... forever. After 10 years too. No trial countdown. No "free for 90 days then surprise." No card needed to start . "But how? What's the business model?" Your agent runs on a small container on our infrastructure. costs us cents per free user per month. The free tier limits (100 tasks, daily crons, 1 agent) keep that cost predictable. Some free users eventually upgrade to pro when they outgrow the limits. $19/month from those users covers the free users ... ... your API usage). No gating basic features behind paywalls. free gets unlimited chat, smart context management, verified skills, Telegram, Slack. Same features as paid, just with usage limits. "What's actually different on paid then?" More tasks (unlimited vs

... goal: if you want raw eyeballs go Tue-Thu, but for a badge/ranking with a modest following a weekend can punch above its weight. Comment from Sabber Ahamed(@sabber_ahamed): @busmark_w_nika   @abdullah_javaid3  the invitation vs favor framing is the most useful line in this whole thread. i caught myself drafting DMs that were basically upvote asks in a nicer outfit. what actually worked was showing up in threads like this one for weeks with nothing ... ... limited testers. They gave us the first feedbacks for us to make the app better. After we didn't succeeded with a try on LinkedIn, where the feedback was nearly zero, we are on our way to find good alternatives

... good one and the real estate angle really hits differently. I can think of one thats exactly a mirror image of the founder - Tetris. Alexey Pajitnov created the actual game in the Soviet Union and didn't see a cent for years while Mirrorsoft, Atari, and Nintendo fought over who owned the licensing rights. Same "who built it vs

... Pixel-Level Geometry: Get the exact x/y coordinates of every SERP element (AI Overviews, snippets, ads) to see what users actually see. Automatic Refunds: If a search fails due to a server error, you don't pay a single cent. We are currently pre-100 signups/day and actively building in public. You can grab 10 free searches right now to test out the JSON payloads, completely card-free: https://apiserpent.com I d love to know: For those building SaaS ...

... utilizes temporary session IDs stashed in Redis during the 2FA challenge window to completely withhold Supabase auth tokens until the user is verified. We wanted a production-ready system that is robust, accessible, and lightweight without paying a single cent for third-party API networks on every login, and 10/10 end-to-end tests are officially passing live on production. If you want to support the project, see how it's evolving, or drop some feedback on our backend approach ...

... subscribers, then the crm stuff is just the natural next step for converting those into actual clients. positioning confusion usually comes from launching the new stuff loudly as its own pillar, not from the feature existing. just my 2 cents as someone else figuring out positioning solo ...

... position when I decided to go on my own. I had years of data at what works and what does not. Years of experience and intuition in understanding the market and building something that could sustain. I invested every cent I had and made it work, I did not give myself the option to fail. A huge risk which paid off probably because experience taught me and I had a lot to lose. I think for kids starting as early ...

... usually the big bills it's the "Money Leaks." Those tiny, invisible expenses like forgotten subscriptions, daily convenience fees, or impulse $5 purchases that add up to hundreds of dollars every month. When I finally tracked every cent for 30 days, I found out I was losing over $400 a month to things I didn't even care about! That s why I started building a system to find and plug these leaks. I m curious to hear from ...

... start looking for organic marketing channels. For organic growth, I optimized my ASO and turned to Reddit. In April, about 50 to 60 users from the US and Europe joined without me spending a single cent. Then, I decided to launch on Product Hunt on May 14th, which brought in 8 installs (from Canada, the US, Mexico, Russia, and Azerbaijan) and 4 registrations. Before all of this, I tried marketing on TikTok and LinkedIn, but I was targeting the Russian ...

... such low cost. Yes, I have already integrated it reddit and insta posts, those came out to be great too. Comment from Siddhant Gupta(@siddhant_gupta12): @olga_kargopolova  This is the insta post it created under 30 cents https://www.instagram.com/p/DXCr... ...

... that surprised me: the customers who complained about price the most during beta were almost never my actual ICP. The ones who saw real value barely flinched. Have you segmented the feedback by who matches your ideal customer profile vs. who doesn't? Comment from Hans Desjarlais(@ismaelyws): @ceciliatran  Yes, I did, and that's how I came up with my current pricing model. I do plan on testing different prices once I have more active users/customers. And honestly ... ... different budgets and stakes. It might be worth picking one and going deep rather than trying to serve both. My guess is SMB marketing teams feel the pain more acutely and have the budget to match. Just my two cents

... better if it s tied more directly to why it matters, like getting cited or driving inbound. Right now it sounds powerful, just slightly packed. Feels like simplifying the entry point would make it hit much faster. My two cents Comment from Ashraf Mahmoud(@amm8): I just starterd on Product Hunt. Not sure what I'm doing yet. But, I'm finalizing my next release and preparing for a launch. I built: A rolodex widget for your home screen apps ...

... over a week, the wider Product Hunt community has been chiming in with their two cents in the discussion about where to draw the line between which product features should be free and which should require payment. Just yesterday on X, a post started trending about a tool with 35,000+ users, but only just over 1,300 paying customers. The founder was asking the community for advice on how to increase conversions. Many people had a very straightforward opinion ...

