... After four long years of grinding, building, fundraising, and hiring, we decided to pivot. I wanted to write down my thought process and timeline because I wish I d seen more honest pivot

... pivoting HeyMeetAI . Not because it failed, but because talking to users changed the direction. So I'm building HeyMeetAI as a website-embedded demo that lets visitors explore the product live before talking to sales. Here's a short glimpse of what the new HeyMeetAI will look like https://youtu.be/sqWTXD1oY-w?si=... Your feedback is highly appreciated. Comment from KC(@kc_sheffield): So the user can stop the video presentation and asks questions?? kind of like a rag with a whiteboard ...

... writing their first pitch deck A marketer drafting an email at 11pm Someone rewriting their CV for a new job A PM vibe coding a new tool Each use case has a story. Today I m sharing ours. The pivot behind Pretty Prompt . Would love to know - what's YOUR pivot

... probably felt this moment: You have the idea. You might even have a prototype. But you re standing at a fork in the road, and no one can tell you which path is the right one. Do I pivot or push forward? Do I hire or wait? Do I spend this money now or hold it? Is this signal real or am I just hoping it is? We built ImpactOS out of frustration with how often founders and operators ... ... careless but because clarity is rare when you re in the weeds. Everyone tells you to move fast and trust your gut, but very few tools help you slow down just enough to see the tradeoffs clearly. For people pivoting

... When adaptation costs more energy than execution. The company announced its fifth major strategic pivot in eighteen months. The new mission statement was exciting, dynamic, and completely negated the last six months of her team's work. She realised that the constant need to adapt, re-learn, and discard old systems was costing more energy than actually doing the job itself. The exhaustion wasn't from working hard; it was from the perpetual, destabilising effort of turning the ship every ...

... project. The 20-second check-in showed his energy was depleted, his mood low. The initial plan was scrapped. Instead of forcing high-output work, he dedicated the first hour to light, restorative tasks. The data allowed him to pivot quickly, not from failure, but from predicted burnout. Please start your free onboarding and make this world a btter place with this "thermometer". A heartbeat thought by Christian van Gils Use your thermometer for sickness leave prevention: www.pulseboard.nl ...

... years in Senior role (kills momentum) Key Features Vector Map Visual metro-style career path Job Offer Reality Check Scores toxicity (0-100), flags red flags Skills Dashboard Prioritized learning roadmap Transition Intelligence Find "bridge roles" for career pivots B2B Dashboard For schools tracking placement rates Why It's Different Not a job board. Not a personality test. Not a coaching marketplace. - Built on 1M+ real LinkedIn profiles (data, not opinions) - Instant (2 min) vs

... think pivoting means tearing everything down and starting over or taking a hard left turn and never looking back For us, we ve learned that a pivot

... real pressure, real investor conversations, real crises, captured exactly as they happened. We gathered the 40 founders from our accelerator, put cameras on them for 4 months, and filmed their journey across 15 countries. The wins, the breakdowns, the pivots, the co-founder tensions... everything! And today The Founder Games is officially streaming worldwide on: Player+ (worldwide) Voyo (Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Gley (N.Macedonia) Think Shark Tank meets The Apprentice, but raw, documentary-style, filmed in the field, with ... ... founders Solo founders stuck in their own head Teams preparing for fundraising Accelerators looking to rethink talent selection Investors scouting founders under pressure Anyone who wants to see the truth behind entrepreneurship You ll see real crisis simulations, real pivots

... Yall, Rishi here with Sinosend. WeTransfer is the GOAT, but their recent terms changes, non-stop ads, and regional blocks in Asia were a dealbreaker for our business. That's why we built Sinosend, a compelling alternative to the grandaddy's of the file transfer industry. The $45k Mistake & The Pivot

... courses to be led by the hand to the desired learning goal. This is because it was easier and more familiar for people. State school and institutes formed such an educational experience for most people on the planet. A pivot towards selling any content at all didn't help the startup because there were already many strong competitors

... Another pivot for me. What it is It s a single hub for founders, organized by stage (Ideation Launch Growth Scale) with a Must Have Resources page featuring 20+ vetted tools across Legal, Finance, Product, Marketing, and more all filterable by category, stage, and pricing. On top of that, it has built-in chat so you can connect with mentors, co-founders and investors, and it integrates with Slack so your workflow stays in one place. Basically: less time Googling ...

... preparing to launch Instinct MI450 GPUs on TSMC s 2nm node, potentially beating Nvidia on efficiency. Its revenue mix is shifting fast with over half projected to come from AI & data center by 2026. We analyzed what this pivot means for the global compute economy and whether AMD can actually challenge Nvidia s GPU dominance. Read the full analysis: [Insert Oplexa blog link here] Includes: Real data on AMD s AI deal capacity Node transition efficiency visuals ...

