zhang zea

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fresh grad, first job, building on the side ✦ vibe coding @onmod with Cursor after hours 🌙 figuring it all out in public ✦

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  • ON MOD
    ON MODPin a feeling to a place. Your AI pet remembers it.
    Mar 2026
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    Joined Product HuntFebruary 27th, 2025

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Bitgrainp/bitgrain

2mo ago

What has been your craziest experience during product launches?

I'll go first,
During the launch of @Bitgrain , I thought maybe some 10 20 people might upvote or it can be even lesser, Surprisingly it got featured and the numbers went up crazy! I got mails from people who loved the product. It was unexpected but loved it!
btw do see @Bitgrain : )

2mo ago

Build your brand before your product, or launch first and reveal yourself later?

  1. I've always been on the personal brand side. More and more founders are building it now (sometimes even before the product is ready while it's still in development, before seed fundraising). The CEO builds their position so the product sells more easily at the official launch.

  2. But I have experience with people who built the product, scaled it, and only then did we discover who was behind it.

Honestly, with the first approach, I'd be concerned that people invest more in me as a person than in the product. People would idealise the founder and overlook the product's flaws (which could hurt development and constructive feedback).

+ I noticed the most common mistake that many people who started building a personal brand first, connected their product to their personal accounts (emails, social media, etc.) and started having a problem selling these things, because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles.

3 new grads who couldn't stop taking photos but hated posting them — so we built this

We graduated last year. Three of us, same team, first jobs.

We all had camera rolls with thousands of photos. We all posted maybe twice a year.

The gap bothered us. Not because we wanted more likes but because somewhere between taking the photo and hitting share, something got lost. The feeling. The reason you took it.

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