... moment. I believe that most makers got into computers at an early age and worked in programs that may have already fallen into disrepair, but were crucial for their development and career direction. Which old software changed your life? :D Here is a list of mine: Sketchbook this is where I drew houses and landscapes, the beginnings of my art (I was about 8 years old) Notepad on Windows 1998 this is where I wrote stories as an 8-year ... ... Photoshop PS 4 when I was 14 I edited my photos, mostly it was crap, e.g. I photoshopped a third eye onto my face :D

... just walked out of the gym, and I feel ready to move mountains! =D For a while, I gave up exercising. And yesterday, the bell rang when my teammate asked the whole team: When was the last time you did some sport? It made me frustrated. I realized I d

... Okay, humans. We ve decided what s best for you ! Just a little bit of Matrix, maybe... As someone from filmmaking, I can t really control the scenarios that appear in my head while building an agentic environment =D I know, I know - probably too much sci-fi. But sometimes I look at what we re building and think: Are we creating tools for ourselves or slowly creating something that will regulate us one day? Be honest. Has this thought ... ... ever crossed your mind in the shower? =D

... nobody covered, which is worse, because it changes a line of code a lot of us shipped this year without thinking about it. If your product has a "paste a URL" box, a link unfurler, an enrichment step, a competitor-monitoring job, or anything that fetches a page and hands it to a model, this is about you. What was actually measured. The paper is "Indirect Prompt Injection in the Wild" by Khodayari, Zhang, Acharya and Pellegrino, out of CISPA ... ... medium models sit at 0.6%. Meanwhile the string is permanently in your markup, it is trivially greppable, and a measurement paper just published a taxonomy for finding it. Bad expected value in both directions. Corroboration, and the conflicts I'd

... Apple's own support pages. Apple In-App Purchase: 26%, or 15% if you're in the Small Business Program, the Mini Apps or Video Partner Programs, or on an auto-renewable subscription after the subscriber's first year. Alternative payment processing inside your app: 20%, or 10% for those same groups. Out-of-app offers with an actionable link: a 15% store services commission, or 10% for those groups, on anything bought within 7 days of the tap. Apps ... ... distributed outside the App Store entirely - an alternative

... worth a 1% click. Everything fresher is measured by the people selling the service. It's Q4 planning season, which means a lot of small teams are about to write GEO on a budget line. Before you do, I'd spend twenty minutes on two documents, because they disagree with the pitch in a specific way. The first is Google's own page on AI features and your website, in Search Central. It says there are no additional requirements ... ... useful, have your important content in text. That's the platform saying, in its own documentation, that the product being sold to you does not exist as a distinct technical practice. You can decide Google is being coy. I'd

... again the pricing plan =D Let s discuss the serious side of product growth. At first, it seems easy: set some prices, create a few plans, and start selling your product. But when the time actually comes, a ton of questions appear... For us, pricing plans are also connected to the architecture of the product. We built a dashboard where we can include or exclude features, storage, and AI tokens for each plan. But deciding what should actually be included ... ... share large media files, work with AI, and collaborate in shared spaces. And honestly, the question still remains: How do you shape pricing plans that actually work? What's your approach - from both the technical and business sides? I'd

... covers mobile and tablet form factors only. The global rollout all apps, all certified devices is 2027. So for most people reading this, September is a fire drill happening in four countries. That's the honest read, and I'd rather hand you that than manufacture urgency. Here's the part I'd

... Comment from luokebi(@luokebi): I think now that we have AI, we don t need it anymore!!! Comment from max(@baseddesigner): I don't think so But I'm also a designer lol Comment from Alexey Glukharev(@alexeyglukharev): I d split this into two stages. Early on, I think having a genuinely good UX designer is important. We found one for our project, and it made a real difference, because good UX isn t just about visuals. It s about ... ... yours. That s usually where the best design decisions come from. Comment from Alexandria Redmon(@heresalexandria): @jordan_bulk   @tiffany_trboyevich  this exactly - and the more you can measure this across different personas the better. One thing I'd

