... businesses are mine. Comment from Amanda Phillips(@amanndaphillips): Since you haven't hit the deadline yet, I'd say let the data play out a bit more before deciding to pivot any of them! Comment from Sergey Kladko(@skldk): @ethan_tan I'd cut on the shape of the funnel, not the size of the spend. pixtidy is the only one with a real signal in it: 48 18 2 is a functioning funnel, just a leaky one (37% viewed ...

... that sounds great =) That's why I think we try to create our own switches as we grow. For me, I find that switch in very long drives - it helps me organize my thoughts. Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @ethan_gabriel  I started to understand this only recently. Before, I was trying to hide all my problems and stay productive, but it doesn t really work =) Comment from Tehreem Fatima(@tehreem_fatima5): yes but not for a longer time ... ... life s problems... Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @peter_jenkins1  Are there situations where you just can't do anything, even small tasks? Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @peter_jenkins1  That s a fair approach =) Comment from Ethan

... Product Hunt I'm Ethan Walkrman, a chef turned vibe builder at Matestable.com. Years on the pass taught me that taste doesn t fit inside a star rating it lives in what you order again, who you trust, and the table you keep talking about. Now I m building an agent discovery community that learns those signals and turns them into better restaurant discoveries. Early days. Shipping in public. Good to meet ...

... that! Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @elsaamri  Wow! Envy your last conversation =DDD Are you going to Budapest? Is it a work trip? And where are you from? Sorry for such many questions =) Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @ethan_gabriel  What part was broken? =/ Did you manage to fix it with AI s help? Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @alice_hayes2  Do you usually prepare for meetings? Like, write down everything you want to ask? Comment from ... ... hunt launch, sorting out timing and what to focus on first Comment from Alice Hayes(@alice_hayes2): Asked for a few questions to take into a meeting. It helped me notice what i actually wanted to ask. Comment from Ethan

... 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 Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @zara_noelle  I think ... ... ADHD that I prefer short texts (and AI has problem with writing short texts) lol :D Comment from Adrian Cole(@adrian_cole4): @busmark_w_nika Does knowing a human edited it change how you value it? Comment from Ethan

... realistic route for most products right now. make it frictionless to try, let the experience sell itself, then slowly shift the default. forcing it too early just creates support tickets. Comment from Zara Noelle(@zara_noelle): @riya_pariyar   @ethan_gabriel  The first time is confusing, then it's basically one tap. Comment from Charles Eric(@charles_eric3): The technology is ready. the account recovery story still feels like the awkward bit. Comment from Ethan

... Your product didn't get more trustworthy and in 2026, those turned out to be two completely different problems. Here's the line that reframed it for me. Stanford's AI Index this year leans on a phrase from Ethan Mollick the "jagged frontier" to describe how these systems excel and then fall off a cliff with no warning. Their example is almost too good: an AI model can win a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad and still ... ... transcripts starts accurate and then decays, not because the model changed but because your users did. Which means it has to be refreshed from live traffic on a schedule, or in a year you have rebuilt the exact lab-versus

... they appreciate the solution. Another major bottleneck is distribution and shortening the sales cycle. Enterprise customers often need multiple touch points before they adopt a new technology, even when the value is clear. Comment from Somesh Putatunda(@somesh_putatunda): @ethan_cheng  I can definitely relate to that. Acquiring users is one challenge, but earning enough value and trust for them to stay is a completely different game. Solving both consistently is what makes growth sustainable ... ... works if you answer it yourself first, otherwise it reads like a survey instead of an invitation. Comment from Abdullah Javaid(@abdullah_javaid3): For me it's not finding users, it's telling early which channel is actually compounding versus

... best ideas never show up while I'm staring at the screen; they arrive halfway through a walk when I've stopped trying. Funny how the brain does its best work the moment you stop pushing it :) Comment from Ethan Cheng(@ethan

... more about this than six months of building did.] Which letter are you, and what did it cost you to find out? I will come back in a few weeks and post the spread. Comment from Aadil Ghani(@aadilghani): @ethan_walker9   The timeout problem is the one I'm least done thinking about, so I'll give you the honest state of it rather than a clean answer, because I don't think anyone has the clean answer ... ... nothing, the reviewer's normal experience becomes an empty screen, and empty screens train people to expect empty. Whether the one that is not empty gets read properly on day forty is an open question. It still beats the alternative

... send a one-pager, it's faster." A dense page of text and I read none of it. A deck gives an investor a clean, focused way to follow your story, one idea at a time. "Don't mention competitors, it makes you look weak." A blank competition slide reads as naive, not dominant. Showing you understand the landscape is what makes the "here's our edge" line land. I've watched each of these cost founders real momentum ... ... lure in the potential investor, and make them believe in your valuation. Comment from Steve Barns(@steve_newdaythera): My favorite is when I get contradicting advice from various pitch reviews: "Get into the weeds about your regulatory path" and alternatively

... median points needed to break the top 5 and top 10 on each day. Check the full report here: https://app.databox.com/shared/a... The short version: Saturday is the easiest day. Only 266 median points to crack top 5, vs 360 on Wednesday. That's a 35% harder climb on the worst day vs

... someone installed it manually years ago and nobody wrote it down anywhere. Does ota detect flag "no version pinned anywhere" as its own warning category, separate from an actual mismatch? Comment from Omri Ben-Shoham(@omri_ben_shoham1): local vs CI is where it bites me most, specifically env vars and service versions someone set once by hand on their machine years ago and nobody wrote down. CI catches it eventually but usually as a red build with a cryptic ... ... dockerfiles, CI config), or do you have to hand-author the declaration yourself? if it's the latter that's still better than nothing but it's one more file that can silently drift from reality too Comment from Ethan

