AI is a great, cheap foundation we can all agree on that (depending on token usage, of course).

When you re building your first product, and you re not sure if it will work and earn money, the obvious goal is to keep costs as low as possible and avoid burning money early on.

How are you covering the monthly costs of building your B2C or B2B startup? The virtual office, phone service, domain hosting, Supabase or Firebase, and other recurring expenses add up. How do you fund these odds and ends, and what cost-saving hacks help you get the most bang for your proverbial buck before revenue starts coming in?

I have two startups, so the overhead can be overwhelming. Still, I decided long ago that it was in my best financial interest to focus primarily on my startup needs and find free workarounds for my wants. For example, Canva is a low-cost design service, but I opted for a free Affinity account for most of my immediate needs. It requires more manual labor and a bit of design skill, but I m saving $15-$20/month. It s minimal, but I would rather spend that $20/month on Resend for my email needs than on design extras.
How are you managing?

Vokal got #2 product of the day and #7 of the week, and we now have 100+ signups from startups and teams. In general, people seem excited to try it out to up-level their teams to agent native.

Now I m trying to figure out the next step: how do we scale this beyond manual founder-led work?

I ve been writing posts, sharing content, and doing outreach manually, but it s starting to feel like a constant drain and a bottleneck. I ve been looking into tools like HubSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Apollo, and Clay.

For people who have used any of these: what has your experience been? Which ones are actually worth it at an early stage?

Hi PH! New here, and I'd love to see what you're all building

I'm a builder and marketer, so I get equally excited about a clever product and a clever way to launch it.

Hey all!

Quick question for founders and indie hackers: what's slowing you down when you're actually building something new?

Hey PH community

We just launched Startup Studio today.

We re happy @Mercury customers here at Product Hunt. We previously used SVB (I ve used them at other startups as well), but the interface was clunky, and the bureaucratic process was frustrating so we switched to Mercury and couldn t be happier!

Mercury recently introduced expense and reimbursement features. While it may not have all the bells and whistles and detailed permissioning of longer-established options like @Brex , it meets our current needs.

Hey fellow builders!

I m a solopreneur currently launching my first SaaS (Aurexa), and I ll be building multiple small apps/tools in the future all revenue-generating.

Right now I m setting up Stripe for payments and I m wondering:

How do YOU structure your Stripe account(s)?

Let s help the next wave avoid mistakes

What would you tell a founder who just got their incorporation docs and opened a bank account?

Supabase recently surveyed over 2,000 startup founders and builders to uncover what's powering modern startups: tech stacks, GTM, and approach to AI.

See full report here

We ve been talking to dozens of global founders launching Delaware C-Corps and they re often left in the dark on U.S. tax and compliance.

Curious how many folks here are in that same boat? What s been the hardest part?

No ERP. No full-time ops lead. No perfect processes.

Just Notion docs, Google Sheets, Slack chaos and a growing to-do list.

You re hiring. Selling. Delivering. Building.