... random folks, just people you like). Our Journey So Far: -> Initial concept originated 2 years ago -> Dev started 75 days ago -> Applied for YC 60 days ago for an APP MVP and got rejected -> Pivoted to an Email Client MVP 45 Days ago -> Opened waitlist where you can join and build your circle ( If you are interested, you can click this) -> Started Testing 3 Days Ago -> Launching soon That s where ... ... right now. Curious to hear what this community thinks of the direction and if you ve had similar pivot

... 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. strategic persistence. You bet with your time. 9. SaaS multiples are often fantasy, especially for smaller businesses. If you are below $1M ARR and/or have no aggressive growth potential, do not expect 7-12x multipliers. 10. Lifetime deal buyers ... ... users, too. 11. You only know if your founder is a good fit when your startup struggles. First, it's the honeymoon phase, excited to start a new business. Then comes the though painful slug and extreme pressure to pivot

... questions I get is How often can you publish a product on Product Hunt? The guidelines state this clearly: "You can launch as often as you have new significant product iterations available." If you ve made major updates or pivoted your product, you can relaunch it on Product Hunt , even if it hasn t been 6 months since your last launch. To do so, submit a request explaining the significant changes, and the team will review and let you know ... ... Product Hunt this year? :) Comment from Arian(@arina_chen): This makes sense. I m curious from your experience, what kind of updates usually get approved as significant by the PH team? New features, redesigns, or even just a pivot

... everyone! I'm Adharsh, AI-product builder and enthusiast. Looking forward to interacting with the folks here and build my career with a pivot into product management. I have tangential work experiences in consulting and SaaS, hoping to leverage that to benefit the broader product community and build impactful GenAI products. If you have any insights on making a successful pivot

... have a coding background. I d really love if you could try it out and let me know what you think what works, what doesn t, or what could be better. Here s the link: https://pivotguru.xyz/ Comment from Roshin Shabu(@roshin_shabu): @kristopher_sorensen  Thank you so much for your feedback - I will definitely keep it in mind and will update you when the new version is up. Comment from Roshin Shabu(@roshin_shabu): Thank you to everyone ... ... tried out PivotGuru

... active users, 10-minute sessions and $20,000 in MRR. Yet users churned quickly traction didn t equal stickiness. After hundreds of growth experiments we finally pulled the plug, trimmed the team from 12 to 2, and plunged into pivot hell. Dozens of dead ends later, I flew to San Francisco hunting for answers. On a quick walk in Dogpatch, Tom Blomfield (Monzo Bank/GoCardless) hit me with the line that finally cut through the fog: Move fast caution kills startups ...

... about this a lot lately.... If LLMs keep pulling from blogs, news platforms (and obviously other content sources) -> this results in ad revenue keeps shrinking for most folks reliant on this source of income -> what is the pivot for these creators? My wife runs a food blog that s heavily ad traffic based. Right now her niche (make based content seems to be some of the safest on the internet.. likely way worse for someone with ... ... information based blog) hasn t been hit too hard, but it feels like something that could change quickly. That s got us thinking about what a pivot

... that, we weren't even a consumer software company. By January, we were seeing long posts on LinkedIn and X about how the product had changed people s lives. We also saw ~20% of our users convert to paid (vs. the usual 3 4%), and organic growth of ~90% month-over-month in January and February. On average, users were doing around 100 dictations a day and typing only 25 30% of their total input on a keyboard ... ... bigger impact on their life than literally anything else. That was the only signal we really needed. Four Takeaways It took a lot of hard calls to get to that point. Here are the four that mattered most. #1: Pivot

... reminder that some of the best products aren t the original idea, they re what you discover when you listen to how people actually work and adapt fast enough to follow the signal. What s the weirdest pivot you ve made or seen someone pull ...

... July 27, 2025, our team marked a significant milestone: our @HuHu AI earned the coveted #1 Product of the Day ranking on Product Hunt. It was a defining moment after two years of iteration, pivots, and lessons learned. In the sections that follow, I ll take you through the full story behind how we got here from early failures and model training to working with real clients and relaunching with purpose-driven clarity. Starting too early: the first attempt ... ... customer acquisition cost was $30, and user LTV only $22. We hit a wall. The product didn t convert. The tech wasn t ready. So we made the tough call: we shut it down, went without pay, and pivoted

... years I watched early-stage founders spin their wheels for weeks or months trying to test ideas only to hit a wall or pivot too late. I did it myself. It drained time, cash, and energy. That experience drove me to build mvpAI, a lightweight tool that simulates investor feedback and user reactions in days not months. I m designing mockups and persona-driven tests so founders can avoid burnout and know whether to pivot

... When building a product as a startup, it s almost inevitable that you ll reach a point where you need to pivot, whether it s at the hypothesis stage or after launching a product. But how can we ensure that a pivot