Mateo Rossi

When I started building, I used my own tool all the time. That was kind of the whole reason I made it. I had a problem, nothing out there fixed it the way I wanted, so I built something.

But lately I ve noticed something.

Most of my time now goes into fixing bugs, answering emails, thinking about pricing, writing posts... and I barely use the product the way a normal user would anymore. I open it to test things, not to actually get stuff done with it.

And I m not sure if that s a problem or just what happens as things grow.

I joined Product Hunt in September, so it has been a little over a month. I was looking for a place to be active when launching products in English-speaking markets, and while I knew the name, I had never actually used it.

I have bought over 200 products on AppSumo, and some of them showed their Product Hunt ranking. That's how I knew of it.

For the past month I've been watching the products that launch here and the people who are active in the forums. From what I can see, there are a few ways to make a launch go well:

I recently built a small PDF editor for myself. I wanted something free that I could open in the browser whenever I needed it.

With AI, I ll just build my own seems like a reasonable option for more of these small problems. Especially when you only need a few features and the tool only has to fit the way you work.

I suspect a lot of useful AI-built software will end up as something someone keeps in their bookmarks and uses every week, without ever trying to turn it into a business.

I m hosting the editor on Inquir Compute, the platform I m building for apps, databases and background jobs. We re getting close to launch, and I d like to hear about the things people are building for themselves.