So I've been building stuff for a while now and honestly my track record with idea validation was.. not great lol. I'd get excited about something, spend weeks building it, and then realize nobody actually wanted it. classic indie hacker mistake right
thats basically why im building ShipSnipe. I wanted something that could scan reddit, hacker news, google trends, product hunt all at once and just tell me is this idea actually worth my time or am I fooling myself again
we're launching in about 3 weeks and I'm genuinely curious what does your validation process look like right now? are you manually scrolling through subreddits? using google trends? just vibe coding and hoping for the best? because thats what I used to do and it cost me months
would love to hear how other builders approach this. still learning a ton and honestly the feedback from this community has been super helpful
been lurking on PH for a while and figured its time to actually say hi lol
quick background, I've spent the last 15 years in enterprise tech (CPaaS, messaging APIs, all that fun stuff). always had the itch to build my own things tho. about 6 months ago i taught myself to vibe code and honestly haven't looked back. I'm still learning something new every single day.
As a measure of the impact of vibe coding and the need to focus on positioning, narrative, and marketing and distribution, I noticed that that 610 products were submitted to the Product Hunt leaderboard today, but only 16 were featured which is less than 3%.
The previous high was just over 500 products in December.
