... proper conversion tracking this week. I had put it off for a fortnight because it felt like plumbing rather than progress. It took about an hour. The first thing it told me was that one of my funnel events has never fired. Not rarely. Never, not once in 28 days. People run a scan. People hit the gate. People hand over their email address to unlock the report. And then nobody clicks through to the app. The step ... ... easy one, the one after they have already given me something, is where it stops dead. What makes it worth posting rather than just quietly fixing: I had spent the previous two weeks working on the top of the funnel

... years in the pharmaceutical industry until I couldn't stand the healthcare system anymore. So I headed toward what I loved most: marketing. Finding the right positioning and branding for a quality product, writing copy and building sales funnels, getting people to know about it, and helping clients shape and ship products. After 4 years in marketing, somehow I ended up working for a Canadian software company as a marketing lead. I helped close deals with enterprise clients, banks ... ... launch is a completely different game. At the beginning, I thought I knew enough. Then I started building. And I realized... I knew very little. From sketching the idea and UI screens on paper... To pricing research. Competitor

... every candidate, and somehow we're still relying mostly on a document people wrote about themselves to decide who gets a chance. A document, that isn't gonna list the same opportunities a single mother first generation immigrant had versus the son of a billionaire, even if the first generation immigrant has more potential and a better skillset for the actual job. And the thing I kept coming back to was: a resume doesn't actually tell you whether someone ... ... matter if you are a recruiter, startup, looking for a job, or just someone interested in the hiring industry :) What I'd genuinely love from this community If you hire: what is the single worst part of your screening funnel

... seen in makers I respect, including me. You launch, conversion looks better than the benchmarks you read about, and you reasonably conclude the product is landing. So you put money and time into the top of the funnel, because that's the part that's responding. Twelve months later the cohort you were so pleased with is 21% intact and you're wondering what changed. Nothing changed. You just finally got the second number. There's independent data pointing ... ... depth fell 38% year over year even as adoption held. Their reading is that agents now do in one run what used to take five prompts so falling engagement can mean the product got better. Which means the mid-funnel

... have to decide whether it needs more runway or whether you're funding a dead end. The rule I've landed on: I stop looking at the final number and look at whether any part of the funnel is improving. If the top is growing but conversion is flat, it's a targeting problem and worth fixing. If nothing is moving anywhere after a fair run, more time won't change it. Volume alone has never rescued a channel ...

... paid conversion. 25%+ with PQL. Webinars (live): 22-33% CTA conversion. High-engagement webinars hit up to 69%. AI search (GEO/AEO): 4-5x higher conversion than traditional organic. One B2B study found AI-referred traffic converted at 7.12% vs 1.37% for organic. Another found 14.2% for AI traffic. Quora: 2-5% conversion. 35% of B2B decision-makers answer questions on Quora. Reddit: 0.3-1.5% post-to-customer conversion in fit subreddits. CPC of $0.50-$2.00 vs

... build HIPAA compliant AI for healthcare, and last month I deleted a feature I had just finished. It was a journey analytics module in our internal dashboard: stage by stage funnel, cohorts, drop off between every step. The module worked as designed. I removed it anyway. The reason is that I could not name one decision it had changed. I opened it, read the stages, agreed with them, closed the tab. It described the past accurately and left me where ... ... started, because a funnel

... than 5 paying customers. The freemium tier was way too generous, but the core issue was that management had zero visibility into why people weren't upgrading. The first thing I did was jump into Mixpanel to audit their funnel and look for user journey drop-offs. That's when I found a much deeper engineering problem. Their data tracking was completely fragmented. Their ecosystem had a web and a mobile app, which naturally should have user identities ... ... with the engineering team and forced a complete overhaul of their tracking architecture. We mapped custom identity aliases across all their platforms so that a single user's journey was unified from initial site visit to final product action. Funnel

... everyone, I just finished building the dev version of my landing page and I d really love to get some feedback on it. I can t share the LP directly here because it includes the Stripe dev funnel, and if the Stripe dev funnel

... road: whether to double down immediately on aggressive paid distribution or spend those first weeks refining onboarding based on launch feedback. From analyzing recent SaaS releases, a recurring pattern shows up: startups often see high top-of-funnel traffic during launch week, but bounce rates spike on cold channels (like LinkedIn or Meta Ads) because abstract AI features are hard to demonstrate visually in under 15 seconds. On the other hand, focusing purely on product tweaks without an active acquisition ...

... Gehadul Islam, a SaaS founder and builder working on AI-driven products, funnels, and automation tools. Lately I ve been building around AI SaaS, no-code workflows, productized services, and community-based education. I spend most of my time testing ideas, building MVPs, improving funnels

... tool in another, content doc in a third, and a chatbot that can't see any of their actual data. What we built: a unified growth platform with three pillars in a single subscription. - Product analytics: cookieless, Mixpanel-grade funnels, cohort heatmaps, and segments without SQL - AI SEO engine: research to brief to finished post, grounded in your site, your knowledge base, and live web sources. Publishes to WordPress or Ghost automatically - Data copilot: an AI assistant that can actually ... ... your real events, funnels

... founders to sign up for Causo after launch. Nice number. Felt good for about 12 seconds. Then we looked at the funnel properly and got humbled pretty fast. 253 created a company profile. 92 completed onboarding. 90 got matched with investors. 38 actually launched outreach. 18 became paying customers. So yeah, top of funnel

... each bad hire costs over 200k. must have problem for HR. three. the 92 percent of work that linkedin never covered. plumbers, nurses, electricians have never had a portable record. that is the most must have segment because the alternative is no record at all. when receipts replace resumes, all three solve at once. that is the wedge. @anna_ludwinowski   Comment from Briana Pole(@briana_pole): Problem first, every time. A slick demo tells me what a product does ... ... more than any UI polish did. So yeah, I d say naming the problem is the actual unlock. The demo just has to not get in the way of it. Comment from Viraj Parab(@viraj_parab): StartupHQ to organize competitor

