... Product Hunt! I m Handuo, one of Copus s founders. We launched a version of Copus

... community! I m Handuo, co-founder of Copus. We re launching on Product Hunt this Wednesday, March 11th, and I d love your support. Every like, bookmark, and share is a taste signal. Until now, only algorithms and ad networks profited from yours. Copus

... True Fans" by Kevin Kelly. The idea that you don't need millions of followers to build a sustainable creative career completely shifted how I think about building audiences. It is also one of the core ideas behind Copus helping people build real, engaged communities around the content they care about. What is yours? And what did it change for you? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): I cannot say it is an article or a single book ...

... Thought experiment: if you had to delete all your bookmarks and could only keep 10, which ones would survive? I think the answer reveals a lot about what we actually value vs what we mindlessly save. Most of us have hundreds or thousands of saved links we will never revisit. The ones that would make my cut: - 2-3 reference articles I genuinely go back to regularly - A couple of tools I use weekly - Maybe 1-2 essays that changed ... ... often. And a news source. The problem would be picking which creative sites I'm going to keep out of the 420 I have available. Comment from Handuo(@handuo): @lyngeist  That's amazing. Please also save them on Copus

... with PayPal because I already had the account laying around. Might add Stripe later. I just went with a pay as you go credit based system and I just track the credits in my own DB. Tools/Process: Fired up VS Code, installed Claude Code, used it to author everything for the front end and back end. Used Amazon Q to help me setup all the cloud infrastructure. Went with Elastic Beanstalk for the back end and just a S3 bucket ... ... auth its just device id stored in keychain no accounts needed which keeps onboarding super minimal biggest challenge has been text extraction different sites block scrapers differently. revenucat for subscriptions has been great tbh, saves a ton of time vs

... into LLM discovery - didn't realize founder reviews get structured that way. We're building on Claude and Vercel so those are genuine shoutouts we'd make anyway. The tip about smaller products where your review can stand out vs big ones where you're competing with 50 other reviews is practical. Thanks for being transparent about how this works behind the scenes. Comment from Amit Bidlan(@zistica): Yeah, it s worth adding a shoutout. It s a super easy ... ... background while you guys hang out. I'm actually adding more clips on a daily basis curious to know, which channel is your favorite so far? Comment from Handuo(@handuo): 100% yes on shoutouts. We are launching Copus

... matter in tech. When you build tools that millions of people rely on daily, the decisions you make about ethics aren't abstract they directly shape what's possible. As builders ourselves, we think a lot about this at Copus. We chose to build a platform where creators own their content and curation is transparent. Not because it was the easiest path, but because we saw what happens when platforms optimize purely for engagement without guardrails. The companies that take ...

... care about the outcome, not just the vanity metrics. Comment from Hellen charless(@hellen_charless): First of all I love how thoughtfully you re approaching this. That already separates you from launch and pray founders. Your question about strategy vs timing vs

... well ;) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @jairo_junior  This was the best parallel from the whole thread :D Framed it accur8ly. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @couldashouldawoulda  :D Teenage vs AI agents. I would trust AI agents more in this case :D I know teenagers :D Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @spunchev  I think that most of time it represents hard data, but only use soft clausules to sound more human :D Comment from ... ... agents doing tasks badly it's them doing the wrong task confidently. So the approval step stays human at our company, probably forever. Comment from Henrik Pedersen(@henrikpedersen): The distinction I keep coming back to is read vs

... project was a todo webapp classic entry point But the one I'm most proud of came later: Claudine , a kanban board for Claude Code. Built it because I kept losing track of which agent conversations needed my attention vs. which were still running. Tool used: Claude Code itself (meta, I know) Most difficult part: Auto-detecting conversation status from raw JSONL files inferring "is this waiting for me?" is surprisingly tricky Earned money? Not directly it's free ... ... have to invest in learning how to develop further than the concept build. Comment from Andy Gongea(@andy_gongea): In 2023 when ChatGPT took the world by storm, way before ( vibe coding was called vibe coding ) I created a VS