Oscar Bennett's profile on Product Hunt

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The Data Centre vendor market is growing fast, but commercial hiring hasn’t kept pace. Most recruiters either don’t understand the sector or rely on the same visible talent pool everyone else is fishing in. I built teambuild’s data centre specialism specifically to fix that: Placing Sales Director, VP Sales, CCO, and Commercial Director-level leaders across the vendor supply chain; liquid cooling, power infrastructure, electrical components, and beyond — across the UK and EMEA. My background is in construction supply chain recruitment, which turns out to be unusually good preparation. Long sales cycles, complex B2B procurement, technical buyers, relationship-led deal-making — the commercial DNA is near-identical.

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5d ago

How long should founders keep chasing customers who love the product but never actually pay?

We started getting positive feedback from potential customers. They joined demos explored the product requested features and told us how useful it could be for their teams. The problem was that very few moved forward with a purchase. At first we treated every interested lead as a potential customer. Eventually we realized that attention and genuine buying intent are two very different things. For founders selling B2B products what signals help you distinguish serious buyers from people who are simply interested? When do you stop following up and focus on better opportunities?

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10d ago

What did AI make too easy for you, and what do you wish you'd kept doing by hand?

Every shortcut removes a bit of friction, and some of that friction was doing a job. I'd like to hear which parts of your workflow you handed over and which you took back.

When a tool makes something easy, you rarely notice what the difficulty used to give you. Writing a first draft by hand forced me to decide what I actually thought. Reading user feedback line by line made me notice phrasing that a summary flattens. Writing a spec from scratch was slow, and the slowness was where I found the holes.

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17d ago

Why do users ask for features they end up never using?

Our most requested feature from feedback forms took us three weeks to build and ship. We launched it with an announcement email and in app banner but less than 5% of active users have touched it since.

It was a good reminder that what users say they want in a survey often differs from what actually fits into their daily habits.

How do you validate feature requests before committing engineering time to build them?