We analyzed the codebases of 100 startups that hit a scalability wall (*) The goal was not to find the most exotic bug. The goal was to find the most common, expensive, and preventable patterns of failure.
The results were almost identical across 85% of them. Here is what the data says.
The Timeline to Failure
Months 1 6: Everything worked. Fast releases. Happy customers. No time for architecture.
I formally studied marketing as a university program (5 years), and due to inspiration on social networks, it feels completely natural to do it, even easy to learn (because most of the time you just guess what might work for you).
It s been a week since we launched Ovren - and I just want to say a genuine thank you.
We built Ovren because every team has backlog work that never makes it into a sprint. Not more ideas. Not more AI suggestions. Real engineering work that needs to get shipped.
So we launched Ovren as an AI engineering execution product for real backlog tasks: AI frontend and backend engineers that work inside your real codebase, execute scoped work, and return reviewable code updates.
Y Combinator startup will pay humans to help AI agents when they get stuck. (This is what I read today.)
At the same time, I see how Indian employees in production have cameras on their heads, and the AI learns from their movements (practically filming their firing process).
In addition, there was already a site where AI agents hired human actions for stablecoins.
First, AI worked for us.
Now we are starting to work for AI.
And eventually, will AI work (without us)?
I don t want to portray a Terminator scenario where people will have to unite against AI, but what future awaits us in terms of cooperation/non-cooperation with AI?
We are soon launching Filleo an AI-powered Shopify tool that helps merchants create 'complete' product listings in seconds, built especially for dropshippers, resellers, and fast-moving stores.
A few things we focused on that most product listing creation tools skip:
Creating not only titles, descriptions, SEO fields, and variants but also smartly determining other key fields like Product Weight, HS Code, Country Of Origin, Tags, Product Category, SKU and much more!
Allow pasting messy and unstructured Product data from suppliers that is often not properly formatted.
Provide consistency across product listings by giving an option to personalize Agent's Generation to match your needs
Generate a 'Complete' Online Product Draft within seconds for you to verify and immediately publish
Flexible and affordable pricing plans starting with just 0.99$!
We just launched our newest product Onform on Product Hunt today and would love your support!
Onform is an alternative to Typeform and Jotform. Build and manage forms completely through Claude Desktop using plain language no dashboard required. Intake forms, post-meeting surveys, feedback forms all of it, just by chatting.
Basic plan allows you create as many forms, and get many responses as you want.
We ve made a lot of progress on the backend and core systems. We re building our own open-source ASR NMT TTS pipeline and aiming for ~1 second real-time translation.
Right now, we support 17 output languages and 10 input languages, with plans to expand further.
it's an iOS photo sharing app that takes you back to when social media was actually about in 2015 ,sharing moments with friends. Before the ads, the algorithms, and the endless video reels took over.
I grew up during the golden era of Instagram, back in 2012 2015, when your feed was just photos from your friends in the order they posted them. No ads interrupting the scroll. No algorithm deciding what you should see. No pressure to make reels or go viral. Just real moments, shared simply. That version of social media made me fall in love with photography Infotograf gives you a simple chronological feed, beautiful film-inspired filters, and ambient audio captured with every photo so you can hear the moment, not just see it. It connects to the Fediverse through ActivityPub, which means your photos aren't trapped in any one company's ecosystem. You own everything you post. I built the whole thing solo. Your support keeps the servers running and motivate me to keep going.thank you deeply. UPDATE IOS AND ANDROID APPS are ready still early days but it works and it's free iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id6761331537 Android (beta): play.google.com/apps/testing/com.infotograf.android policy: infotograf.com/about thanks for reading everyone, nice day.
Someone told me: "Just be consistent. Post every day. The algorithm rewards consistency."
So I did.
For six months, I posted every single day. Sometimes at 7am. Sometimes at 10pm. Weekends included. I wrote about our product, our features, our roadmap. I followed all the "best practices" hook in the first line, three takeaways, call to action at the end.
Here's the deal: Post updates about your project, or learning, or just document your goals on forg.to for 100 days straight and we'll pay for your Claude Pro subscription.
Hit 200 days and another month. Every 100 days after that, forever.
I wrote a forum post not long ago on marketing as one of the rising in importance hires for all startups. This is all the things we've done, with some results and free resources.
Let me start from the creator s perspective: I personally don t have a product (apart from hiring people for creative work or offering personal consultations).
But as a creator, I constantly share content, insights, and information, value that helps me build trust (for free). Based on that perceived expertise, people eventually decide to work with me (a paid service).
We just launched a new series called Build It Now, where builders take a real idea and ship it live inside CreateOS. No staged demos, no pre-written code; just the build, start to finish.
Episode 1 follows Kalash Vasaniya as he builds Justref: a platform where businesses create affiliate programs and participants join, share referral links, and earn based on conversions. He leveraged the following CreateOS features:
Backend services
Database management
Messaging queues
Scheduled jobs
Version one is complete and being refined, with public launch on CreateOS coming in the next few weeks.
