Do you spend 3 hours trying to find a clever .com before writing a single line of code? Or do you ship the MVP and slap on whatever domain wasn t taken at the time?
Do you spend 3 hours trying to find a clever .com before writing a single line of code? Or do you ship the MVP and slap on whatever domain wasn t taken at the time?
Hi all, Just wondering if this is a good product idea - It would be a Ai companion that sits on a surface in your house, it would have a predetermined personality, maybe like a fish or something that's been caught.
Imagine a small, device that you can talk to and it talks back. No screens, no complicated setup just plug it into the wall, and it's ready to chat.
Common Sense Media published a report on this topic, and it reminded me of how big a bubble I live in.
When Meta announced back in 2024/2025 that they wanted to create AI avatars to boost engagement, I was skeptic, but data speaks clearly young people enjoy AI interaction.
I ve been in the almost done zone for a while now, that weird spot between polishing features, fixing edge cases, and suddenly rethinking the UI at 2AM. I ve got the Launching Soon badge on my profile now, and I m both hyped and slightly terrified. So I m asking the community: How do you decide it s ready to ship? Do you wait for perfect or launch fast and iterate? What gave you the confidence to hit publish? Would love to hear your war stories, near-launch chaos, and what helped you push through.
Building and launching products, testing them in real markets and building a business are like mini-MBAs. It teaches you a lot of things about human behavior, finance, marketing, sales, entrepreneurship, management and more.
We become wiser; and wish someone had given us the right advice at the right time.
I'm amazed by the number of products that launch on PH every day. I think it would be cool to know what inspired you to build your product.
For me, I desperately was trying to solve my own problems and frustrations. For nearly 20 years that I'm building online communities, I realised that our competition didn't solve for the two most basic problems:
So my team and I have been hard at work to finish developing our app product, and as the visionary and product designer and director, I'm beginning to make a list of features that will be added within the first couple of months of us launching. My question is: how have you guys chose what are the top new features that will be prioritized and built? What are some best practices for first new features of a software product? Any advice would be appreciated!
Startups, entrepreneurship and 'being your own boss' is all cool, until you experience the struggles of building a product, marketing it, handing support requests.
For a lot of people it's a shocker. If you are a thrill seeker, you may actually enjoy the process of building your business.
I started coding when I was 12, and over time I ve built tens of apps, websites and programs. Most of them didn t have a clear purpose so I ended up leaving them unattended. However, I do remember one particular project I created during the pandemic: an augmented reality app. I worked on the project for around three years and last summer, while talking to some friends and my mum, I ended up deciding to terminate the project. Have you ever been in this type of situation where you are afraid of stepping down from a project because you re perhaps emotionally attached to it?
My co-founder and I are building MVP.ai, emotionally intelligent AI companions that people can learn from (from skills to studying), regulate and process their emotions (thus increasing emotional IQ), talk with, and overall, grow together in an immersive bonding experience.
But wait... building AI companions, that seems unethical? Dangerous, right?
Human research is a very important part of the development process behind a mental health app like Nomadful. Even though well-being is fundamental for both professional and private life, some companies still aren't doing anything to back this up or ensure mental health is offered to users as their right, more than just a job perk.
How's the situation with mental health at your workplace?
So imo, one of the logical conclusions of AI automation is a universal basic income that fully meets people's needs (let's call that a "full UBI"). If one day, 99% of jobs as we know them were automated, at that point I think the vast majority of people would want a full UBI, which is much higher than what most countries offer today, if they have a UBI at all.
But what I'm wondering is: what is the tipping point? Clearly the current level of automation isn't sufficient to get everyone on board with UBI. But some people have predicted that 50% of jobs could be automated within 20 years: if 50% of jobs went away, would you want a full UBI? What about 70%?
Hey, I'm Jordan, the founder and CEO of the AI startup company, MVP.ai. Our product? Emotionally intelligent AI avatar companions, focused on aiding users' with their creative and writing endeavors, regulating and processing their emotions, learning new skills, and overall, growing in an immersive human-AI collaborative relationship.
All of you who are building a personal brand, I guess, keeping up with the onslaught of notifications is not the easiest thing to do. I personally open some notifications after a month (like today on Bluesky, Substack and Twitter), not to mention that I reply to some messages after months. It helps me keep my sanity. But it took me almost 4 hours to handle these today.
On the other hand, I manage ProductHunt and LinkedIn quite regularly.
Minimalism and modernization has had its grip on not just the tech industry, but just about everything, for a decade plus now. From products and branding to entire company cultures, I believe it's all harming us in the long-run and the effects have been showing for awhile now.
You can even take a look at AI as well, so many tools feel sterile and transactional, entirely focused on automation, maximizing business operations and maximizing profits. It's efficient, sure, but where's the soul? The creativity? The humanity?
I am an early-stage founder, but I am also a 20-year-old college student. This post is from the perspective of the latter and looks to give founders/anyone trying to market their company a look into the social media tendencies of a college student.
70% of the time I spend on social media is on Instagram Reels. Same with the majority of my friends.
I recently started a small project, something I thought I could finish over a weekend just to fix an annoying part of my workflow. But a few days in, it hit me: the thing I was building wasn t just solving a small problem... it was opening up a whole new way to work. What started as a utility tool is now turning into something a lot more ambitious. And honestly? Kinda intimidating. So I m curious, have you ever built something with a small goal in mind only to realize halfway through that it had way more potential than you expected? How did you handle that shift? Did you lean into it, or keep it small on purpose? Would love to hear how others have navigated this. Always fascinating how big ideas sneak up on us through small projects.