... actually engage, upvote, comment, discover new. Rather than just a leaderboard of early joiners Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @oshylabs  I tried to show up at least at one launch as someone who gives 2 cents :) It is meaningful for me to contribute :) Comment from Arnold Oshenye(@oshylabs): @busmark_w_nika Yep! Days on platform is basically a seniority badge, not a behaviour signal. Activity at least means u showed up and did something. Though I'll admit ... ... doing any distribution yet still benefits from community and algorithmic support, randomization can help surface it, which is positive, but it also feels unfair to those who are putting in the work, so the impact is mixed. One alternative

... cents per user per session. at that point youre literally paying people to maybe convert later. Comment from Umair(@umairnadeem): one thing i dont see mentioned here is letting your actual infrastructure costs dictate the line. i run an automated video pipeline and the split became obvious once i tracked per-user costs. image generation is basically free at scale (fractions of a cent

... Premium: $300-500/mo The voiceover line item is where most channels overspend or underspend. Cheap voice = viewers click away. Expensive voice = margins disappear. What's your monthly spend on a faceless channel? And where do you splurge vs. cut corners? Comment from Praney Behl(@praney_behl): @umairnadeem   This is a good catch. I already have an internal project that uses Vois for the Voice narration and does exactly what you just mentioned. I manage ten YouTube channels ... ... generating your own visuals with AI instead of paying for stock. i run a faceless channel and my total visual cost per video is under $2. bulk generate 150-200 still images via an API (costs fractions of a cent

... whether the environment makes it feel possible. And honestly, for a lot of people, it doesn't, not because of time, but because the identity of "founder" leaves very little room for anything that slows you down. My 5 cents. Comment from Pierre (@pierrekr7): @busmark_w_nika  Honestly that fear is probably a sign you'd be a good partner. The people who never think about it are the ones who actually disappear into the work. I think ...

... plays a significant role in how products appear in Google search results. What surprised us was that AI assistants like ChatGPT were rarely citing Product Hunt in product recommendations. AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Gemini rely on reviews, alternative lists, and structured product information gathered across the web. Product Hunt is strong across all three. In theory, this should make Product Hunt a natural source for AI-driven product recommendations and comparisons. In practice, it was not happening ... ... many tools which systematically run prompts against several AI models daily, and measure visibility of a product within prompts. We're using a new tool called @Gauge . We chose because a) their citation tracking is more useful than the alternatives

... honest, social media and the internet have shaped us (neither a good nor a bad thing), but it is up to us whether we use them usefully. Those threats we can face can make us more experienced, my 2 cents. Comment from John Baek(@fitnessrefined): @busmark_w_nika  You are right. There is no assurance. They might also hang out with their friends more, find a different hobby or god forbid, get bored and have to figure something ...

... customer again. Comment from Daniel Foster(@dpfoster): We recently introduced generative voice and video into our Camtasia bundled subscription plans while retaining a traditional SaaS pricing model. Why? Sticking with the SaaS model helps us differentiate from competitors by offering unlimited AI under a very clear, predictable, easy-to-explain model. Some competitors

... More eyes, more real conversations, more signal. Weekend launches can work if you re optimizing purely for placement, but the momentum fades faster. In the end, it s less about the day and more about clarity of goal : visibility vs. badge vs

... point it to a specific feature definition without it having to read through the codebase to figure out how the feature works, heavily saving on context size. Comment from Sacha MORARD(@sachamorard): @alina_petrova3  I agree! There are alternatives to Sonnet, for sure. However, Sonnet is now recognized as the best (coupled with Claude Code) by a huge portion of developers, and I know many who don't want to take the risk of trying a cheaper model. This ... ... just jumping in and starting without much of a plan (but there's also a case to be made for spending more time figuring out what you're actually trying to do before you code). Anyhoo, my two cents

... that and then just make a phone call. But that would be an awfully nice trick for a meet up software to do and would sort of eat the lunch of products like team viewer Just my two cents. Comment from Tinnix He(@tinnix_he): google meet's recording function is actually quite good (for pro accounts). it has auto transcription as well, that adds to the video directly as subtitles, and you can just ask gemini ...

... feels fake to me, and X has become the same lately. The discussions here are genuinely interesting. On other platforms, everything is monetized through content, so people post non-stop just for reach. Here, Nika doesn t earn a cent for what she writes. Meaning people post because they want to , not to chase hype. I love reading the amazing stories from founders. Both success and failure. 6. The competition. If you re a maker or a hunter, there ...

... have no regrets about it now. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @natasha_knox  I am pretty sure that they are successful (just because they are happy with the work) :) Comment from Deepti(@godeepti): My 2 cents... Top students from my school ended up in fairly average positions, and I ve always felt it is a kind of law of conservation of energy. When you push too hard early in life, burnout often hits sooner. Personally, I performed much ... ... point. school rewards the followers while thinkers are menace to the society, that is why knowledge is dangerous for those who are in possession of power. They are scared of people making systems eventually making them as competitors