I ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how people actually work with prompts while building a tool in this space, and I realized I have way more questions than answers.
This community helped turn a scrappy weekend project into something used by 25,000+ people from all around the world. So it felt right to share this here first:
On Jan 31, we are launching Pretty Prompt 1.0 right here on Product Hunt.
Hi Ilai, Huge fan of the product, I've been a user since you launched on producthunt of so long ago, curious if you have plans for a dedicated desktop app? I find the context switch between browser and vs code/other apps is distracting and it would be awesome to have the ability to just short cut key into pretty prompt. Thanks, SteveC
First day back with my co-founder Charlie, and we showed up ready to build! Feels a bit like the first day back at school: excited, a little nervous, ready to dive in .
Hey makers! I've been deep in prompt engineering lately while building an AI tool, and I'm genuinely curious about how others approach this. A few questions: 1. Do you save your best prompts somewhere? Notion, text files, dedicated app, or just copy-paste from chat history? 2. How do you iterate? Do you have a systematic approach or just tweak until it works? 3. Different prompts for different models? Or do you use the same prompt for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini? 4. Text vs image prompts do you treat them completely differently? I've noticed I was doing the same optimizations over and over (adding role, being more specific, structuring output format), which made me wonder if everyone has their own "prompt formula." Would love to hear your workflows!
Since I haven't been able to meet my work goals very well in the last few quarters, I now plan to approach them more systematically and not push myself too hard on work goals, as that ultimately led to problems that made my plan less sustainable.
20,000 users. Just in time for the new year It s not a finish line. Just another step. If you used Pretty Prompt even once this year, this one s yours too.
I can't believe we got here in just 7 months, all from that first PH launch... Tonight, it s a glass of Malbec and family time. Short pause to close 2025. Then back to building.
While flying to Argentina to visit my family for the New Year, I scrolled through my phone and realized how much happened since we launched Pretty Prompt on Product Hunt 7 months ago.
I was doubting myself about whether I should post this. It's hard to share your real story in front of thousands of people and not be critical about it. But it s out !
All the slides from the HubSpot x Pretty Prompt event - Preview here
Feels a bit cringe. But you do what you have to do to grow your company, and maybe these learnings help other builders scale their products as we did.
Still feels surreal. 5 years ago I didn't know what a startup was. Two weeks ago, we stood at @Stripe, sharing what we ve built... and the numbers are crazy:
10,000+ users in under 3 months (now nearly 18,000)
220M+ tokens processed in 90 days (that's ~93k tokens/hour)
Built in a space most people call just a wrapper . we went all-in on a single problem.
179,000 views in 7 days (I guess it s not just us who are geeky about AI tokens )
Here s what we shared at Stripe: milestones, mistakes, learnings, and our honest journey. No here s how you do X , only here s what we ve learned and what worked for us.
Can t believe how far we ve come since the original launch here, in Product Hunt. None of this momentum would be possible without your feedback and support .
Today, a few new updates are live across the Extension and Web App.
A fresh batch of quality-of-life upgrades just rolled out. All focused on helping all of us prompting more and more, stay organized, move faster, and keep your best prompts at hand.
Here s what s new:
Prompt Folders (in the Extension!) The same clean UI you use in the Web App, now available right inside the extension. It's really handy when trying to find the right prompt at the right time.
