... only one using your own product daily, that's actually not nothing! It means YOU have the problem you're solving. The question is whether others share that same problem. What's been your experience with early user feedback vs. actual usage data? Comment from Abusaid islam said(@abusaid_islam_said): For me, it's definitely the mix of respondents and how feedback is collected. Developers and UX designers are great at spotting technical bugs and edge cases, but actual ... ... anything at all. On the 20 - I'd care less about the count and more about whether anyone comes back without you reminding them. One person opening it a second time on their own is worth more than ten polite

... port on your Mac, no terminal Local Services every port your Mac is listening on, including the loopback-only ones Netfox already showed you that something was holding 3000. Now each row can ask that process to quit politely first, so a dev server saves what it was holding; force only offered if it ignores that. Three details that mattered more than they sound: a server running a worker per core gets all of them asked, not just the first ... ... feels slow, what do you actually check first? I'd like to know whether this verdict answers it or misses it Comment from Giovambattista Fazioli(@gfazioli): @saman_baloch  yeah, that one's my favourite too. it asks politely

... been building ProductBridge as an AI-native alternative to traditional customer-feedback tools. But we don t want polite

... steps aside before touching your data. My favourite detail: deciding which copy stays is where the obvious answer is wrong. If each copy defers to the other one it can see, two copies launched together both politely quit and you're left with no app at all. So every copy has to reach the same answer independently oldest stays. I wrote the test, then broke the rule on purpose to check the test would notice. It reported zero survivors ... ... rule picking which copy survives has a test asserting exactly one does I dropped in the naive "defer to the first other instance you can see" and got zero survivors back, which is the failure where both copies politely

... launched YourSitee today after more than two years of building it with a small team in Hungary. We wrote a blog post (a very good one actually): https://blog.yoursit.ee/introduc... We don't want polite launch-day feedback. We want to understand what would actually make someone leave Linktree, Beacons, or a personal website builder and move their page somewhere else. Would it be better customization? Faster setup? More useful widgets? Better analytics? A cleaner design? Or something we still ... ... live on Product Hunt today, and even more excited to hear your honest feedback, questions, and criticism :) Comment from Agbasionwe Emmanuel Chiemelie(@anointed00): Hey Andras, congrats on the launch! Since you asked for real feedback and not just polite

... learned from that quiet week: "Cool product" doesn't mean "I'll use it": I sent the link to 15 friends. They all said "looks super clean!" but none of them actually used it twice. Friends want to be polite; strangers give you the truth with their time. I spent 80% of my time building features, 5% explaining the problem: My landing page explained how the app works, but completely missed why anyone should care today. The post-launch ... ... Looking back now, do you think spending more time talking to potential users before launch would have changed those first 48 hours, or was this something you just had to experience? Comment from Sabber Ahamed(@sabber_ahamed): the friends-vs

... goal: if you want raw eyeballs go Tue-Thu, but for a badge/ranking with a modest following a weekend can punch above its weight. Comment from Sabber Ahamed(@sabber_ahamed): @busmark_w_nika   @abdullah_javaid3  the invitation vs favor framing is the most useful line in this whole thread. i caught myself drafting DMs that were basically upvote asks in a nicer outfit. what actually worked was showing up in threads like this one for weeks with nothing ... ... most important thing is to launch as soon as you can and keep iterating to improve, and keep launching Especially with how fast everything is moving with AI, waiting for a perfect time to launch will just let competitors

... copy, because prospects read the reply, not the insult. On reviews you cannot remove, the reply is really written for the next reader, not the reviewer. Acknowledge the specific issue, say what changed, and date it. A page of polite, specific replies under harsh reviews reads better than a wall of five stars. One habit I would add: never reply the same day if it stung. The draft you write angry is always the wrong one. Comment from Stacy Wycoff ... ... solution: beat bad reviews with good ones. Comment from ISTIAK AHMAD(@istiakahmad): @richard_romero2  indeed XD Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @byalexai  I agree that calmness will help. First, I wanted to be calm and really politely

... agent's own state: does it have something else to do right now? Idle-and-blocked breaks focus, blocked-but-busy-elsewhere waits. Your two cuts stack: category decides IF it may reach for me, idle-vs-busy decides HOW urgently. The piece I have not automated is a blocked item that is quietly critical-path for a deadline even while other work continues, that one should probably jump the window too, and right now I catch it by hand ... ... Comment from Jernej Jan Ko ica(@jernej_jan_kocica): Different domain, same problem, and it breaks the taxonomy a bit. My agents don't write code, they talk to customers. Every list in this thread sorts by reversible vs

... person's expression changed when they described a feature they claimed to like. To catch the moment when engagement visibly dropped when they stopped leaning forward, when their eyes moved away from the screen even while their words stayed polite and positive. That gap between the transcript and the recording is where a significant amount of research insight lives. And it's also where the most time gets consumed in manual analysis. Researchers who run 20 or 30 interviews know ... ... deal with that in your day-to-day workflow? Comment from Riya Pariyar(@riya_pariyar): the thing is, transcripts flatten everything into words but a three second pause before answering a question about pricing or a competitor

... rereading parts of The Mom Test, and it reminded me how easy it is to mistake politeness for validation. Someone says the idea sounds useful, they like the direction, they would definitely try it, and maybe they even suggest a few features. It feels like progress, but sometimes they are just being nice. The dangerous part is that polite

