... actually here for: I don't want to just build this in a vacuum and guess what people need. If you've ever felt that same "where did I even save that" frustration, or you're currently duct-taping five different apps together to keep track of things, I'd genuinely like to hear how you're doing it now and what's annoying about it. Not trying to sell anything in this post, just want to talk to people ...

... replacement for them. It plans the work, does the work, and holds anything customer-facing in an approval queue until a human says go. Because unsupervised sending is the thing nobody actually wants, they just put up with the alternative. Product Hunt page: https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Your turn. Curious what the real origin story looks like for others: What problem pushed you to build? Who kept telling you it was painful before you finally listened? What's the part ... ... basically how Aven Quiz AI started. Comment from Michael Shollenberger(@michael_shollenberger): Great thread format, answering all three. What pushed me to build: Twenty-five years running engineering organizations, and my own household still ran on the same duct

... tools has been more useful to me week to week than most launch pages ever are. I'd ask him what tool in his own stack he'd be a little embarrassed to admit is held together with duct tape. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @alpertayfurr  These names are new to me. Thank you for widening my horrizons :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @raffay_sajjad  The question is pretty valid. Probably the approach could be different ...

... that means the pain is real enough to act on, just nothing good exists yet. with AgentGovern.ai i kept seeing teams using spreadsheets and Slack approvals to track what their AI agents did. that was enough. if people are duct-taping a solution together, the market's there, you just have to build the real version. Comment from Roopesh Donde(@roopesh_donde): "This is addictive and can improve productivity" that's what my wife said when she first used ...

... product enough to actually press send on fundraising emails? That is a much harder problem. For context, Causo helps early-stage founders find relevant investors and run cold fundraising outreach without manually building lists, writing everything from scratch, or duct-taping 5 tools together. Rough numbers so far from the fundraising product: 272 founders signed up in the fundraising flow 253 created a company profile 92 completed onboarding 90 got matched with investors 38,000+ founder/investor matches generated 117 outreach ...

... what actually sets you apart? As for what I m building: I m creating VertoX , the world s first real-time speech translation system that preserves the speaker's original voice, tone, and emotions. We have no direct competitors in what we are doing. Our ICP is literally the entire world. It doesn't matter if you're an enterprise company, a student, a traveler, or a government agency; VertoX is here to completely eliminate the language barrier globally. Comment ... ... retail investors - most of them don't have 3 hours to parse an earnings call and just want to know if the number matters. Natural language on top of financial data is exactly where AI actually adds value vs

... doorbell. It rings the same whether it's a package or a fire. That's basically the gap Pushary fills, same hook idea you've already wired, but the event carries a real handoff (done vs blocked vs

... hyperparameter) optimizations at scale. Local scripts only get you so far. Hyperscaler services are expensive and painful to set up. Cobbling something together on a cheaper cloud provider means wrestling with infrastructure, slow iteration cycles, and a looot of duct tape. We needed a tool that could run optimizations cheaply at scale, with zero manual intervention and a proper dashboard. It didn't exist, so we built it. HyperOptimizer is for anyone building algorithms, ML models, trading strategies, AI/LLM agents ...

... exploring an idea called DIM , a rentable AI marketing team for solo founders, small businesses, and creators who can t (or don t want to) hire a full-time marketer or agency. Instead of: learning marketing from scratch duct-taping ChatGPT + tools + automations paying expensive freelancers You d hire AI marketing agents that: Learn your business, offers, target audience, and brand Research your competitors

... about: pacing pressure resilience sustainability controlled response explainable system behavior It is not about promising price support. The goal is not to hold the chart up. The goal is to keep the ecosystem from behaving like a slot machine duct-taped to a volcano. A good balance engine does not erase market conditions. It helps the world react to them without collapsing into nonsense. What it will be able to do When fully matured, Blaze Balance Engine is designed ... ... public . What still needs maturing includes: 1. Full operator-facing balance panel The admin side needs a cleaner, more complete control surface where operators can see: pressure inputs balance recommendations active bounds suggested changes recent balance receipts frozen vs

... external money, no board telling us what to prioritise. Just a problem worth solving and the patience to solve it right. The problem? AI voice calling infrastructure is a mess. Most teams building voice agents today are duct-taping wrappers on top of existing platforms, and then wondering why their agents sound robotic, break under load, or cost a fortune to scale. The underlying infra was never designed for what people are trying to build with it today. That ...

... prompt because it lives in the repo. We built PromptOT to fix this. Launching April 15. Would love some support from the PH community. What layer of your AI stack do you feel is still held together with duct tape ...

... Tired of duct-taping UptimeRobot + Statuspage + PagerDuty + Canny together and then realizing they're all US-hosted? I built FoundersDeck to fix this. One toolkit for SaaS founders who build in the EU. What's live: Uptime Monitoring (30s intervals) Public Status Pages (custom domains) Multi-channel Alerts (Email, Slack, Discord, Webhooks) GDPR-native, DPA instant download, German servers Free tier, no credit card. See it in action this is our own status page: status.foundersdeck.dev What's coming: Changelog, Feedback ...

