Rian Robertson

Hey Product Hunt, I'm Victoria.

My day job is technical escalation. I've spent years working inside platforms like Shopify and Thinkific figuring out why things break, validating bugs, and translating what's actually happening into something leadership can understand and act on.

That work gave me a pretty clear view of something that doesn't get talked about enough. When a platform issue or an internal tool issue goes unresolved and the vendor isn't moving, nobody really knows what to do. Push harder? Build a workaround and move on? Start looking at other options? Teams just wing it every single time and absorb the cost without ever creating the necessary report for internal use or discussing next steps. Tracking issues of internal tools you engage other vendors to support is crucial.

That bothered me enough that I eventually built something about it.

Hi all, looking forward to engaging with this community. I'm a designer with a technical background but have never been a coder. I was recently convinced by a developer friend that AI assisted coding was good enough now to enable me to actually build. After testing with a series of personal tools, then a proof of concept iOS app, it was clear my friend was right. I now have an outlet for all the pent up creative ideas in my head. Here goes shot number 1.

Over the past 4 weeks, I built and launched Polaris (web) and now the iOS app version is available.

We noticed something that kept bothering us: finding the right place to eat had somehow gotten harder, not easier.

Every recommendation platform had quietly been gamed, restaurants paying for placement, reviews written by agencies, "best of" lists recycled year after year. Locals knew it. Visitors just got burned.

So instead of building another app, we built Yenta, an AI friend on WhatsApp. You text your vibe ("rooftop, something buzzing, not a tourist trap"), and it responds like a friend who actually knows the city.

We go live May 15th. Waitlist is open at https://tr.ee/gOPXT4QG7R
A couple of things we're genuinely wrestling with would love to hear from this community: