I analyzed why 34 products that hit #1 on PH never made $1k MRR. And im lowkey disturbed
​​ok so weird backstory - ive been building products for startups for like 8 years now and i got obsessed with this question: why do products that KILL IT on product hunt just... die? like were talking #1 product of the day, 1000+ upvotes, features in newsletters, the whole thing. and then 6 months later? dead or making $300/month so i went full detective mode. pulled 34 products that hit #1...
Just quoted a client $43k to fix what AI built in 3 hours
Had a fascinating discovery call yesterday. Founder showed me their SaaS - built entirely with Cursor in one weekend. Stripe payments, auth, admin panel. Actually works great, they're at $11k MRR. Then they opened the codebase. Same Stripe webhook handler copy-pasted 8 times with tiny variations. Zero architecture. AI did exactly what it was told - perfectly isolated features that never talk to...