... what I repeatedly did while sitting on one. For years, I used otherwise forgettable pockets of time, commuting, waiting, sitting between things, to keep learning tech. Sometimes it was something completely new. Sometimes it was refreshing a concept I'd forgotten. Sometimes it was learning a technology I thought would matter for the next stage of my career. None of those sessions felt particularly important. Ten minutes here, twenty minutes there. But over almost two decades in tech, they compounded ... ... meant I had to build the learning experience myself. Find good material. Work out whether it was current. Figure out what level I should start at. Know what prerequisites I was missing. Decide what came next. Remember where I'd

... testers? The mix of respondents? Or the way the feedback is collected? Finding: Developers were able to give me detailed and more accurate feedback than users itself. Developers spotted many things, recommended things while user said: It's okay. :D Comment from Ricky Hayes(@ricky_hayes1): @busmark_w_nika   @david_martin_suarez  Can I ask what discord communities and reddit? I am very curious to learn more myself honestly. Comment from Hisashi Space(@hisashispace): It depends on which ... ... SaaS with a single live test-bench a brand-new local pizzeria. Fixing real pain points in a live, high-stakes environment gives way clearer product feedback than 50 survey responses. Comment from Ashis Roy(@ashis_roy3): I'd

... makers are quietly building for right now, and the rulebook for it is a page almost nobody reads. I read it this week because I was working out whether Murror belongs there, and one paragraph changed how I'd plan around it. Here it is, from OpenAI's app submission guidelines rather than the coverage: "Currently, apps may conduct commerce only for physical goods. Selling digital products or services including subscriptions, digital content, tokens, or credits is not allowed, whether ... ... names freemium upsell as the example. That is the entire indie playbook. Free tier, obvious ceiling, upgrade prompt at the moment of value. If your app's job is to demonstrate value and then convert, the mechanism you'd

... payment checked, with guardian equivalents for each. There's also a signal for whether regulatory requirements apply to this user at all, and whether they're required to share. So age arrives with a provenance attached. And I'd bet almost every implementation collapses it to a single isMinor boolean on the first day and throws the rest away, because that's the shape the rest of the code wants. I want to be honest that ... ... Play of significant changes, and handle revoked approvals. Neither of them defines significant. Apple says plainly that you determine what constitutes a significant app update, based on applicable law, and to consult your counsel. That's the sentence I'd

... find each other. So, I m curious: Do you have social media as a maker? What kind of things do you share there? Is it mostly about your product, your journey, ideas, or something completely different? And maybe you d like to share your pages here - would be nice to discover what other makers are doing and follow along =) Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @marketer_kim  What are you building? And when are you going to launch your product ... ... product. We re trying to do something similar too. Unfortunately, I don t have an Instagram account, so I can t follow your pages there =( But if you have Linkedin or Youtube, please share the links! I d

... training with the same bot. On 15 September that exclusion goes away. Mixed-purpose crawlers that combine Search and Training get blocked by every configuration that blocks AI training, including the legacy preset. Cloudflare names the three you'd care about: Googlebot, Applebot, BingBot. So if you turned that on and forgot, in 25 days you are telling Google not to crawl you. Google is still roughly 88% of referral traffic on Cloudflare's own numbers. That ... ... same visual language, and they are not the same decision at all. I don't have a satisfying answer for Murror. We're not ad-supported, so the default doesn't bite. But the honest reason I'd

... month with no user attached to it. Nobody joins those two tables for you. So the flat $20 subscription keeps looking fine right up until the composition of your user base shifts. Which brings me to the thing I'd push back on hardest, because it's the answer I hear whenever this comes up: costs are collapsing, so just wait. The unit price genuinely is collapsing. GPT-4-class inference ran somewhere around $20 30 per million tokens ... ... late 2022; equivalent performance is roughly $0.40 0.80 today. I'd

