I built NoSho.app because trying to find a haircut or any service when I have immediate availability is harder than ordering food or getting a taxi. You Google, you scroll, browse bookings systems which are a maze, you DM, you call, they re full and you give up.

If you could skip all of that, and just see nearby availability instantly about any business, would you book more services?
Honest opinions welcome.

From listening to different people and their journeys, I ve realised that before they built their first profitable product, many of them failed multiple times.

Similar stories were shared by @marclou , @levelsio or @iuliia_sh to name a few.

Meku just crossed 10,000 registered users, it's a big milestone for us and hits different

The AI coding and dev tool space is loud and very competitive, but seeing so many people try Meku and actually stay shows we re building something that genuinely helps devs and teams ship faster and build better web apps

Massive love to the Meku team for grinding and polishing every day, and heartfelt thanks to our early users for trusting what we re creating

Hey everyone!

Yesterday was a wild ride for us. Swytchcode ended up winning #1 Product of the Day on 16th Nov 2025, finishing with exactly 400 votes, something we genuinely didn t expect.
We went in thinking the top product would land around 250 300 votes (on a Sunday) but three products crossed 300, and somehow we climbed all the way to the top.

We ve got a big update: after ten years, we re officially sunsetting the Golden Kitty Awards.

I wrote a list of all the things I learnt by becoming a first-time founder and leaving a role in big tech. It s more than I had when I started, so I hope it finds you at the right time:

Here we go:

• Getting going: Make sure you have a clear reason and those in your life are on same page. It is consuming!

• Unfair advantage: Founders aren t special, they just optimize to what makes them different (becomes important when raising too). It can be as simple as "worked in big company, saw firsthand the XXX problem"

• Getting started isn t easy: Make sure you consider the financial impact if leaving a job to get going Consider 12-18 months of no revenue or funding and if you can manage that

• Full-time or nothing: You can t do both a job and a startup. Investors won t back part-time conviction

• The pitch doc: Forces clarity, the problem, the customer, the market, and why you should solve it

• Raising money: Start with belief and momentum. An idea, a plan, and an MVP are enough to find your first backers

• Accelerators: Early programs like YC or Techstars can help refine your product and give you fuel to move faster. I have a longer list of Accelerators in case anyone needs it...?

• Foundations: Lock down your domain, name, trademarks, and structure early - future you will thank you

• Advisors: Find people who open doors and offer perspective, not control, ideally top % in their domain

• SaaS reality: You ll spend more on tools than you expect, it s part of building

• Building: Nothing s real until users touch it. Ship early, get feedback, iterate. It was extremely painful to hear users complain about our early bugs, but without that, we wouldn't be more reliable now...

• Co-founder: Pick someone with complementary skills and shared energy. You ll need each other

• Runway: Track every cost. I have a spreadsheet with every single one, also helps with tax reporting. Burn awareness is survival

• Energy: In a startup, you are the momentum. Working Saturday isn t working Saturday , it s pushing your dream forward

• Loved ones: Communicate early. The work will consume you; don t let it quietly consume them too

• Attention: Building is one thing. Getting noticed is harder. You ll code-switch between product, marketing, finance, and sanity

• What if you fail: Most startups do. But you ll come out sharper, braver, and more ready than ever

During COVID-19 times, when most of us were locked in our homes; I built several products. Most of them were tiny products that I could build in 2 weeks.

These were simple web apps; for example a web-app to quickly send a thank you or appreciation to anyone, without them requiring to download any app.

I m a UK-based solo maker and dad to a little toddler.

Over the last 25 years, I ve designed apps you ve probably used - for brands like JD Sports, Footasylum, Superdry, Very, TalkTalk, Nike, Hugo Boss, WattBike, and E.ON, to name a few.

Now, for the first time, I m building something of my own - I m genuinely excited to share it with you, hopefully helping a lot of people along the way.

Building and launching products, testing them in real markets and building a business are like mini-MBAs. It teaches you a lot of things about human behavior, finance, marketing, sales, entrepreneurship, management and more.

We become wiser; and wish someone had given us the right advice at the right time.

I'm amazed by the number of products that launch on PH every day. I think it would be cool to know what inspired you to build your product.

For me, I desperately was trying to solve my own problems and frustrations. For nearly 20 years that I'm building online communities, I realised that our competition didn't solve for the two most basic problems:

1. Organic Growth

2. User Retention