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Let's talk about that uninvited guest that shows up around month 3 of building your startup. You know the one. You started with fire in your belly, convinced you're building the next big thing. Then slowly, quietly, it creeps in:

"Who even needs this?"

Hey Product Hunt community!

Quick question that's been on my mind: When your free trial ends, which companies have handled the transition gracefully?

I just read that Poland wants to launch a pilot project of a 4-day work week from January 2026 (although a 4-hour work week would sound better).

I want to ask if any of you in your company have tried this concept of a shorter work week, and how it has affected the results of your employees and the company?

In a time when big corporations are overpaying for their job offers just to steal the best talent from another big company, and in an era where everyone can build their own startup, there will always be room for people who prefer to join a team and work on something (in the future) big.

How would you find these promising talents?

Not sure if this is a wild take, but

What if platforms like LinkedIn started labeling AI-written posts? Not to shame them.

Just to give people choice.

Some want clean, fast, optimized content. Others want messier, human, original stuff...

I've been pretty impressed at the amount of products people (including myself) have been able to create which got me curious... do vibe coders or AI-primary builders have a place in a company or team?
My thinking is the more technically adept would work on the core-focus while vibecoders can assist with other tasks that shouldn't be the main devs focus...like a potential feature add, minor changes, or even exploring different ways of modifying the existing product.
I'm curious what you all think, would you hire a vibe coder?

I've been pretty impressed at the amount of products people (including myself) have been able to create which got me curious... do vibe coders or AI-primary builders have a place in a company or team?
My thinking is the more technically adept would work on the core-focus while vibecoders can assist with other tasks that shouldn't be the main devs focus...like a potential feature add, minor changes, or even exploring different ways of modifying the existing product.
I'm curious what you all think, would you hire a vibe coder?

Working and being productive aren t the same thing.

We often sit in front of the laptop for hours, but between context switching, notifications, and tiny distractions.... we barely get real work done.

Until now marketers have had to guess what's a normal CPC, CPM or CTR in their niche. There's no real public information available.
So we decided to fix this.
Here's our public free Facebook Ads benchmarking tool.

It's based on real data, not some marketer's best guess from 2017.
It's built on an anonymized data set of $2B+ of Facebook Ads ad spend. All data is fully aggregated and anonymized
You can currently select CPC, CPM or CTR. And slice the data by industry, campaign type and country.

Is your CPM spike an industry-wide trend?

Is your CTR truly exceptional or just average for your vertical?

After hours of reading best practices, crafting the perfect assets and assembling what felt like a bulletproof plan, we were ready to launch on Product Hunt. We worked so hard and genuinely believed we d wake up to thousands of sign ups and the Product of the Day badge.

The reality was very different. We saw a tiny boost in sign ups, got stuck at around 200 upvotes, and to top it off, finished below a food blender.

2.5 years ago, I quit my job with no backup plan. Today, I'm making a living from Tern, the AI travel planner I built in my bedroom. Here's the raw, unfiltered story of how it happened:

Numbers, Because Product Hunt Loves Data

• 12,000+ trips planned

• Paying customers from 9 countries (started monetizing 2 months ago, still free for most users)

• Users from 120 countries

• 5/5 stars on Product Hunt (and 1 of the 20 products hunted by CEO @rajiv_ayyangar )

• $0 spent on marketing

• 14-hour days, 7 days/week in the beginning

• 400+ updates shipped

I would like to warn you in advance that I do not want to offend any culture or country with this post. It only demonstrates observations from my own experience.

6 months ago, I had a conversation with a friend and we got to the topic of money.

A few of us at Product Hunt are putting on our most brutally honest (but helpful!) hats and roasting landing pages for the next two days. Want in? Drop your link below, and we ll give you real, no-BS feedback on:

Clarity Does your message make sense or sound like corporate soup?
Calls to Action Do we feel compelled to click, or just leave?
Design & UX Smooth experience or rage quit territory?
Anything else Tell us what you want feedback on.

Today I read this message:
Instagram has just added the ability to write comments with AI.

A similar option LinkedIn has (it offers pre-written recommended comments like "Congratulations")

I m starting to think most SaaS products are on borrowed time. With AI getting smarter every day, it s poised to swallow up their use cases. AI will learn to do what SaaS tools do and at some point it will be easier for the user just to use the AI. I recently saw a tweet claiming that by next year, 90% of code will be AI-generated. If development costs are plummeting to zero, why would anyone pay for a traditional SaaS subscription, when his favourite AI can do the same?

Do you see it the same way? I d love to hear your take.

From testing new products, I've come to several conclusions and possibly also identified mistakes that product creators make when launching them.

Whenever you want to attract your first testers (especially those who are well-known), try first to build up your credibility.