... past 3 months, I've been building FounderMind AI not because I thought it would be a cool product, but because I needed it myself. Here's the problem I kept running into: Every week as a founder, I'd face decisions like: Should I build this feature or pivot? Is this feedback worth acting on or a distraction? Am I optimizing for the right metric? And every week, I'd

... Shipping @Ctruh Studio and becoming @Product Hunt #2 Product of the Day taught us a lot. Looking back, there's always one decision you'd make sooner. What's yours? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @hamza_afzal_butt   @rohanrecommends   @sharun_kanan  I would probably invest more in awareness on social media and among peope in my community :) Comment from Somesh Putatunda(@somesh_putatunda): @rabnoor_s  This one really hit home. The part about free users ... ... talk to? Comment from Sharun Kanan(@sharun_kanan): @busmark_w_nika  that's the honest answer for most of us, awareness is the unglamorous work that compounds. And "among people in my community" is the part I'd

... actually happens when sensitive data gets pasted into a chatbot) instead of just listing features ourselves. One thing I'm curious about: for the pre-launch phase, how did you decide which communities were actually worth showing up in vs. just noise? Comment from Samran Elahi(@samran_elahi): Really useful breakdown, Nika. Especially #3, hadn't thought about search visibility that way. A few things we've been leaning into ahead of our own PH launch: Building presence before asking ... ... access via DMs. curious how long you kept the "talk about it constantly" phase pre-launch before it started feeling repetitive to your network? Comment from Saied Alimoradi(@saied_alimoradi): @rwicqsi  This is the underrated one, and I'd

... before launch makes a huge difference. Product Hunt isn't just a launch platform; it's also a community. So I'd say: build enough to be useful, launch early enough to learn, and start building relationships long before launch day. Comment from Kai Long(@kailong_20): @busmark_w_nika  I d

... reviews the transcript the customer already heard it and reacted to it. there's no pause-and-ask step mid sentence. so our real answer is closer to D, we catch it after the fact through review and adjust the prompt, and we're honest that this is weaker than we'd

... suddenly lose access to all AI. But what happens if , one day, access to the leading American models is restricted more broadly? We would still have European models, open-source systems we can operate ourselves, and Chinese alternatives. But there is no guarantee that another major power would never make the same decision to protect its own strategic advantage. AI is no longer just another software category. It is becoming infrastructure. It will shape education, healthcare, national security, research ... ... world are American, and Europe should continue working closely with the United States. But cooperation and dependency are not the same thing. Technological sovereignty does not mean refusing to use foreign technology. It means having a real alternative

... This is garbage, it hung up on my mother" is rude and actionable. "Love the vision, excited to see where this goes!" is lovely and worth nothing. Second, the distinction that changed how we respond: hate at your product versus hate at your category. A lot of what looks like hostility toward us is not about us at all - it is people who object to the whole idea of software answering a phone. That is not a bug report ... ... detail for it to be understandable which I acknowledged and explained, and then everything was sorted out. Fortunately, other members weren't as harsh; as for the two or three truly hateful ones after looking at other comments they d

... would I ever post on "D Stage" when I already have my regular social feeds?" If you've been building in public for a while, you already know the answer in your gut you're just not saying it out loud: social media wasn't built for founders. It was built for everyone, about everything, and you're just borrowing space in it. Quick context for anyone who hasn't seen it "D

... realized I probably couldn't stay away from the internet for an entire day. :D Partly because I want to keep my Product Hunt streak, but also because: I try to nurture my community and engage with them every day (essential for growing). I handle customer support daily. Missing important news from the tech world gives me FOMO. To compensate, I spend time outdoors, go into nature, and stay active through sports. But I know that disconnecting from the internet ... ... full day would probably do wonders for my eyes, focus, posture, and overall well-being. Are you able to go completely offline? If so, for how long? And if you've managed to reduce your online time, I'd