... first AI-Native Office Suite that provides a comprehensive workspace where you can build, create, manage, collaborate and automate   powered by frontier autonomous agents that execute complex workflows across the entire system on your behalf. No more duct-tape stacks. No more app fatigue. I'm here to connect with builders, founders, and operators who feel the same friction. Would love to hear what tools are costing you the most headspace right now. Comment from Nova Blue(@nova_blue ...

... builders are built for the person making the form, not the person filling it. And that s just backwards. So we re building the whole thing properly. Partial submissions, abandonment recovery, payments, scheduling and so much more! No more duct tape. Here to learn, fail, overshare, and probably ask you to fill out a form. What s the most annoying thing about forms you ve had to use? Comment from Rian Robertson(@rianbrob): Love the user-first approach to forms ...

... Product Hunt! I built CoachingPortal because I kept watching talented fitness coaches burn out on admin instead of coaching. They were duct-taping together 4 5 different tools - a training app, a nutrition tracker, a client portal, a spreadsheet - none of which had their brand on it, and none of which talked to each other properly. So I built the platform I wish had existed. Here's what makes it different from everything else out there: Auto-periodization engine - training ... ... programs self-adjust progression, deloads, and intensity cycles automatically. No competitor

... problem we kept running into Every founder and growth person I talked to was doing some version of the same thing: Manually scrolling Reddit and Slack to find relevant conversations Running half-broken n8n workflows with keyword alerts Checking competitor mentions once a week (if that) Looking at their LinkedIn feed and seeing posts that were 10 days old And the frustrating part? The conversations that actually mattered like buyers switching tools, people asking for alternatives

... this. Second: native integration. Shiori isn't just "another bookmark manager that happens to be in ExtraBar." It shares the same widget system, the same keyboard navigation, and the same design language. One experience, not two apps duct-taped together. Shiori will become a fully standalone app in the future. But we wanted ExtraBar users to get it first. The Honest Part Here's something I don't see enough founders talk about. ExtraBar is a one-time payment. Lifetime ...

... doing this.   The "Why" is about frustration. The billing space is huge, yet the pattern is always the same: powerful features gated behind "talk to sales" banners and 5-figure contracts. Early teams are stuck with rigid, duct-taped systems that can t evolve. We wanted to flip that. Meteroid is built on a simple idea: advanced billing should be accessible from day one, not a Series B "upgrade".   To turn this philosophy into reality, we built Meteroid ...

... every new user gets a 14-day free trial. Relae solves a problem every developer knows too well: unreliable, opaque webhook systems. We built it to offer clear observability, consistent delivery, and simple tooling without all the patchwork and duct tape. If your product relies on webhooks, I d love for you to check it out and share your feedback: https://relaehook.com Thanks so much for the early support it truly helped shape the product. Excited for what s next ...

... enrichment and cleaning waterfall in the background, and lets teams build, enrich, and clean lists in minutes instead of hours. On top of that, we layer GTM playbooks so teams can go from ICP clean data live sequences without duct-taping spreadsheets, APIs, and scripts together. My edge is combining systems thinking with hands-on execution. I ve been the BDR grinding out cold calls, the agency owner managing 25 reps, and the growth lead wiring up the GTM stack ...

... performance tanks, everyone blames creative, copy, or this channel doesn t work anymore. The unspoken assumption has been: To fix audiences, you need a full CDP, GTM engineers, and a big ops team. So smaller teams either: Try to duct-tape it in spreadsheets, or Give up and run broad, lazy targeting. But the deeper I went, the more obvious it became: The bottleneck isn t data access . It s the missing workspace between CSV campaign. Right ...

... Windsurf, Cursor) with ease and clarity. CanvasEight.io is built for indie devs, agencies and Figma product teams who want to skip the handoff drama and ship faster. Upload your Figma file and get structured, production-ready code without the duct tape. Why it s different: - Semantic-first engine understands design intent, not just layout - meaning code and app structure is sound. - Instant conversion - no setup, no plugins, no MCP server setups - 3 free conversions to test your cleanest wireframes - Modular ...

... Product Hunt family, We re building Vartiq a Webhook-as-a-Service platform that takes the pain out of delivering millions of events reliably. Today, most dev teams duct-tape their own webhook infra. It works until it doesn t. At 10K+ daily events, retries fail, observability vanishes, and integrations break. That s where Vartiq comes in: a production-ready webhook engine with retries, backoff, DLQs, and real-time monitoring all in under 5 minutes of setup. In just ...

... testing for real-world risks Works with REST, GraphQL, internal and mobile APIs Integrates with AWS, GCP, Azure, Postman, Burp, Nginx APIs are the #1 starting point for breaches today. We wanted something API-first, not a generic scanner duct-taped onto the problem. In case you want to give it a try, please find it here and show your support >> https://www.producthunt.com/post... What s the weirdest API-related security incident you ve seen ...