But the real costs often hide in the background- compute burn, idle tokens, redundant calls, or that temporary caching fix that quietly eats your budget.
I have launched on PH twice but before launching, I always prefer to share the product with at least 20 potential users over DM. The goal is to get early feedback and testimonials. This helps me understand what s working (or not) in the copy, design, offer, value proposition, etc. Based on those early insights, I iterate quickly and it could be small tweaks or full rewrites, depending on what people are saying.
To make it easy for them to say yes and share feedback, I create a no-brainer offer (like 70 90% discount) and DM potential users on X asking for feedback. What s your pre launch strategy for collecting feedback and improving your product before launching on PH? P.S. Here s a sample DM I use to get early feedback for Boringlaunch: Hey [User Name]
We ve just launched (product name) for [Industry/Category/Domain/Target Audience]
I graduated 4 years ago, and I had the opportunity to go on to a PhD, but I gave up on that option.
Instead, I chose the "real world".
Many public universities in my country offer free tuition, while in the US tuition is very high, and people take out student loans that take decades to pay off.
Hello, Product Hunt! I vote for "marketing is more important!" Recently, building has become really easy with the help of AI agents and tools like Cursor(thx Ai). I think the time and money needed to create a good product have significantly decreased thanks to various SaaS programs. However, I still don t have any references to introduce to you ( ). I feel like I ve neglected marketing, which is more important than making the product. (Please tell me this is the real reason...) Especially for indie makers like me, marketing is the hardest part (I wish someone could do it for me! ). Making a good product and promoting it are both important, and it s a pointless debate. Still, making vs. marketing? What do you all think? And if there are any cost-free ways for indie marketers or beginner marketers to try out, could you let me know?
Forget the pitch deck for a second. This is about grabbing attention fast. Share your startup in five words or less. The goal is to be clear, clever, or just bold enough to make people stop scrolling. Who knows, it could be a good marketing exercise
Forget the pitch deck for a second. This is about grabbing attention fast. Share your startup in five words or less. The goal is to be clear, clever, or just bold enough to make people stop scrolling. Who knows, it could be a good marketing exercise
I just started solo dev last year and have been trying to keep all early prototype projects low budget. I personally build in a serverless way on @AWS and pay only for what I use (<$1 per month). I'm curious what do you all use for low-budget development? Maybe I can find even cheaper build stack from you guys lol :)
For those who haven't tried it yet it's a new feature in GPT-4o that lets the chatbot proactively message you at scheduled times. Just type something like "Remind me to check my email tomorrow at 10 am," and it will set the reminder for you automatically. When the time comes, you'll get a push notification or an email with the message.
Me and my friend are working on an app in our free time, but before we write a single line of code, we want to see if people would actually use it.
So, I ve created a Questionnaire in Google Form along with explaining what the app does, so can you also fill this form for me ? And probably share it with people you trust would fill this form even if it s just 2-3 people, it would be great!
