into a professional, minimal portfolio website. and I'm having that 'did I just waste my weekend?' moment

Built this thing in 2 days because I couldn't get the idea out of my head. Now it's live on PH CVFolio and I'm staring at upvotes wondering if they actually mean anything or if people just click buttons.

No, I m not a freelancer. I don t have clients.

But I couldn t stop thinking:

"Why the hell do we still send Looms, screenshots, or set up staging servers - just to get feedback on a dev build?"

I used to build in public on X.

At first it felt real. Then it got performative.

Everyone was shipping, but also just pretending.

I'm currently a team of 1, and some days it can be hard (and lonely) to just keep grinding. Curious to hear from other solo builders here how you stay motivated and consistent over the long run?

Things helping me a lot right now:

• Private community to share progress

• Lots of small releases

• Reaching out to current users to get more feedback and direct work

• Reminding myself that it sometimes just takes time

I launched a few things. Got some upvotes. But nothing really came out of it. No real users. No honest feedback.

Been thinking... maybe the way we launch is broken.

Starting something completely new, iterating on an existing project, or just brainstorming? Drop your plans here and get some feedback!

What I'd love to hear:

• What are you tackling this weekend?

• Any interesting challenges you're working through?

• Looking for feedback on an idea or feature?

Whenever I click through to the social media profiles of the makers in the product hunt community, I find that they are quite versatile and are involved in things other than just business.

What other skills do you have besides your work skills?

Hey everyone, just wanted to share a quick update from my weekend vibe coding grind ,i mostly use v0 for building and here is how I accidentally landed on something cool.

I was deep in bug fixing mode on @Unrealshot AI . you know, the usual why is this broken now?! kinda vibe. For the last 8-10 days, no sales, competition s tough out there. While working through those bugs, I started thinking about ways to make the app more unique, useful, and personal.

What if it could create photos not just of one person, but couples too? Real, believable couple shots from just selfies.

Weekends are for side projects!

Share what you're going to be building or an idea you're kicking around.

It's simple. Drop your next big idea and get some brutally honest but hopefully valuable feedback. The rules are:

• Drop your idea, you don't have to go super in depth but give a sentence or two about what it is and does.

• Get roasted, duh

• Roast someone else's.

That way we create a cycle of feedback

I didn t plan to become a maker. In 2022, I was just messing around with writing blogs to make my living. No budget, no team, just me trying to figure out WordPress while following random YouTube tutorials at 2 AM. My site looked like it was built during an earthquake. But hey, it worked (barely), and I was learning, from writing blogs to designing my own wordpress site.
A year later, Based on my learnings to design wordpress sites, I started freelancing - building websites for small business owners using whatever I knew. I also started selling readymade design templates for WordPress (generatepress & Elementor) via youtube. Nothing fancy, just trying to make things work. That s when I started leaning hard into AI tools. ChatGPT, & Claude I wasn t just using them, I was building with them. They became a second brain I could offload work to.
And honestly? That changed everything.
I went from overthinking every line of code to shipping full products. I built Unrealshot AI (selfies to CEO shots), Lexistock AI (photo editing related tools), and Saze AI (for spitting out general content writing).
I even started teaching others how to use AI through my YouTube channel, mostly for people who still think prompting is a typo.
And today, I'm launching something new: Threddr- a tool that helps you find your early users directly from Reddit. It reads posts, figures out who's looking for what you ve built, and helps you write replies that actually sound human. All built using AI tools like v0, claude and CatGPT, obviously. 2 more products are on the way too, launching them in next week.
I didn't have a plan when I started. I just kept showing up, building stuff, and letting AI handle the things I wasn't good at (yet).
If you're thinking of building something, start scrappy.
You don't need to be an expert. You just need to ship by solving a problem of others.

Hey folks! I just had a fun little coding session and wanted to share my experience. I built this thing I m calling ClientScope in just 2 hours using @V0.dev and I m honestly kinda proud of it!

What s CLientscope?

Prompting is everything in the age of vibe coding. Knowing how to guide AI precisely and efficiently is the key to getting the results you want. Today, I m sharing some of my favorite prompting tips, plus a handy cheatsheet I put together.

Prompting Tips That Actually Work

• Be spatially specific. Use keywords like "left", "right", "centered", "aligned to bottom", "spaced evenly" to help the model place elements correctly.

• Mention device behavior. If it should behave differently on mobile vs desktop, say so. Ex: "stacks on mobile, grid on desktop".

• Use visual vocabulary. Mention familiar UI terms like "modal", "toast", "card", "hero section", or "split view" to tap into known design structures.

• Give UX intent. Add the why: "Add white space for readability", "Add a hover effect for feedback", "Use a progress bar to show completion".

• Sequence your ideas. For complex prompts, list in steps: "First, add a header. Below that, place a form with two inputs...". AI loves structure.

• Say what not to do. If you want to avoid scrollbars, animations, shadows, etc., say so.

• Don t forget empty states. Great design considers what happens when nothing is there say "show a placeholder when list is empty".

• Test prompt variants. Swap words like "tile" vs "card", "modal" vs "popup" to see which gives cleaner structure.

• Use active voice. Start with a verb: "Add", "Place", "Make", "Create", "Animate", "Style". It helps guide generation.

and how i got hunters to back my launch

most people treat product hunt like a slot machine. pull the lever, hope for upvotes. but if you re launching anything serious, that s a waste.