... thing you built that you thought was genius and nobody used? What signs did you ignore? Imed Radhouani Founder & CTO Rankfender Building things people actually use (and why I built Rankfender to stop guessing) Comment from Pratham Khodwe(@pratham

... Ahmed Rony(@faisal_ahmed_rony): @busmark_w_nika  Haha, fair point, Nika! :D Content and insights are indeed a different ballgame compared to software. @mario_gomez I really appreciate your perspective. Being self-funded definitely changes the 'free vs paid' equation as ROI becomes a priority from day one. I'm curious though without a free tier, how do you usually build that initial 'trust bridge' with new users? Do you find that detailed case studies or high-quality ... ... slight pivot to include either tooling or these sales personnel or other ideas. I'm still working through it. Comment from Takahito Yoneda(@y_taka): Your general versus

... community, I m Pratham from Maxim. After months of obsessing over speed, scale, and reliability, we're launching Bifrost , a blazing-fast, open-source LLM gateway built for real-world AI workloads. We built Bifrost because we were having scaling issues with existing gateways. So we went deep. Pure Go. Microsecond overhead. 1000+ models. MCPs. Governance. Self-hosted. Open source . It s the kind of infra product we wish existed when we were scaling our own stack ...