... keep noticing is that products often try to explain everything before the user has done anything. Feature tours, tooltips, welcome screens, setup questions all before the user has experienced the core value. I used to assume more explanation meant less confusion. Now I m not so sure. The products I remember most clearly tend to get me to one useful action first, then explain things when they become relevant. I d be interested in how other makers think about this ...

... using AI for the last 3 months to generate images, code snippets, and ideas for small projects. It's super fast, but I noticed I m starting to prompt instead of thinking from scratch, and my own ideas feel less original. For those of you who build products with AI tools every day has AI made you personally more creative or less

... built around where you've worked, your education, and your job history. On Forg, the emphasis is on the things you're building, the projects you're involved in, and the people building around you. That makes Forg feel less like a traditional career network and more like a professional network for people who make things. Its discovery layer is also an important part of the idea. Forg Discover is designed around finding people who are building interesting things ... ... where founders share their stories and where entrepreneurs can learn from those examples. It was founded in 2016. The discussions can range from validating an idea to pricing, marketing, growth, hiring, and everything that happens after launch. It is less

... numbers they put on the screen. Scores, percentages, charts, readiness, recovery, fatigue. At some point I stop knowing what I m actually supposed to do. I m working through this problem right now and I m leaning toward showing less: one clear recommendation, a simple explanation of why, and the deeper data only when someone wants it. But there s a tradeoff. Too little information can make the system feel like a black box. Too much makes it feel like ...

... sensitive company data matters too. Comment from Stephanie Tang(@stephanie_t0317): I think the quality of feedback often matters more than the number of testers. A hundred users who don t have the problem you re solving may provide less useful insight than ten users who deeply experience the pain point. I also like the combination of expert users and target users you mentioned. Experts can identify usability issues and broken patterns quickly, while actual users reveal whether the product ... ... missing feature. Early validation is not only about collecting feedback it s about finding signals that people would genuinely miss the product if it disappeared. Comment from Ambar Singh(@alexbieber12341): There's no magic number for us, it was less

... mostly to speed up the process). But whenever I see and suspect that something is generated by LLMs, I feel that the person on the other side has slopped it a bit (and subconsciously I perceive it as "something less"). I have to say that some outputs that look really high quality and I have trouble distinguishing them from "handwork" are perceived as completely normal (at least for me). As equal human work. How do you view things generated ... ... artificial intelligence? Maybe it's true that who is behind the output and prompting also influences the result (professional vs

... safe" picks highest traffic, but also the most competing launches you're up against Monday can be a trap it's often clogged with everything that waited out the weekend to go live Friday and weekends have way less volume, but also way less

... from my country had a pretty interesting discussion about how they justify charging a higher price for an output generated by AI. Since AI came on the scene, we kind of expect the job to be done faster with less effort and the result is satisfactory. Does that mean the buyer has the right to ask for a lower amount? I don t know. Because several parameters come into the process: using state-of-the-art models an expert human ... ... more? Comment from Richard Acheampong (@richatsealedvault): Very interesting discussion. The fact that I hired an expert person (AI) does not mean the product is cheaper is my answer. Surely if the creator thinks, the cost of production is less

... developer who finishes a task in two hours through experience, automation, or better tooling can appear less hardworking than someone who takes the entire day. The reward for being efficient is often more work, while long hours remain the most visible signal of effort. This creates the wrong incentive. People learn to look busy instead of improving how they work. We re building Meridian to make the work behind outcomes visible, from commits and pull requests to Jira updates ...

... Funded and closed $290K. Obviously, no platform can guarantee someone a term sheet. But it showed us that when founders have active investor data, verified contact information, good outreach, and consistent follow up, the process can become a lot less chaotic. I ll be sharing more here about what we re learning while building Round Funded, the mistakes founders make while raising, and what fundraising actually looks like behind the scenes. Anyone can raise. www.roundfunded.com ...

... built Mustham API, a multi-model API platform that provides access to: GPT Claude Gemini Grok You can choose the specific model and route you want instead of having different sources silently mixed together. Many routes are priced at less than half of the corresponding official API price. The platform also provides direct support. If you encounter problems with integration, streaming, latency, stability, or model configuration, we will help investigate them. Free testing credits Register at https://api.mustham.com Open ... ... Community section Post your username and ask for testing credits We will add free credits to your account I m especially looking for feedback from developers using real coding workflows, including Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, VS

... vocabulary shifted this year. We used to call the job prompt engineering how do I phrase this. Now the serious version is context engineering, and Anthropic's own guidance frames it well: the quality of an agent depends less on the model than on how you structure everything it sees at inference time. The prompt is one line in a much bigger decision about what makes it into the window at all. Here's what that actually means ... ... decision at Murror that looked, on the surface, like a product or privacy call: we made the AI forget most of what you'd told it every 30 days. We expected it to make the reflections worse, because less

