Shawn Frank

First post here. Been browsing Product Hunt for a while without an account and finally made one.

Small frustration. So many products won't let you see anything until you make an account. No demo, no screenshots of the actual interface, no way to poke around. Just a signup form and a promise.

Half the time I sign up, look around for two minutes, and realize it's not for me. Now they have my email and I have nothing. I've started just closing the tab when signup is the first step, even if the product looked interesting.

Wanted to know how other people deal with this. Will you sign up to try something you're on the fence about, or does that immediately kill it for you? And has a product ever won you over with just a good demo, no account needed?

First post here. Been browsing Product Hunt for a while without an account and finally made one.

Honest question about my own behavior. I upvote things way more than I try them. Something looks interesting, I hit the arrow, feel like I participated, and move on. I couldn't tell you the last thing I upvoted and then actually signed up for.

It's not that upvoting is bad. It's just that it's become this frictionless thing I do while scrolling, and it has almost nothing to do with whether I'd use the product. Which makes me wonder what the upvote even means to me at this point.

Do you upvote things you'd actually use, or do you upvote to signal "this looks cool" and move on? And has anyone here found a product because of the upvote count specifically, or do you ignore the numbers entirely?

First post here. Been browsing Product Hunt for a while without an account and finally made one.

I keep noticing apps adding an AI button to something that didn't need one. A calendar app with "AI scheduling." A to-do list with "AI prioritization." A notes app with "AI summaries." Most of the time I poke at it once, it does something vaguely fine, and then I go back to using the app exactly the way I did before. The button just sits there.

I'm not against AI features. Some of them are genuinely good and I use them. But there's a difference between a tool that was built around it and a tool that stuck a chat box on top because it was trendy. From the listing alone, those two look identical.

Curious if anyone else feels this. What's an AI feature you actually use regularly, versus one you tried once and forgot about? And does a listing mentioning AI make you more likely to try something, or less at this point?