Christopher Miller

Serious question with a stupid premise.

I've never had a good product idea while sitting at my desk, staring at the screen, trying to have one. They show up in the dumbest places in the shower, on the toilet, or at 3am when I've decided sleeping is the priority.

Mine came while I was arguing with an AI writing tool at 2am. It kept giving me citations that looked perfect and pointed to papers that were never published. I closed the laptop, went to bed, and couldn't sleep because I kept thinking "someone should just make it cite only what I actually gave it."

Then I spent a year building that.

That title is deliberately dramatic but is it wrong?

I m a scientist who codes as a hobby. In a few weeks, with AI, I ve built more usable web tools than I once imagined creating in years.

And I m not special. Thousands of new websites, calculators, apps and micro-SaaS products now appear for every imaginable problem.

If anyone can turn an idea into software before lunch, building is no longer the barrier. Soon, why maintain old software when an agent can simply rebuild it?

The answer depends on what you want to achieve.

• If you want to stay top of mind for a constantly growing audience and increase visibility, post every day.

• If you want to amplify your launch, focus on the period before, during, and after the launch.

  Before the launch, I would start with enough time in advance, around one month before, and I would personally post approximately (at least) twice a week.

• But I think that in general, if you want to be visible within the forums, twice a week is bearable.