Julia Yu

Product Hunt is becoming brutally competitive.

And if you ve been launching here for a few years, you re not imagining it

Hey, builders
Over the past three years, I ve interviewed hundreds of founders and early-stage investors. Based on what I learned and the encouraging feedback from a close circle of investors I m launching TheBold.

Recently, @Product Hunt published our article about how pre-seed fundraising changed in 2026.

The biggest shift of the last few years:

AI dramatically reduced the cost and speed of building products.

Because of this, the signals investors optimize for have changed as well.

In the article, I openly talk about what we see inside Unicorns Club after watching hundreds of founders try to raise funding. I even share some of the traction thresholds and benchmarks investors inside our community increasingly expect to see.

You can read the article here:
https://medium.com/@producthunt/...