... nobody cared much about anyway. the unlock is when the system has enough of a track record that approval becomes the exception, not the default. curious how you're thinking about building that trust layer over time. Comment from Nico Trefasim(@nico

... guess they didn't see also, i went live today would love your eyes on it if you get a sec Comment from Noah Wertim(@noah_wertim): This might finally save me from random sticky notes everywhere. Comment from Nico Trefasim(@nico

... spending time with friends, I felt like my brain is still working. Wonder whether there is a way to slow it down whenever I want. (My brain do slow down when I caught a cold, but......) Comment from Nico Lumma(@nico

... Complete Travel Toolkit   https://tripsy.app/ @TrustMRR  The database of verified startup revenues   https://trustmrr.com/ @Type.link  Create your site from amazing widgets   https://type.link/ @ViralSort  Discover Instagram content that worked for your competitors   https://www.viralsort.com/ There were even more tools I loved, but some domains expired, or the projects quietly disappeared in the meantime. Overall, the Entertainment/Fun category completely dominated my favourites this year. What about you? Which 2025 launches blew you away? Which ... ... category did you end up loving the most? Comment from Nico

... many powerful features coming up, and we can t wait to share them with you. Come try out YouMind we d love to be your companion on the journey of creation Comment from M. Qasim(@m_qasim67): Congrats Nico and the team YouMind looks amazing. I like how you ve put everything a creator needs in one place. Wishing you all the best with the launch! Comment from Shabnam Katoch(@shabb_katoch): grats on launch nico

... build mobile apps. Soon hitting 50 new signups daily. All these signups came with massive LLM costs. Starting with just ~$4K, we burned through 30% of our budget in the first week with only $260 MRR. Our well-funded competitors offered 5 free code gen requests daily (30/month), while we provided just 1 request/user lifetime. Talked to users, they wanted to explore platform for free but even with our minimal free tier, costs were eating up our savings. Traffic kept ... ... blogs. We approached VCs but got no replies. We pivoted to a paid-only model after burning 60% of our funds. Still getting ~50 daily signups from our @daily.dev blog, but users expected the same free plans as competitors

... that yet my take: vibecoding gets you to a working product. everything after that is the same grind it always was. the code is maybe 20% of shipping something real Comment from Edward Michaelson(@emikes919): check out nico jeannen. he's on twitter, youtube, etc. Pumps out 20 apps a year and sold 2 for 300K total. I interviewed him on my channel. Great story. probably has many vibecoding stories! Comment from Nico

... video calls, but there was a niche of people who used Skype to make cheap international calls to mobile and landline numbers. That was a golden opportunity major playing leaving the market, and its users scrambling for an alternative. That s how I made Yadaphone. I took one feature of Skype I used myself making cheap overseas calls, and created a website that allowed people to do it. Launch I built an MVP in a weekend. The design was minimalist ... ... real lucky for first time. One of users, became a super-fan of my product. He started giving a lot of feedback and promoting my app among his friends. His testimonial is still featured on my landing page (hi Nico

... intend to accomplish by the end of 2025? Comment from Alexandru Rada(@alxrda): What are the efforts to deal with spam and bots getting after you outside ProductHunt to get your vote? Comment from Gabe Perez(@gabe): @nico_jeannen I ll do an AMA on this next Comment from Rajiv Ayyangar(@rajiv_ayyangar): @zeeb0t  what was your latest launch and the copy-cat? Hard to give context without specifics. Comment from Rajiv Ayyangar(@rajiv_ayyangar): @manuhortet make a tagline ... ... need to know whether you can build it. There were numerous other lessons we learned from YC, and many lifelong friends. But overall I think my takeaway was: speed. Also: launch sooner! Comment from Rajiv Ayyangar(@rajiv_ayyangar): @nico