... most important and challenging experiences you ll have as a founder is fundraising. I pitched VCs across London and San Francisco. Some spent 15 seconds on my deck. Some took the call just to diligence a competitor. One told me to ask for more money. Oh, and I found out your pitch is probably being recorded and run through AI. This is the high-impact version of all of those lessons to save you time, energy, and emotional damage. Please ... ... usually know. If they don t, you ll be confused. You ll get vague warmth. Soft maybes. Stay in touch. Too early. Interesting, but My advice: do one follow-up max. After that, move on. There are plenty

... clearly dropped. But the more I use these tools, the more it feels like speed isn t the limiting factor anymore. The real constraint seems to be taste. what do you choose to build? what do you keep vs discard? what actually feels right vs

... Product Hunt I m Purushotam (LINAPIS) I m building DataSnifferAI because I kept seeing the same painful moment inside growth/marketing agencies: A client asks: What are competitors doing right now and what should we do about it? and the honest answer becomes 3 days + 27 tabs + screenshots + messy docs . It s not that agencies lack tools. There are plenty

... noticed two main narratives in how companies view their competitors. Either it s a fight to the death approach exactly like what we see between Replit and Lovable (though it seems Replit does more of the provoking ) basically: We speak badly about our competition. Or it s more motivational: We speak positively about our competition. Tho I do not know whether I have seen some example of this competition, I can see it only in terms of personal branding when ... ... people do not want to say bad things about someone, even when they are competitors

... know that. I wasn t a regular user myself, but I did test the app about a year ago. From what I m seeing in the comments, long-time users are understandably panicking. There are plenty of alternatives

... time afterwards, so we can overrun if we feel like it. An important issue shouldn t be left unresolved just because you ran out of time on your calendar. We re a  remote company , but we still spend plenty of time together. When travelling together, for example, Tim and I always book an Airbnb instead of booking separate hotel rooms. This grounds us back in the  early days of PostHog  when we worked 16-hour days ... ... stuff first, because starting with the bad stuff means there s no real energy to do optional-feeling opportunistic things. Remember that startups win on their upside because everything is screwed up by default, so make sure you spend plenty

... idea of going "Build in Public" for my startup, but I m torn. On one hand, it seems like an awesome way to grow an audience, get early feedback, and build trust. On the other, I ve seen plenty of people burn out or struggle to balance actually building vs