... amount looked lower than it should have been. I went digging and found this: in India, my lifetime purchase was priced at 290 INR, while my annual subscription was at 450 INR. Buying forever was cheaper than buying one year. It wasn't just India. Same inversion in Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Egypt, Pakistan, the Philippines and Nigeria. Eight markets where the pricing ladder was upside down. Why it happened: Google converts your base USD price into local currency separately ... ... healthy (~1.7x). In emerging markets it flipped. What it cost me: every

... background is in marketing, business strategy, and analytics, where I've spent years helping B2B companies make better decisions using data. Across companies of different sizes, I kept seeing the same problem: organizations were investing in more software every

... Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/3... The business market consolidated along the same lines, just a few years behind. Google launched G Suite (now Google Workspace) in 2006. Microsoft responded with Office 365 in 2011. Today those two products account for roughly 95% of the business productivity software market Google owns SMB and education, Microsoft owns the enterprise. Two companies now sit between your business and every

... Windsurf brand has been around less than a year and a half, and before that, the previous name Codeium was only around a similar timeframe as well. I ve actually had to change my email every

... every single dollar for 30 days. The result shocked me: $150/month on coffee and caf stops $200/month on food delivery $80/month on subscriptions I forgot about $60/month on apps I opened twice Total: $490 every

... data, acting as a gatekeeper to the B2B world, yet outdated as hell. Then I started thinking about alternatives. What options do B2B companies really have to reach customers? Email marketing? Broken since 2024. Google Ads? Getting more expensive every

... bringing their total funding to $67M, to "accelerate [their] mission of building the knowledge infrastructure for AI." Read in their blog announcement : Mintlify now powers documentation for over 20,000 companies, with content reaching more than 100 million people everyyear. This round accelerates our mission to become the knowledge layer that makes products understandable, usable and discoverable by AI agents. Rated 5-stars by the community, beautifully crafted , and powering docs for products like @Claude by Anthropic , @Resend ... ... docs its structured metadata that agents can actually parse without hallucinating the rest Comment from Alex(@youngyankee): Docs as infrastructure for AI agents is the right framing. A

... built: ARTH - a tax gap intelligence app for salaried Indians. It finds every rupee you're overpaying in taxes, in under 3 minutes, no tax consultant needed. Most salaried Indians leave north of 50,000( $500USD ) on the table every

... Launching @SkinTrack on Product Hunt today. It's a free iPhone app for tracking moles and skin changes over time. I built it because everyyear my derm points at a spot and asks "has this changed?" and

... year-olds with more real project experience and skills than some 30-year

... According to @RevenueCat 's State of Subscription Apps 2026 report, " hard paywalls convert 5x better than freemium, but with significantly wider variance." Day 35 download-to-paid, freemium vs. hard paywall Does access method impact download-to-paid conversion within 35 days? Quoting the report: Median D35 conversion sits at 10.7% for hard paywalls. Freemium is 2.1%. That gap alone should make you pause. But the more revealing part ... ... distribution. Hard paywall top decile apps approach 40% conversion. That s insane. Even the lower end performs at roughly double the freemium median. Behaviour isn t changing it remains heavily front-loaded (it s the same story every

... nika  I point these things out within the enrollment of the app: - I tell them no ads - I tell them I'm self funded and the app costs money to operate - I offer monthly and yearly options with a huge discount with yearly

... look at the numbers. If you follow 50 channels and spend just 2 minutes on each, that s 100 minutes a day. That is 730 hours a year. You are spending one full month of your life every

... giving me the advice I needed to navigate a successful launch. And most importantly, thank YOU. Every upvote, comment, and piece of feedback meant the world to me. This Isn t a "One-Hit Banger" This app isn't going anywhere. I ve officially launched a Public Roadmap here: product-hunt-wrapped.vercel.app/roadmap I want to invite you to submit your ideas for next year

... know that feeling when Spotify Wrapped drops in December and you spend the next hour sharing your music personality? We wanted that same dopamine hit... but for code. As developers, we're writing lakhs of lines of code everyyear, contributing to open source, building side projects at 2 AM while balancing day jobs, shipping features during IPL matches. But where's OUR

... This time of year, everyone is downloading holiday deals, free apps, coupons, giveaways, mods, and Black Friday tools. And every

... Koushik, and I ve been building something I finally feel ready to share. Over the past year, I ve been working on Opinion Outpost , a platform designed to map how opinions evolve over time. We express thousands of opinions every

... opposite is that Android is used by different devices, so optimisation can be difficult. iOS: iOS users are more willing to pay (and I'm already used to iOS). The disadvantage is recurring payments in the App Store everyyear (about $100). Several people have advised me, for example, the Ionic Framework or Flutter, which would allow for cross-platform development. From your point of view, which platform is worth making an app for? Do you know any good

... time I talk to a current or recent YC company or go to the events, I'm reminded what top speed looks like. And I'm also reminded that the speed that start-ups are capable of gets faster everyyear, especially with AI. As for hesitations...sometimes people balk at the dilution, but generally speaking, the higher price that startups command in their next round at Demo Day more than compensates.     https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Comment from Hong ... ... well does it actually work? Comment from Rajiv Ayyangar(@rajiv_ayyangar): @jonayed_tanjim  I'm not close enough to Webhooks to understand if this is a valuable problem to solve. But if this is a common build

... than 33% of subscriptions are underused or not used at all, leading to unnecessary spending In the UK alone, unused subscriptions cost businesses over 1.7 billion annually. In the US, the number is even more staggering: $32 billion wasted everyyear After seeing this, I started thinking more seriously about how companies could track and manage their subscriptions better. I m not here to promote anything, but I do want to ask a couple of honest questions to hear your ...

... feature lite. Beehiiv is kind expensive for me (5,000+ subs) and feels like it could even be feature obtuse. Do I need all those features? Do i need any of them? I end up flip flopping everyyear. So it leads me to this question. Do you use Substack or Beehiiv? And why? Comment from Nick Frost(@thinker): Beehiiv Comment from Rohit Lakhotia(@rohit_lakhotia): Almost 2026 now, a lot of things have changed. If I have to conclude ... ... features set for Substack

... when are you going to get a real job?". This was a stark difference from when I was abroad and told people what I did. People were excited, supportive and wanted to learn to do the same thing. Everyyear that I came back to Europe the culture felt more stagnant, more pessimistic, and more normie. Of course there was great things about Europe for me pulling me back: my parents and brothers live here, and when I ended ... ... party punch. The EU doesn't include Switzerland (where I live) or the UK (which are certainly Europe too) and it represents a certain (failed imo) philosophical approach to European coherence to which you're proposing an

... Everyyear, we're seeing new creations that is really life changing to us. Now, new

... case you missed it Europe's clocks went back an hour this Sunday gone, a whole week before the U.S. To me, the whole daylight savings system just creates unneeded stress. People late for work (it happens everyyear) across