Hi there! I've been working in content marketing & SEO for almost a decade - and while I've seen many announcements of the death of SEO, the current search climate, combined with the latest announcements from Google are strong signals that SEO may (finally ) be over.

What do you think? Is "answer engine optimization" the answer?

Hey PH community!

We re preparing for our upcoming launch on Product Hunt and planning to include a short video introducing our product. We re debating between two approaches and would love your input:

Apple is hosting its 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference starting Monday (You can watch live here), and there are rumours about what people can expect.

I read the TechCrunch article, and some hints are:

Most startups that VCs invest in do not survive or succeed as originally planned.

According to statistics, only 1  2 out of 10 VC-backed startups end up as a major success or unicorn.

Product Hunt has launched a significant reconfiguration of the product hub embedding launches within a company's or hub's frame:

Not looking for the usual "DM people on LinkedIn" or "personalized cold emails"

I want the weird stuff you tried that had insane results.

I'll start: We sent 50 pizzas with custom packaging to super specific people in our target persona.

Result: 95% called us back and hopped on a call.

The biggest boom in remote work was during the COVID pandemic, but corporations have started to call employees back into their offices, either because of prepaid office space or better control over employees' work.

Some have stuck with the remote model until now, e.g. Spotify.

Hey, I m Alex Saint

I m a solo indie hacker based in Paris, and fun fact I only started coding thanks to AI tools. I got inspired watching Marc Lou s videos on YouTube, picked up some tools, started building and tweeting.

Hey, I m Alex Saint

I m a solo indie hacker based in Paris, and fun fact I only started coding thanks to AI tools. I got inspired watching Marc Lou s videos on YouTube, picked up some tools, started building and tweeting.

We sell daily.

Not only in our business life, but also in our personal life.

What we need to do is convince people that our product or our personality is the best possible option they can choose from.

Not looking for the obvious 'use a VA' or hire freelancers.

What s one thing you do that makes delegation actually work for you as a founder?

Could be:

A way you brief people

Hey fellow Chyridians (yeah, we just decided that this is a term now),

after our launch here on product hunt last week, we gained more users than we could have imagined. So first of all, thanks a lot for that!

Along with our users came a lot of feedback and ideas for new features that we should add, one of them being embedded code-blocks and that is what we went for first! We are excited to announce that as of today, you can use the new Source Code block! This block will allow you to paste your code as well as select the programming language to allow for proper syntax highlighting when being rendered in the finished manual.

Not gonna lie.. I didn t expect this.

I launched IndieCru.sh with no team, no funding, and no idea how people would react.

It ended up #8 on Product Hunt, right next to companies backed by millions.

Anytime we want to see technological advancements, we either keep an eye on Product Hunt, Techcrunch or the military. And that's today's case.

In the morning, I read this announcement:

Meta is partnering with defense tech company Anduril to develop AR/VR headsets for the U.S. military, starting with a new device called EagleEye. The new headset will include night vision, thermal sensing, and augmented reality features.
The partnership has raised eyebrows due to Meta s role in data and AI, and the ethical implications of a social media giant entering the military tech space.

I ve been researching WhatsApp chatbots for business and tested a few tools. The potential seems huge:

• 24/7 customer support without hiring

• Automated lead capture from chats

• Payments directly in WhatsApp

But I m curious:

1. For those using one:

Public launch directly on Product Hunt vs going on Product Hunt a bit later.

I am looking to compare and learn from experiences of others.

PH launch is a must - so question is only about the timing.

I ve been in the growth seat at an AI ad platform (still in stealth ), and I keep running into the same question:

With tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and PMax...

Is it still worth hiring media buyers or creative teams for ad campaigns?

Not your planned channels I mean the totally random stuff:

A Reddit thread from 2017.

A niche Discord.

Someone s cousin's newsletter.

I'm talking to founders who struggle with trial-to-paid conversion. Most of the ones I've chatted with say the same thing:

"We get signups, but users go quiet after a few days. We have no idea what went wrong until they're already gone."

Pocket is shutting down - by now, we all know that. I wasn t a regular user myself, but I did test the app about a year ago.

From what I m seeing in the comments, long-time users are understandably panicking. There are plenty of alternatives out there, but it seems like people are struggling to find something they can easily switch to.

So I m curious - how did you use Pocket?

And have you found a replacement that actually works for you?