... Cursor: coding Supabase: backend and auth Vercel: hosting GitHub: version control Google Search Console: SEO Campix: my own project, camp software, yes I'm biased Comment from Hans Desjarlais(@ismaelyws): Gmail Calendly Claude Code Google Docs & Sheets VS Code Comment from Bill Davis(@billspaced): @nolan_vu  Slack, not because I love it but because everything dies without it. YESSSSSSSSSSSSS Comment from Bill Davis(@billspaced): @riya_pariyar   @benfleming   @asapx  same question... never heard ... ... solo founder, these are the five tools I use almost every day: ChatGPT VS

... worth ad dollars at a tiny budget, and which are a money pit? I'm doing daily build-in-public content on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and X, but I honestly can't tell yet what's driving downloads versus just views. If you've cracked early distribution for a consumer app, I'm all ears. Product Hunt Launch: https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Comment from Indra Dasari(@indra_dasari): Building Book Dentist Online We're creating an AI-powered platform that helps ... ... right audience. Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): @thenameisarian  Interesting, alternative

... work across sales, marketing, and data workflows, mostly around CRM hygiene, lead quality, funnel visibility, enrichment accuracy, and reporting. I m especially interested in products that reduce duplicate records, improve routing, clean up messy fields, and make pipeline data easier for sales teams to trust. More automation is only useful if the underlying process is clean. I like tools that help teams act on better data, not just generate more dashboards or more leads for reps to ignore. Comment from ...

... reviewed a few early-stage startup products recently and noticed the same pattern repeatedly: users dropping during onboarding weak conversion funnels unclear feature priorities operational friction slowing growth Most early-stage startups don t fail because their technology is weak. They struggle because product execution becomes inconsistent while trying to scale with limited resources. Hiring a full-time Product Manager early on is also expensive for many founders. So I wanted to try something different. My name is Tharun Katta ... ... focus on Product Execution, Funnel

... From idea e-book funnel first lead in minutes That s the problem we wanted to solve with AI Funnel

... When Anand first mentioned Scope, it was pretty much pre-idea, pre-everything. But having sparred with him in the ring, I knew this guy is onto something great. Soon later, Scope got into YC P26. Scope realized whole funnel for a software product is shifting, coding agents are directly reading docs and choosing setups without buyer intervention, and most companies have zero visibility into any of it. What Scope is up to We run real workflows across Claude Code ... ... Codex, Cursor, and other agents on real customer products, then surface where the agent picks a competitor

... Most product teams track acquisition, activation, retention. The usual funnel. We track all of that at Murror too. But there's one metric we started paying attention to that changed how we think about growth entirely: how often users talk about themselves differently after using the product. Not NPS. Not referrals. Not even engagement time. We look at the language shift. When someone starts a session saying "I don't know why I keep doing this" and ends it saying ... ... behavioral side, we use NLP to detect shifts in how users describe themselves and their experiences across sessions. On the survey side, we do occasional lightweight check-ins that ask users to reflect on how they see themselves now vs

... four parts: Part What It Does Categories Sub-types within the domain. E-Commerce has "Multi-Category Store". Gaming has "Match-3", "Idle", and "Casual". Each activates different analysis strategies. Analysis Areas The patterns to look for like "Conversion Funnel", "Revenue & Pricing", or "Customer Retention". Prompts Markdown instructions that guide the AI through exploration, analysis, and recommendations. Profile Schema A form where users describe their business KPIs, business model, product catalog so the AI can tailor its analysis. DecisionBox ... ... what tables are available, and lays out a phased strategy: start broad with baseline metrics, deep-dive into each analysis area, then look for cross-area correlations. It even includes example SQL queries tailored to e-commerce conversion funnels

... walk away . Third, buyers do not trust you yet. They have been burned before. They are skeptical. They are not ready to commit. Fourth, no one takes action. You did everything right. But there is no movement. The funnel is full. Progress is slow. "Just launch" does nothing to solve these barriers. It just launches you straight into them. What actually works Before you build, validate the problem. Not the solution. The problem. Talk to buyers, not just users ... ... same as momentum. You can ship quickly and still arrive nowhere if you have not earned the right to be in the room. Earning that right takes patience. Patience is not popular. It is just true. The problem vs

... were only concerned w/ my wellbeing I'd do the same, but when I have others I'm responsible for, and they themselves have mouths to feed, I think differently about the long term effects of my brand vs my company/product. Comment from Gabe Moronta(@mogabr): @kabirsalunkhe   @busmark_w_nika   @deangelo_hinkle   @henry_lindsey  Henry, I don't think you separate it, especially when you built it around your brand/identity. You just sort of outgrow ... ... launch. We've analyzed more than 6000 launches and the most common among top launches are because the founders arleady had a solid PH profile with engagements. Comment from Samir Asadov(@samir_asadov): For specialist/practitioner products this 'brand vs

... automations on specific posts, schedule them for upcoming ones, or trigger them retroactively on comments up to 7 days old. All of these combined mean that whether you run a simple comment-to-DM flow or a multi-step funnel for all of Instagram, we have you covered. Campaigns: Multimedia sends, audience customization, scheduling, branching logic, and a full template library across industries so you're never starting from scratch.CRM: Custom properties, 30+ filters to segment your audience, and insights ... ... scenario and share it as a template, giving others a much stronger starting point than a blank canvas. Then there's a smaller but fascinating third group doing things we didn't fully anticipate. Full end-to-end Instagram funnels