Joonas Lehtinen

Joonas Lehtinen

Web. Open Source. Enterpreuner. CS PhD.

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Maker History

  • Stand
    StandAI website chat that pulls you in when it matters
    Jul 2026
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    Joined Product HuntNovember 9th, 2021

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Card or no card for free trials?

Quick poll for founders (and anyone who tests out new SaaS tools): do you ask for a credit card upfront, or let people straight in?

We went with requiring a card for k dlo. The thinking was pretty simple: fewer signups overall, but higher intent people actually kick the tires instead of bouncing after two minutes. Without a card, you get a flood of accounts that log in once and ghost.

But I m genuinely torn here. A card wall definitely kills casual curiosity, especially when you're an unknown product. On the flip side, no-card trials often just give you vanity metrics that don't convert.

Two quick questions:

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4mo ago

Stand - AI website chat that pulls you in when it matters

Most website chat tools minimize human workload. Stand does the opposite: it helps product leaders learn from visitor conversations. What didn’t visitors understand? Why didn’t they convert? An AI stand-in answers questions 24/7, spots conversations worth joining, and brings you in with full context. It turns chats into product discovery insights you can trace back to the source. Free for 15 AI chats a week, with no credit card.
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4yr ago

snipt.dev - Search engine for code snippets

snipt.dev is a search engine for code snippets. Instead of fishing for code to reuse on Stackoverflow, Sourcegraph or GitHub developers can enter what they are looking for and find safe and reusable code they can copy in their IDE.
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