In a time when everyone is sharing their 6-figure MRRs from their businesses, it s sometimes worth taking a look back at how we started (and maybe even finding joy in the little things). :-)

Do you still remember the moment you received your first online payment?

During the week, I receive a lot of questions about Product Hunt, and some of them are very frequent. I thought I would post the most frequent ones here, and a possible answer to them.

Is it worth having a hunter?

If the hunter has a large follower base, a strong community, and a good reputation (and your product is also good, i.e. it will be featured): YES, IT IS WORTH HAVING A HUNTER. It will multiply your visibility and success

So here are 3 problems that I'm working to solve in the development of our agentic systems.
Any help would be truly appreciated.
1) How to prevent the agent from leaving the loop in between tool calls, saying it's "going to move on to the next step", or to ask the user for confirmation.

2) How to make the agent manage it's tokens autonomously and intelligently, by identifying and discarding messages or context that are no longer relevant.

(Important in particular for when there's this one gigantic piece of content among the messages that keeps getting sent back in each new API call, making the token count grow exponentially)

- One path that I'm exploring is to have the one task or step in a different agent, so the main agent calls the agent that executes this task, so the context stays separate.

Whenever I click through to the social media profiles of the makers in the product hunt community, I find that they are quite versatile and are involved in things other than just business.

What other skills do you have besides your work skills?

Whether it's employing people with disabilities or making products more accessible, I ve been noticing efforts by major companies to support inclusion.

For example:

Hey everyone,

I m Alex, solo maker of CoLaunchly, and yesterday I launched it on Product Hunt for the very first time.

I didn t expect much. My only goal was to get into the top 10.

When you're a 9-5 employee, it's relatively easy to determine when your work starts and ends.

But what about when you work for yourself?

Single people probably have no boundaries in this, but a completely different scenario occurs when you have a family.

AI adoption among legal professionals surged from just 19% in 2023 to 79% in 2024.

The legal sector, notoriously manual and inefficient, is one of the ripest industries for AI disruption. However, it's also one of the hardest. "AI has to meet a higher bar to be commercially viable in legal," says Ethan. "That's why tools have taken longer to hit the market."

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It's simple. Drop your next big idea and get some brutally honest but hopefully valuable feedback. The rules are:

• Drop your idea, you don't have to go super in depth but give a sentence or two about what it is and does.

• Get roasted, duh

• Roast someone else's.

That way we create a cycle of feedback

What tools make your work processes smooth while keeping you sane?

[Solutions for maintaining health are also welcome since your work results depend on your well-being and energy management.]

I am a marketer, and here are my go-to apps/tools:

Hi Hunters!
I m doing my first real launch soon, i m pretty new to startups world even if i m working as a programmer for quite a while and i joined multiple startups along the way, being the founder of it is much much different.
As the title says, do you got any advices? Do s and don t?
Waiting for your thoughts.
Thanks!

This is a small test of your financial literacy and entrepreneurial mindset. :)

The art is mostly about making the most of the least, so share your approach to situations where you have to be creative.

We're at a point in our startup where we need to do cold emails. The problem is, who, who do I send it to? How do I find these people? I want to be quite specific. Yesterday we sat down for hours researching a law firm, figuring out what they do and who to contact that would be most appropriate. We then wrote the email. Had it reviewed again tomorrow, made another edit and then finally sent it.

I've heard YC talks and one of them mentioned only 2% of companies actually willing to work with a startup. I want to get at this number to make it effective.

Currently we are running google ads and started with reddit too. There are reddit communities that would exactly make sense to interact with but building Karma is a full time job. Ads it is there.

I need to post more in Slack and Discord communities. They allow promotion is certain threads. Make it very easy for us to be relevant and respectful.

So recently we've been experimenting with semantic indexing in our product. So far it's going great, such a powerful tool.

For context, we've been doing tests with codebases (obvious, I know).

3 weeks ago, we discussed the topic of how AI affects your work.

After seeing yesterday s Instagram post by Morning Brew, I ve decided to change the questions.

According to the post, even a major player like Duolingo is looking to replace contractors and employees with AI.