Matt Brattin

Hey Product Hunt! I'm Matt, PE-backed SaaS CFO turned war-wager against the chaos of sales commissions. I spent nearly 15 years building and administering commission plans in the trenches of corporate finance and finally said "enough is enough" and built Siplify. Why I built it: The playing field is messy. A staggering 69% of businesses still wrestle with commissions in precarious spreadsheets....

1) How do you handle email marketing and possible collaboration with influencers who own a newsletter for distribution? If you are open to sharing what tactic helped you the most, I will be thankful. I've got a newsletter of around 16k and I'll sometimes swap newsletter stories with others who also have a newsletter or folks who I want to promote. I've not pushed any paid collabs yet as I've...

I'm not a dev, but I can tell you how I approached this as I migrated from Bolt to something more scalable for me. I built out what I considered to be a pretty robust prototype within Bolt including a Stripe integration for payment gateway, Supabase backend with Github and Netlify for code and deployments. I was also using Resend for email automations. I started getting "project too big" flags...

There are a lot of businesses out there that do really well under the radar, so it's hard to say that one could not build a business without being known online. But, having an audience should help so long as the audience you've curated is also your ICP. I've been building a personal brand that's morphed into most of my following knowing me for Microsoft Excel. So, while I've got a decent...

Many people think "build in public" is some secret weapon to blow up early. That's rarely the case and you have to be doing it for the right reasons in order to have any chance of it yielding results for you. For me, it boils down to discipline, accountability, and feedback. Like others have said, even if it feels like you're talking into the void, knowing you've "said it out loud" somewhere...

In order to build a great solution (especially in B2B SaaS), corporate experience is incredibly valuable, if not essential. Corporate life teaches you things you can't easily learn elsewhere: discipline, working under pressure, hitting deadlines, and crucially, understanding real-world business problems that people are willing to pay to solve. Sure, there are always examples of young founders...