... built or used similar dev tools, what worked (or didn't) for you? Curious to hear your thoughts genuinely undecided here and want to build something people actually want. Comment from Sundar Balamurugan(@sundar_balamurugan): @ethan_marshall  Depends on the contribution. Comment from Sundar Balamurugan(@sundar_balamurugan): @nipuntaneja  Thanks NIpun, Thanks for the feedback. I think I would go with this direction now. Comment from Sundar Balamurugan(@sundar_balamurugan): @kryptonite_wei  Thank you Xinyuanwei. That's what ... ... balamurugan): @pablo_ani   @eduard_turea  Thanks for the comment Eduard. We are not capturing the data and users don't contribute with the dataset. But, yeah I got your point. Will keep it in mind. Comment from Ethan

... Product Hunt launch Every bit of support helps us reach more people who are stuck overpaying to send money home. Thanks for being part of this journey with us! https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Comment from Variindar Vaissh(@variindarvaissh): @ethan_marshall  Compliance and regulation, easily. Building fast product is the fun part, building it in a way that's actually regulated and trustworthy takes way more patience. Comment from Variindar Vaissh(@variindarvaissh): @ethan

... zajindacos123_coder): i'd love to see more before and after audio examples. hearing the difference would probably answer most of my questions right away. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9924129): Comment Deleted Comment from Mila:)(@ai_mila): @ethan_walker14  Thank you! Let us know if you have any feedback:) Comment from Mila:)(@ai_mila): @normawickwx  That's a great tip! Comment from Mila:)(@ai_mila): @zajindacos123_coder  Good point, thank you for the feedback ...

... would hold their attention for twenty minutes instead of forty seconds. That is the entire premise. Not where you've worked. What you've built. The Real Answer Is Not Either/Or In 2026, the strongest combination is not resume versus profile. It is resume plus profile. One gets you noticed in the first seven seconds of a scan. The other gets you remembered for the twenty minutes after that, and it is the twenty minutes that actually decide whether ... ... worded bullet points. Polish used to signal effort. Now it signals access to ChatGPT. Do you think the resume survives this at all, or does it quietly become a formality? Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): The "20 minutes vs

... Ethan, a solo indie developer building Sleep Island. I ve been building it for almost a year, and it recently reached 2,000+ daily active users. It s a sleep app that works with or without an Apple Watch: watch-free sleep tracking, relaxing sleep sounds, local snore recording, sleep talk recording, and detailed sleep reports. For this launch, $29.99 Lifetime Premium is free until June 28. Would love feedback from iOS users, especially people who don t like wearing ...

... Always curious what the SEO/affiliate folks here run vs. the general maker stack. Comment from mono.(@shakutovbekzat): Here s my stack for building mobile apps today: Antigravity + Codex (AI Agent): Switched to this setup recently. Previously, VS

... good first filter. External consequences are the second filter. Comment from Nipun Taneja(@nipuntaneja): The reversibility principle is sharp. I might steal it, honestly. It's the cleanest rule I've seen for where to hand off vs hold on. I draw the same line in ads, and it maps almost exactly. I'll let AI watch the data, flag problems, draft 15 variations, recommend the budget move. All reversible or pre-send. But the actual "spend more money" call ... ... Congrats on the launch. Comment from Umair(@umairnadeem): id draw the line anywhere a bad action creates cleanup work with another person. drafting and ranking are fine, but sending, scheduling, billing, and access changes need explicit approval Comment from Ethan

... discovering things you forgot existed. Comment from Tony(@tony2742): @sebastian_patterson   Random PDFs deserve their own category at this point. Manuals, invoices, receipts, reports, guides... somehow they all end up in the same place. Comment from Tony(@tony2742): @ethan_gabriel   References folders are dangerous They start organized and then slowly become a mix of bookmarks, PDFs, screenshots, and notes. Comment from Tony(@tony2742): @brajn   The Desktop seems to be one of the most common answers here ... ... Comment from Suzy Chase(@suzychase): Legit, it's my desktop. It's not even a folder anymore, it's a graveyard at this point. Comment from Kseniia Che(@kseniia_che): Downloads, of course. But screenshots are becoming a serious competitor

... Currently the max source is organic search and ai responses. Which channel is working the best for your brand? Comment from Diptanshu Mahish(@diptanshu_mahish): @seoulful  yeah, but now its fixed with organic growth so yeah Comment from Ethan Marshall(@ethan

... tied to an auditable actor trail. That s the boundary I think most current collab tools are missing: agents should not just borrow a human s implied authority. an sample screenshot of permissions: Comment from Zhen Han(@zhen_han): @ethan_gabriel  Approvals scale by ownership. Each human should be the manager of their own agents: they configure the agent s permissions, tool/app access, channel scope, and escalation rules. Routine work stays inside that scope; anything risky or unclear routes ... ... openclaw scheduled tasks so. I'll see what values vokal can provide. Comment from Riya Pariyar(@riya_pariyar): @zhen_han  this answers it really well, thank you. the auditable actor trail piece is what makes it feel trustworthy vs

... Sangwon Lee(@gamzabaw): @gabriel_brooks1  Exactly, those little details really matter when you're creating something to share. Sounds like you know your stuff Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9647813): Comment Deleted Comment from Sangwon Lee(@gamzabaw): @ethan_walker14  Totally agree it s always the small details that make the difference. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9647935): Comment Deleted Comment from Sangwon Lee(@gamzabaw): @evan_sterling  Thanks! I actually debated adding a full cat body ...

... believe in relative truth, then you re NGMI Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @mason_clark2  For me too, but I'm consciously trying to call Claude instead of OpenAI :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @ethan_blake2  IMO, every of these companies somehow collabs with governments. So it is like choosing from a bigger evil and smaller evil Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @dishantsinghdev  Thanks to that, Claude started growing pretty fast. Comment from ...