... check after the launch hit me even harder. I used to think that building the app was the ultimate boss fight. I was completely wrong. The hardest part is getting your very first users when you have exactly zero cents in your pocket. Algorithms flag you, filters delete your posts, and you end up screaming into a void, watching a flatline of 0 users for days. It drains you completely. But I m not quitting. Not anymore. So here ...

... more than the number, tbh. We've gone through this with enterprise pilots where getting 5 really specific users who live inside the problem daily gave us more signal than surveying 50 people with a vague interest. Your dev vs. user split finding makes total sense too, developers catch structural issues while actual users just tell you if it felt okay, which doesn't always mean it IS okay. Comment from Burak Emre Ta er(@burak_emre_taser): Great insights ... ... only one using your own product daily, that's actually not nothing! It means YOU have the problem you're solving. The question is whether others share that same problem. What's been your experience with early user feedback vs

... perceived as completely normal (at least for me). As equal human work. How do you view things generated by artificial intelligence? Maybe it's true that who is behind the output and prompting also influences the result (professional vs. amateur). But it clashes a bit with the fact that: if we do things with AI, why do we demand less money for the output? (We perceive it as cheap.) Comment from Lisa(@yelyzaveta_kibets): @busmark_w_nika   Haha ... ... written. They just didn't help at all. All generic water. Even the "how-to" video content is nowadays mostly AI-generated. Only Reddit, with real humans there, helped me. That's the real thing for me. Not AI vs

... 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

... tiebreaker between two routes that already pass is fine. Cost as the first filter is exactly how you end up shipping the confident wrong answer. Comment from Jessica Flower(@jessicaflou0): I've always felt that saving a few cents isn't worth much if the user gets a worse answer. for me the router should first figure out what each model is reliably good at then use cost to fine-tune the decision ...

... about momentum. Great points you raised! Comment from Abusaid islam said(@abusaid_islam_said): @busmark_w_nika  Haha, absolutely! Coffee is definitely a must-have for launch day And to answer your question yes, 100%. Doing a quick "competitor research" on Product Hunt is one of the first things I do. But I don't check to get discouraged by competition; I check to learn: The Positioning: How did they present the solution? What resonated with the PH community ... ... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 Sai Tharun Kakirala(@sai_tharun_kakirala): Subscription is almost always the right call once your core use cases are recurring PAYG creates budget anxiety that kills conversion, even when the actual spend ends ... ... 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 kosy arnold(@kosy_gtm): @paulveth  That makes sense, usually, simplifying a big vision is always the hard part. This is clearer though, especially leading with the outcome. I d just tighten the promise a bit more ...

... 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 ...

... they are gone :( Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @rohanrecommends  Cool, congratulations to the team! :) 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 Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @oshylabs  yeah, anybody can log in the platform (but you still need to remember that) :D anyway you are right, activity is way more effort Comment ... ... 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

... locked thing is worth paying for. Comment from Umair(@umairnadeem): one thing nobody here is mentioning is that the free vs paid calculus completely changes when your product has real per-user costs. i build AI-powered tools and every single API call costs money. image generation is like $0.003 per image, animation runs about 7 cents

... 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 Umair(@umairnadeem): this breakdown is missing the biggest cost saver imo which is generating your own visuals with AI instead of paying for stock. i run a faceless channel and my total visual cost per video ... ... under $2. bulk generate 150-200 still images via an API (costs fractions of a cent

... 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 Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @cam_mcmaster1  usually it starts with children and continues with adults. Did you see this? https://www.theverge.com/tech/87... This pi*ed off many adults who use the platform for gaming ...

... user heavily uses AI-powered steps, agents, or transformations, credits are consumed faster because real token and compute costs are involved. From the buyer s perspective, pricing stays consolidated. They do not have to reason separately about SaaS fees versus AI fees. This has helped us in a few ways: Pricing remains easy to understand at the top level. We avoid unlimited AI usage that quietly destroys margins. Users naturally self-regulate usage based on value, not artificial feature locks ... ... money from the subscription, and the other month the user wouldn't use the full value of the app. So the usage-based is a perfect balance. For me, usage based sees a lot more trying-it-out users, versus

... 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

... Edgee is a Token Compression technology which can save up to 50% of the token bill. And it works with Claude Code pro/max plan as well 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 ... ... widely seen as the best. And Sonnet is definitely a high-quality model. BUT if you re building a SaaS product powered by AI, pricing is important. It directly impacts margins, scalability, and how competitive you can be. If alternatives

... 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 ...

... according to my teachers, because I was busy with extracurricular activities. In college, I performed well, but I worked hard. I was never a topper, and I have no regrets about it now. 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 ... ... 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

... just mentioning features could also boost conversions. You have a section for this which is great, but I reckon that mentioning this earlier on in the page would be seen by more users. Anyway, those are just my two cents lol. It's all just small tweaks really on the landing page, but it's a fantastic product with loads of great features, so it's just a matter of making copy tweaks here and there. Overall, this product looks ...