... uncomfortable part. A two-year Finnish study of nearly 2,000 chatbot users found that AI companions really can ease loneliness in the short term but heavy long-term use tracked with more anxiety and depression, not less. Researchers keep pointing at the same culprit: the engagement mechanics. The nudges, the "I missed you," the bot that's always available, always agreeable, always one more message away. The exact loop that makes a companion app look healthy on a retention ... ... pointed the wrong way by default. So here's the principle I keep coming back to, and the one I think outlasts every new rule that gets written: the goal of emotional AI should be to make itself less

... about what happens after launch day. Do you keep posting updates in your product's forum even months later, or is the attention mostly gone once the initial wave settles? Curious what's actually worked for you long-term vs. what just felt like effort without payoff. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @irahimiam  I can't say that commenting will help you; it is a part of building awareness about your personal brand and presence. That counts more ... ... other reason is cost. Every attempt that comes back rejected is another rejection sitting on a young account, and I have no way of knowing whether those accumulate. So the test costs me something and the answer is worth less

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... overwhelmed, scrolling through dozens of meditations or trying to choose the "right" exercise can become another source of friction. It made me wonder whether wellness products sometimes optimise for larger libraries when what people really need is less choice and faster support. It completely changed how I started thinking about designing for stressful moments. Curious if others building in health or productivity have noticed the same thing. Does reducing choice sometimes create a better user experience ...

... suddenly lose access to all AI. But what happens if , one day, access to the leading American models is restricted more broadly? We would still have European models, open-source systems we can operate ourselves, and Chinese alternatives. But there is no guarantee that another major power would never make the same decision to protect its own strategic advantage. AI is no longer just another software category. It is becoming infrastructure. It will shape education, healthcare, national security, research ... ... world are American, and Europe should continue working closely with the United States. But cooperation and dependency are not the same thing. Technological sovereignty does not mean refusing to use foreign technology. It means having a real alternative

... under `Shell extensions`. Session Memory Scroll positions and active tabs are restored when you switch away from a page or pane and come back during the same session. Navigator Performance Browsing large folders and media is faster and uses less memory. - Cold loading : faster first load when opening directories; - Icon loading : custom and system icons appear with less

... worker. For UI testing, a remote headed browser is not just a convenience. It changes the debugging loop. Instead of asking "what did the script think happened?", you can ask "what did the user actually see?" ### Harness Code vs Local Agent Harness Another important decision is where the agent capability should come from. One option is to build the entire reasoning layer yourself: call an LLM API directly, manage prompts, retries, tool calls, screenshots, JSON parsing, and safety rules. That ... ... gives maximum control, but it also means the test harness becomes an AI platform project. The alternative

... times this week." "Your mood tends to dip on Sunday evenings." Users loved it in demos. They called it "impressive" and "insightful." Our internal metrics looked great -- pattern detection accuracy was 87%. But something was off. People were journaling less over time, not more. After two weeks, entries got shorter. After a month, many users stopped entirely. We ran exit interviews. The answer surprised us: people felt watched. One user said, "I started filtering what I wrote because I knew ... ... would analyze it." Another said, "It felt like journaling for a therapist who's always grading you." The feature we were proudest of was making people less

... work. It always felt a little awkward because I grew up in an environment where drawing attention to yourself wasn't really encouraged. That's not exactly ideal when you're trying to build a business, and even less so when marketing is literally how you make a living. :D I never had a problem promoting other people's products. Just my own. Now I'm in the same situation again. I'm building a LinkedIn plugin ... ... approached solving them Using the product as an example rather than making every post an advertisement For example, while building Tendr, I could constantly say "Tendr helps you plan and book your celebration." But that's much less

... files or a folder, it only gives the AI model the option to look at them rather than force-feeding the context in full, which gives you less control and subpar responses. I still don't know how to properly describe why someone would want to do that, and it matters less

... 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 ... ... Justin Verlin(@justin_verlin): Claude Code VS

... week. But the users who come through word-of-mouth stay longer, engage more meaningfully, and genuinely get value from the product. We're still figuring this out. Curious if anyone else is building something where success looks like less usage, not more. How are you telling that story? Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): @monatruong_murror  Sure, I hope that the metrics can help founders like us to improve our product better off Comment from Riya Pariyar(@riya ... ... pariyar): liked the framing, but I'd push back slightly. I don't think the goal is less

... first we thought it was a product issue maybe the onboarding was off, maybe the prompts were wrong. But when we dug into the data, we found something we didn't expect: the smarter the AI got, the less people felt like they were doing the work themselves. Here's the problem. When someone journals about a difficult relationship and the AI immediately identifies the pattern, names the emotion, and suggests a reframe it feels impressive. But it also short ... ... learning that the best AI companion isn't the one with the best answers. It's the one that asks the best questions. This is hard to build and even harder to sell. "Our AI is deliberately less