In the past, my thoughts were often stuck in small, daily things like:
Is there any drama on Facebook today?
Did anyone like my story?
Did my crush drop any hints?
Is anyone asking me out today?
Does my best friend have new stories to tell me?

Looking back, I can t help but laugh at myself. None of these thoughts really helped me grow, yet they always gave me that emotional, butterfly-in-the-stomach feeling.

Everything started to change when I entered a phase of I don t even know who I am.
And that s when I began searching for real answers.

My name is Marta, I'm a designer (and marketing manager and cofounder and everything that I must be in order to launch a product) and, to be fair, I'm as unsure about what I'm writing as someone new to Product Hunt would be. But that doesn't make me any less the most excited person in the world (at least my world), so here I am, presenting myself as if I'm the new girl in the class, ready to hear about all the gossip and knowledge you've been absorbing while I wasn't here.

In the meantime, I'm going to let you know that soon I'll present my (mine and my partner's) product: a link-to-Shopify-store generator with the right amount of personalization to help you launch your store fast, easy, and with top-notch content.

See you around here!

I'm in the back half of my career, the first half spent in sales-related roles and Sales/CS leadership. I was always a technical person, but never a developer or engineer. Then AI hit, I leaned in hard, knowing that this was a race to learn before other people figured things out. Long story short, AI lowered the developer/engineer bar, and I'm now head of AI Innovation at my company and loving it. Who knows where this leads, but I'm loving getting paid to play with AI and build Innovation plays as my full-time job.

We re getting ready for our second Product Hunt launch on Jan 31, and a post by @busmark_w_nika got me thinking.

What to do (that we didn't do the first time):

• Plan your launch. What does it mean?

  • Write down everything you need to do before you launch.

  • Cleaning your copy

  • Your product images

  • Your product video (demo under 60 seconds if you can)

  • For our first launch, we didn't do anything. Even though we got 2nd Product of the Day, I would not recommend others to leave it to their luck. Plan and maximize your chances of success.

• Keep it simple, stupid.

  • Don't overcomplicate your page with lots of marketing language.

  • Simplicity, clean product screenshots, and clear language.

  • I think this is the single most important thing to take into account when launching, and why we probably did so well on our first launch.

    • Ask yourself: Does the tagline make sense? Will others understand what the product does and what it is in under 10 seconds?

    • For us at @Pretty Prompt: Grammarly for prompting. (Grammarly = it is an extension.) Improve prompts in one click. (super clear what it does).

    • You can straight away visualise how you might use the product and what it will do for you.

• Focus on your strengths.

  • Don't give everything you got in one go.

  • Earn the right for people to read and scroll down. Read and scroll down.

  • Save some stuff for your pinned post.

  • People have a short attention span.

  • Hook people on your most important feature, showcase it front and centre, don't give me everything together cos I'll forget, and also I'll get lost.

  • For us at @Pretty Prompt: Improve your prompts in one click. Works inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Lovable, and more.

  • Even though you have about 10 other features on Pretty Prompt, we don't talk about them right in the beginning; we just feature that one "killer feature" and let users dive deeper afterwards.

• Product assets = show, don't tell.

  • Your images and video should be about your product.

  • Don't make it marketing-heavy. Make it product-heavy.

  • Show me what the product does, don't tell me about it.

  • For us: 60-second demo video actually using the tool. Screenshots of the top features (Improve - Refine - Save - History). Not fancy Figma designs, I mean screenshots of the actual product.

  • If you get big like Notion, Cursor, Claude, etc. you may also be able to add a more human video of you talking about the product, or new functionality, your story, etc. But for the majority, just show your product, and let the product win.

• Learn from others.

  • Though no two products or launches are the same, you can learn from others and pick the best things that fit your own product.

  • Checkout this post by @fmerian on "The Cursor Way to Launch". Great tips.

• Warm up the Audience.

  • Don't just rely on your followers.

  • Use as many channels as possible to maximise the reach and get people excited about your launch, even before you launch.

  • If you do this step well, the launch is just 50% of the job, and you're already a step ahead of most.

  • For us: I did a community post, Substack one, LinkedIn one, Slack one. We'll be recording a founder video too. I want it to be as human as possible; people buy into people.

Wordware tends to appeal to people who want more control over how AI logic flows through their work. Less magic, more intention.

If Wordware is something you rely on, share how you are using it. What workflow did you build that felt worth keeping?

Yesterday, I had an unpleasant experience. For a few minutes, I lost my LinkedIn community of several thousand people (TL;DR: I was falsely accused of using suspicious software).

Fortunately, I got my account back but it was a strong reminder that we don t own platforms, nor our profiles on them.

As Techcrunch mentioned... OpenAI will start testing targeted ads in ChatGPT for free, and $8/month Go users in the U.S., while higher-tier subscriptions remain ad-free.

Ads will appear at the bottom of conversations, can be dismissed, and won t influence ChatGPT s answers or involve selling user data. The move aims to generate revenue while keeping free access, and may also encourage some users to upgrade to paid tiers.

Polyglotta started as a multilingual translator, but it s becoming something broader: a language-first AI companion for people who think across languages. Instead of translating A B , Polyglotta is built around seeing meaning across many languages at once so you can notice what shifts, what stays, and what gets lost in between.

Here s what s new (and why it matters): You can now translate across a bigger set of languages, with an experience designed for multilingual context rather than one-pair-at-a-time translation. Polyglotta supports 70+ languages, multilingual context, and custom-optimized AI models aimed at more accurate, context-aware results.
There s also a clearer split between two ways of using the app: Translate mode for fast multi-target translations, and Ask mode when you want help understanding what s going on (explanations, examples, nuance).
Audio is a first-class feature now, too. Membership includes high-quality audio pronunciations, so you can read, hear, and internalize phrases not just copy/paste them.
Probably the most Polyglotta change: translations aren t treated as final answers. Each translation can become a place to refine meaning with real people threads for feedback, context, and improvements so the app gets smarter through collective input. If something feels off, the workflow is simple: downvote, comment, and help steer it toward something more natural.
And if you want to go deeper with others, the community space is set up like a collaborative workshop: share feedback, spot weird translations, test ideas, and learn from each other s language insights.
If you haven t tried Polyglotta in a while, the easiest way to feel the change is: pick a phrase you care about, translate it into a handful of languages, then switch to Ask mode and interrogate the why behind the differences.

Since I haven't been able to meet my work goals very well in the last few quarters, I now plan to approach them more systematically and not push myself too hard on work goals, as that ultimately led to problems that made my plan less sustainable.

So here is my structure and list: