Christopher Kilpatrick

The writing flow I like is: 1. Write a first draft with no word count. 2. Turn on word count, and try to decrease the count by ≈25%. I find that allows me to flow naturally in the initial draft, and then I have a loose target to help me make my writing more concise.

These days the number one thing that makes me instantly delete an app from my phone or close the browser tab is privacy concerns. It's fine if apps want to allow integrations with things like location, microphone, camera, photos, and contacts access as a nice-to-have way to make their UI flow better. But, if it's the only way to use those "useful on paper" features, then I'm almost always going...

I think your "needed a job and I genuinely liked the product" reason is probably one of the best-case reasons to join a new project. It's a real treat to be able to work on products you actually enjoy using yourself. My day job is running a software consultancy, but I built @Known Names in my free time as a way of solving my own problem with remembering names. It's a completely free app, so...

I think it’s a win-win for founders to openly talk about failed projects. For the audience, there’s often just as much to learn (perhaps even more) from a retrospective look at a failed project than a viral success. And, it helps psychologically to know most people with huge success often had forgotten failures first. For the founder, I think it can help people better relate to you as a real...

I really like your human chat support feature where you are personally online to chat with people! I'm so tired of all the "AI" support chatbots that are basically useless. You being online to answer questions yourself about the thing you built is less scalable, but a thousand times more useful to potential customers than chatting with a bot.

Love the energy of this project! You’re already endorsed by Bernie Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes! I bet if you reach out to Sam Bankman-Fried’s team, you could secure an endorsement from him as well. I predict that getting SBF onboard will quadruple your MRR.

Cool concept and UI design! Gamifying being healthier seems like a great way to help make it easier to make healthy choices. When you redesigned this, did you do all the UI designs yourself? I also looked at your step tracking app and like the vibes of both.

I took off from work and spent the first two days of 2026 out in nature in my country’s national parks. Checked off another high point with a 9 mile hike up to Texas’ Guadalupe Peak (alt. 8,750 ft) and then a quick walk through the beautiful Carlsbad Caverns that are also in the Guadalupe mountain range. I’m back at work today, rested and fresh for starting the new year.

I’m assuming any followers of either your product page or personal account will get notified when you launch? If so, that seems like a really good suggestion to get followers on both before launching. Do you have any tips on the practical implementation side of this? For example, I’m launching an app Jan 13th, but no users will see the product page until the launch day. How do you recommend...

I think this could be a cool way to gamify micro charity donations! Especially if the low entry point draws in a huge number of donors that might not otherwise donate. It does leave me with some questions that would be helpful to answer in your launch promo materials, such as: How does the voting system work? Does the plurality of votes across the platform determine where all donations (the...

I've been working remotely since 2016, and one of the most impactful changes I've made is to continue working "remotely" but stop working "from home". I experienced all of the downsides you mentioned when working from a room in my house. I'm lucky to have nearby coffee shops I can work from only a 5 minute walk away. This creates a dedicated "second space" that family sees as being at the...

Cool idea! I often decide what to wear for the current day based on the previous day’s weather. Since where I live in the US south can have large temperature shifts from week to week, I sometimes choose incorrectly. Your app is a nice way to keep my basic system but do it more accurately. The main feature I would like to see added is the ability to get the weather forecast privately. Location...

Sleep was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw your headline. It's going to be really hard to beat sleep and exercise for the short and longterm impact it'll have on your life (physical health, mental health, productivity, etc). One thing I just learned about is @znaz 's @Brick which is a physical "brick" you touch your phone to and then whatever apps you've selected won't open...

There're a lot of reasons for people not wanting to pay for things. I can’t speak to areas outside the US, but here I think a big driver is cultural expectations around what should be free vs low cost vs high cost. For example, the tech industry has made so much software and content “free” by monetizing our data, that "free" has become a cultural norm in some areas. That makes it much harder...

If you don't see many evaluation runs in your analytics, one thing I'd suggest is following your launch link from Product Hunt in a browser where you're not signed in to replicate the flow new users from PH will have. Confirm your evaluations are successfully running for new users. It might be that people are trying to test the product, but it is failing before their evaluation attempt hits...

Congrats on reaching 1st of the day and 1st of the week! I wanted to mention a few things that would have helped draw me in. Even after reading the top paragraph, reviewing all the photo slides, and reading your website, I still didn't really understand what your product was. I've read a bunch of your comments below, and you've done a good job of explaining the product in the comments. I'd...