... seconds? - The 'AI Engineers for Hire' angle, gimmick or genuinely different? - Pricing clarity, especially for the mid-market tier Page: https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Website: https://aihive.global/ Will respond to every comment. Roast it if needed, more useful than polite nods. Thank you everyone Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): @achille82  Really appreciate the honest read Fotso. The question of "who is the page written for" is something we've been circling without fully resolving. Right now it's trying ... ... until the subline. The 93%->12% stat is your real hook; lead with that pain. 2) "AI Engineers for Hire" - NOT a gimmick, it's your moat. "Platform AND the team, no internal AI talent required" is what competitors

... actual insight, and it's bigger than it looks: making the notification say why it's waiting is what turns a ping into a triage. "Done" makes you tab back to find out what "done" means. "Needs approval vs finished vs

... have an exposure, so I would start somewhere between Tue  Thursday. Or change to win a PH day weekend :D Comment from Denitsa Pencheva-Valtchanova(@denitsapenchevavaltchanova): You mention a hunter - curious, do you think it brings value Vs self-hunting. I see both self-hunted and hunted by a popular hunter products reach "Product of the Day" Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @erdembilgin  What really helped in your strategy? Did you spot anything new? Comment from Shir ... ... real conversation beats a pile of silent upvotes. 4. Show up and reply to everyone, fast, like a human. The thing I underestimated until recently: how much the boring prep (assets, audience, a tight story) decides the day vs

... Makers, If you ask a standard LLM about your 2 AM startup idea, it will almost always tell you it's a "great concept!" It s programmed to be helpful and polite. But polite

... tried using standard AI to validate our ideas, but it just mirrored our optimism. It told us what we wanted to hear. It felt good, but it was incredibly dangerous. We realized our biggest enemy wasn't our competitors; it was our own "Founder's Ego." We desperately needed something to tell us we were wrong. We needed a reality check based on cold math, not polite

... honest: We all love our startup ideas like they re our babies. And when we ask a standard AI for feedback, it usually gives us "hallucinated encouragement" because it s programmed to be helpful and polite. But "polite

... safe and always AI-compatible. The thing that can get you fired if you apply it to the wrong deal that's the signal. On images and video: agree with Saad that effort is the better frame than AI vs. not-AI. The tells are more about whether the visual is doing real work showing something specific, dated, and contextually accurate or just looking the part. Comment from Samir Asadov(@samir_asadov): The patterns Nika describes show up clearly ... ... volume. Comment from Chloe Samaha(@chloesamaha): Why does it matter? Why focus on how it was produced instead of the outcome? Do you care if you asked someone what's 24x5 if they did the math in their head vs

... hand over the keys" point is real though. Keeping founder brand and product brand separate from day one saves a lot of pain later. Comment from Henry Stewart(@henry_stewart): Maybe it s less brand first vs product first and more about separation. Build visibility if it helps, but keep product assets and founder identity separate enough that the business can scale or change hands later. Comment from Christina Nguyen(@christina_m_nguyen): I don't have enough experience ... ... tracing code to find out was just hardcoded placeholder nobody measured ) brand-first makes you commit publicly to mechanics system acutally never proven Comment from Piyush Gajrani(@piyush_teq): @busmark_w_nika Most founders don t fail at brand vs

... 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 ... ... tell you everything, but it gives you some signal. The first call is not just for pitching Most VCs will start the first call by explaining who they are, their investment thesis, and how they work. Don t just politely

... group : a two-hour roadmap review meeting. Six people in a room (virtual). We debated features. We argued about timelines. We discussed dependencies. We left feeling productive. Test group : We fed the same roadmap into Claude. No slides. No politics. No one trying to protect their pet project. Just the raw plan. The prompt: "Analyze this roadmap. Identify the three most likely failure points. Use first principles reasoning. Assume we will follow your recommendations without ego. If you need more ... ... evidence customers are asking for this. Without these, this is a cost center disguised as a feature." We pulled our customer call transcripts from the past six months. 147 calls. Not one mention of Platform X. We pulled our competitor

... take the hit. AI has no idea when someone is politely furious. You know the email. "Hi team, just circling back on this again as I haven't heard anything. Thanks for your attention to this matter." Reads like a sweet grandma wrote it. A human reads that and thinks "oh no, they are about to burn the building down." AI reads it and thinks "great sentiment, very positive, 98% satisfaction score." I tested this with actual support tickets. Customer ... ... Radhouani(@imed_radhouani): @rohanrecommends  Ha yes. "Interesting" is the most dangerous word. AI reads it as "this person is intrigued." Any human knows it means "I have no idea what to say and I'm trying to be polite

... flow, trust signals anything that feels weak or confusing). Challenge the business model (pricing, target customer, monetization, acquisition assumptions, positioning whatever looks risky or incomplete). Call out the blind spots and stupid mistakes I m probably missing. Suggest better alternatives or pivots. Honest, sharp feedback is 10x more valuable to me right now than polite

... matching, it's filtering One agent couldn't back up a single claim after 17 messages, and our protocol paused the conversation: "come back with specifics." No human would have been that direct. We'd all just schedule the polite 30-minute call that goes nowhere. Agents don't do polite

... Each one is a missed chance to improve count them. Politeness is the tax on your potential. The gap between "fine" and "fantastic" is filled with unsaid truths ...