Matthew @ Sapling

It's a whole new world of stealing information. I'll say that as a business owner, I would aggressively fight against a company trying to steal my data. That said, didn't Anthropic get their data through some questionable methods (scraping Reddit for example)? I know they settled a suit last year with content owners.

Isn't Clawd just like Cowork? I've only been mildly impressed with agents. One goal of any founder is to find people to trust their reputation to and let those people grow and make mistakes with your name on the door. Finding the right people is make or break. Finding an AI agent is kinda the same thing. You're trusting it with your name/brand and resources. So far I can't say I've been...

Marketing! And I stink at it. Have a product I've built with Zero users. I've tried Instantly, Apollo, n8n, Apify, to get interest and it hasn't been effective. I'm a list guy so if anyone has a step by step plan to execute I'd love it!

A dev who has a long history of building product but maybe hasn't kept up with the latest updates can get a massive boost from CC. I've personally "written" so much code in the past 6 months by using CC to write the logic and then have an "eyes-on" review from myself to find glaring issues or to help debug with CC support. I've been a web dev since 1995 and would consider myself a mid-level...

Love this. Trying to build a presence on a few places like LI, PH and possibly reddit. Will be interesting to see where this goes for you.

Sam knows the runway is coming to an end and if he doesn't show some path to profitability, he's toast. OpenAI and Anthrophic have the challenge that AI is their only game. Unlike Google, Meta, Microsoft that have numerous revenue engines, these two have to prove that people will pay purely for AI tools. I think (hope) Anthropic has a winning plan to be profitable by 2030 but they are in a...

Ha, hadn't thought of that. While I'd love a badge, the goal is eyeballs on the product. Doing the work of notifying people on LI, X, Bluesky, etc is best I think.

Thanks for this post. I'm at the point of my product where it's time to get busy with acquisition.

Very helpful. I'm an introverted founder and I have been working hard for the past 6 months to post daily on a few of my favorite places. I won't let AI write my posts but I do use AI to surface articles and concepts that gives me ideas and considerations. I like the "last" things idea. That will help "unstick" me.

This will have to be a major hit to OpenAI. As a consumer brand, Apple would have been a great fit for OpenAI.

There must be an incredible sense of loyalty to the people in order to endure that schedule. When I was younger I was happy to put my head down on a project but the people that were around me was the glue. Hopefully for anyone in this cycle, they are building some life-long friendships that will persist after the grind.

This is really important for all makers to read. Speaking as an "ideas person", my kryptonite is the last 10% of a project. But, this is where it separates projects and their success IMO. I needed this reminder so my launch/re-launch is more complete. If I want to know why I have no views, look at the launch and materials.

For me, some of my failed projects were due to lack of marketing skills. I'm a lousy promoter. If sharing a failed project got someone to perk up and say "whoa, you just need some awareness and I can help." it might save a failed project and create revenue for more people.

I bet it happens. It would be a small gain for OpenAI and their need for more data to digest into their LLMs. Unlike Google that powers so many data generators, OpenAI needs to find new outlets. That said, it would probably hurt the Pinterest user base because how could you trust an AI company to keep content on the platform human generated?

More updates to Sapling. We now offer Veo generated content based on prompts and a style chooser. To keep things from getting weird, we limit generated video to animation - non photorealistic formats. Coming soon, push notices for new content and multiple campaign manager. Sapling has been a fully vibed project based on a legacy platform created in 2012. It has been a year-long learning...

Huge update at Sapling.mobi. We are now focused on the use of video to promote fundraising. Just like swiping through an Instagram feed, you can add as many videos as you like to promote your charity. Less text and much more video! Looking for feedback for Sapling. It feels like with all the consolidation of platforms, nonprofits need something simple and quick to raise money.

This is a great question. So many free tiers that you build up a workflow from a template in n8n that has perplexity and you just get the free license. But, if you build something substantial then you're into a paid account. TL;DR too many options and licenses. I use the following tools consistently: OpenAI (API and Chat) Claude Gemini n8n Pinecone Google Search API Google Workplace Descript...

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I’m Matt, founder of Sapling. I built this for the small but mighty nonprofits that often get overlooked by complex or expensive fundraising platforms. After 20+ years in nonprofit tech (I also run ClickBid), I kept seeing the same problem: early-stage 501(c)(3)s — sometimes with zero staff — struggling to run basic fundraisers without hiring help or battling software. So I...