Jeff Lacey's profile on Product Hunt

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Software engineer with 15+ years in iOS and enterprise systems. Building AnimalID — a pet health records app with AI-powered document extraction. A wife, three dogs, years of volunteering at the Austin Humane Society, and a ranch in Texas. Built the entire product using an agentic AI development workflow — Claude & Codex writing code while I architect and orchestrate. Solo founder, no VC, just solving a problem I've lived with.

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2mo ago

I Spent 6 Months Building a Product AI Would Never Mention. Here's What I Learned.

Six months ago, I launched a product.

Beautiful landing page. Great onboarding. Real customers. Solid retention.

One problem: AI never mentioned it.

Not in ChatGPT. Not in Perplexity. Not in Gemini.

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2mo ago

Would you lie about your company's performance just to get better opportunities?

I think we all lie every day (even when we say "Good night" to someone, and we don't even have to mean it sincerely).

We also lie on our resumes, we don't fully disclose everything on our tax returns, and we sometimes fake income.

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2mo ago

How do you decide which features to add to your product? [building & improvements]

Early-stage founders often try to improve their product as much as possible and tend to take almost any feedback into account.

Sometimes they end up adding every feature users (even non-paying ones) ask for, even when those features are unnecessary. The product then becomes more complicated and harder to use.

And I m not even talking about the stage when the product is already established. At that point, there are more users, and their expectations start to differ.