I'm Kavya, building FeelFund - a behavioral fintech app.
The insight: People don't struggle to save because of income or discipline. They struggle because emotions drive financial decisions. Stressed? Impulse buy. Happy? Treat yourself. Anxious? Avoid finances entirely.
The experiment: What if we redirected those emotions instead of fighting them?
I have a list of 50 people that I would kill to have a coffee with. Niche founders, retired experts, brilliant writers.
But the reality is: They won't read my cold email. And honestly, they shouldn't have to. They are busy.
The 10% Problem I realized that for all the crawling Google and OpenAI do, they have only captured maybe 10% of human intelligence. The other 90% the "Dark Matter" of wisdom is still locked inside people's heads, private journals, or offline experiences. It is "gatekept" by time and physics.
Since I haven't been able to meet my work goals very well in the last few quarters, I now plan to approach them more systematically and not push myself too hard on work goals, as that ultimately led to problems that made my plan less sustainable.
As one year comes to an end and a new one begins, I find myself pausing to reflect. If you had the chance to say something to your future self to the version of you in 2025 and 2026, what would it be?
Looking back, I want to thank myself for how much I pushed through this past year:
For finding a job I genuinely value, even after going through a long period of stress and fear of unemployment
For speaking up and sharing my own perspectives at work
For choosing action over just talking
For walking away from toxic and unnecessary work relationships
For daring to learn new things outside my original field of study
For letting go of some comforts and entertainment to focus more on my health
Quick backstory: I'm building a SaaS and needed to find potential users on Reddit. But manually scrolling through subreddits looking for relevant threads? Absolute time sink.
I ve been building a small web app on the side to help me stay consistent with my routines and goals, and I m finally at a point where I could really use a few outside eyes on it. FreedomAI started as something I made for myself because I kept bouncing between routines, apps, notes, spreadsheets all while telling myself I was being productive. I wasn t. I was just scattered. So I built one place where I could track routines, goals, and a daily FreedomScore that shows how consistent I m actually being. It s helped me a lot, but I ve only tested it on my own devices and I d love to see how it works for other people. It s a web app (works in mobile browsers), and I m planning native iOS/Androi
d versions next month once I tighten up the core features. This is still an early build not perfect, but it functions. If anyone wants to test it out and tell me what feels good or what feels confusing, I d honestly appreciate it.
Quick question for everyone following PlanEat AI. If you could eliminate just one pain in your cooking routine, what would you pick, and why? Examples: deciding what to cook, planning the week, building a shopping list, staying consistent, or anything else.
This summer, we made a bold decision to launch on Product Hunt. The problem? We had zero idea how to actually do it.
Well, almost zero. Our CTO @mokosiy was a massive Product Hunt fan, and his enthusiasm was our only compass. He armed us with the right stack: Cursor for code, PostHog for analytics, latest .NET and Avalonia to build the gorgeous app.
The Reality Check By August, the "Launching Soon" label we were banking on had vanished. We were flying blind. That's when the real work began. I didn't just read the guidelines; I followed them to the letter. We had to change the date of the Product Hunt launch five times. We realized that we weren't ready.
Hey PH community! We re preparing to launch Riftur, an AI tool within the gap analysis space that helps you compare two documents and instantly see what s missing, incomplete, or inconsistent. It s designed for anyone who works with requirements vs. deliverables proposals, audits, compliance matrices, education materials, internal SOPs, etc.
We ll be going live on Product Hunt soon, but before we do, we d love to gather some early feedback from this group:
Does the problem/solution resonate with you?
Which use cases feel strongest?
What would make the product more appealing ahead of launch?
Really appreciate any thoughts. Excited (and slightly nervous) to share Riftur with everyone soon
Many of you sometimes write to me in DMs asking how to position yourself on Product Hunt.
From the question, I always get the feeling that people want to speed up the process, publish something quickly, get a high position in the ranking of launched products and a badge. But this is a long-term game.
I've always had this habit of pressing Ctrl+C multiple times because I'm never 100% sure if the copy actually went through. So I built a simple extension called Copy Check.
It just shows a small, non-intrusive notification in the corner whenever you successfully copy text. Nothing fancy - it fades in and out smoothly.
I come from the startup world in LATAM, where passion is huge . For years, we watched incredible founders fail not because they lacked vision, but because they couldn t move from prototype to real product, or couldn t find a technical cofounder who could stay long-term.
I m doing some research into the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern life, specifically focusing on Eastern Metaphysics (like BaZi/Four Pillars of Destiny, Feng Shui).
Growing up in a middle-class Indian household, I've learnt that savings isn't just about money. There's a strong emotional and cultural association with financial wellness. Money in India is tied to far more than income and expenses.
guilt ( I should be saving more )
fear ( What if something happens tomorrow? )
comparison ( everyone my age is doing better )
family pressure ( I can t afford to fail )
Statistics have shown that Indians struggle with daily savings habits as well. Having seen this in my own family, I came up with a solution to connect emotions to savings, to reward the smallest wins of saving daily. What do you all think of this?? Have you also noticed the same?? Or am I taking this differently?
I want to become an independent developer, but I don't have any good ideas. I currently have an idea: to build an online bookmarking website that s better than the browser s built-in bookmarks not just a bookmark manager, but a personal knowledge base gateway.
Users can save web pages with one click, and the system will automatically populate the title and URL. They can organize saved items into categories. Certain articles can be marked as Read Later to prevent hoarding without actually reading. Additionally, the platform would perform weekly link health checks and automatically remove broken or invalid links.
Are there any existing competitors offering something similar? And ultimately, would anyone actually use it?
