... minimalist phone / digital-detox app for iPhone today and we appreciate your support . Anyway, here are a few things you can already do to reduce your smartphone usage: 1. Keep your phone out of sight Not just on silent, ideally in another room. Even its presence on your desk reduces focus. 2. Turn off non-essential notifications If something is truly important, people will call you. The rest is just algorithmic noise. 3. Make your phone visually boring Use grayscale ... ... keep only essential apps. Your phone should work for you, not against you. 4. Work in focused time blocks 30  60 minutes of deep work without your phone, followed by a short break. 5. Replace the habit, ideally

... everything. If you re selling luxury in a downturn, you re not reading the room. Here s what a great cold pitch looks like for me right now: Hey Dan, saw you founded Meet-Ting. I assume your biggest competitor is Calendly. Using our tool, I found XXX interesting insight about them that might help you. Want to see how we could surface more like that? That message nails it: they ve done their homework, they understand my business, they ... ... just testing the waters on the round, in which case say that "planning to go out for a seed round next month." If you list investors as committed/previously invested, make sure they actually are (and if past, are ideally

... Getting people to pay for your idea does not always mean you have validated it Be careful of selling $100 bills for $50. E.g., when you offer a lifetime deal or your personal time for services. Ideally, you want to get someone to pay you for a real problem. But finding real problems is tough (next point). 6. If you're targeting a saturated market, you need to look for implicit signals and incremental solutions, not "hair-on-fire" problems ... ... took us 3+ years to reach meaningful traction, and we were making $2k MRR in the first 2 years. Unfortunately, there's no formula to know whether you are on the right track or running a zombie. Sunk cost vs

... they have the right vibe. Offices? Only if colleagues aren t interrupting every five minutes. Personally, I m flexible about location. I can work from pretty much anywhere. But I do have two must-haves: a proper mouse, and ideally a second screen. Without them, my productivity drops. Simple as that. What about you? What are your non-negotiables for doing deep, focused work? Comment from Aleksandar Blazhev(@byalexai): @theideator  Same Ayush! Especially if that person nearby doesn ... ... busmark_w_nika): @byalexai  Yeah, outside I am only with my headphones :D Comment from Ajay Sahoo(@ajay27324): Absolutely, this is the only reason why people have offices, residences and other material powered earned assets next to topmost competitor

... life disappeared. It felt the same way as if, one day, nobody would be playing on Call of Duty 2 servers anymore (that hasn t happened yet, right?). Anyway, here I ve compiled a list of the top 6 alternatives to Skype for international calling. I used the following criteria to select them: VoIP-based . That means I only need an internet connection to use the service. Calls from most SIMs abroad are prohibitively expensive, and eSIMs typically include only ... ... like to buy a stable phone number that won t disappear randomly and isn t ridiculously priced (like many VoIP numbers are). Incoming calls . I only received incoming calls to Skype couple of times a year, but ideally

... many people launch products this way, even on Product Hunt, because, with these steps, such a product feels more like a scam than a serious business. If the business is not supposed to be a scam , please: Build trust, ideally also a personal brand, if you re serious about it. If you don t have testimonials from people yet, use a video where you demonstrate the product; ideally

... into this community's experience on price-setting for B2C software (ours helps job seekers). The long story short is we ve been leaning towards entering a fairly established market at significantly lower pricing (like ~4-5x) than competitors. The thesis is this will help us A) attract users in general, and B) drive better unit economics by focusing more on capturing paid users and not focusing (much?) on total user acquisition (paid + free). Here are my primary ... ... rich product, I m starting to have doubts that the pricing might cheapen product perception before users even give it a chance. How have you decided how much to give away for free if you do run free accounts ? Ideally