Shivam Kushwaha

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Hey, I’m Shivam šŸ‘‹ I help AI and SaaS founders launch their products and reach more people through simple marketing, content, and social media. I’m always happy to meet founders, discover new products, and learn from the community

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  • Coldlineai
    ColdlineaiTurn cold prospects into hot leads with AI-powered pitches
    Sep 2026
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    Joined Product HuntMay 6th, 2026

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How do you get your first users to trust a new SaaS?

When a product is new, people don t have much reason to trust it yet

There are no big reviews, no long track record, and sometimes not even a proper case study

Even if the product solves a real problem, people may hesitate before signing up or paying

I think earning trust early is just as important as getting attention

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14h ago

How do you keep internal ops from turning into total chaos as your team grows?

Hey PH! I m Tallha, a Business Operations Specialist.

Behind the scenes, I spend most of my time looking at how work gets done fixing broken workflows, cutting out manual steps, and trying to keep things organized.

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14h ago

Is the engineering overhead of self-hosting open-source LLMs worth the API savings?

Looking at the raw per-token math renting an A10G or L4 on AWS/Vultr looks way cheaper than paying per token to OpenAI at scale. What I'm worried about is the hidden time sink vLLM crashes prompt tuning across model updates latency optimization load balancing and keeping up with new quantization releases. As a solo founder my time is already stretched thin. Did switching to self-hosted models actually save you net money or did the extra dev/maintenance hours wipe out any hosting savings?

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