... really encouraged. That's not exactly ideal when you're trying to build a business, and even less so when marketing is literally how you make a living. :D I never had a problem promoting other people's products. Just my own. Now I'm in the same situation again. I'm building a LinkedIn plugin , and one of the main ways to get it in front of people is by talking about it on LinkedIn. The problem ... ... want people to see me as someone who's constantly selling. What would you recommend doing to promote a product

... talking about it, I couldn't validate whether it was worth building or improving the idea through feedback. I spent a lot of time on it, and it failed. Now: I have built a personal brand on 3+ platforms (Product Hunt, LinkedIn, X, Substack, YT). Community is more likely to answer my curious questions when I am building my own tool  early feedback. I am in the process of building and already talking about it (gathering email addresses ... ... waitlist , #buildinpublic on X, newsletter edition, mentioned it on LinkedIn, PH discussions, changing links on socials). I am planning to interview selected LinkedIn users who will test my product

... Everyone talks about building the next unicorn. But what if that's the wrong goal entirely? Here's a different mental model worth considering. Instead of spending 5 years chasing one product to $10M ARR, what if you built 10 20 smaller products

... probably move on. In fact, I think products with an average design but a very clear problem statement often perform better than products

... Build-in-public started as a genuinely good idea. Be transparent. Share your journey. Let people watch you build something from nothing. The openness creates accountability, builds audience, attracts early users who care about the product before it launches. For a lot of builders, it worked exactly like that. Then it became a content strategy. What Happened to Build-in-Public When enough people saw that building in public could attract an audience, the practice shifted. Instead of genuine transparency ... ... update. Week 6: excited to share the launch. Week 10: lessons from our first 100 users. Week 20: we are shutting down, here is what I learned. Every step packaged as content. Every milestone framed as a story. Every product

... Product Hunt. I am Elitza and I am the founder of own.page . We launched on Product

... have been looking at what is actually getting traction on Product Hunt right now. The pattern is clear. In March, OpenClaw products

... real access to a production database. I built the safety layer first (environment tagging, read-only enforcement on prod

... internally to provide platform analytics. Comment from Frank A,(@fasathor): My current 5: ChatGPT product thinking, copy, debugging, and planning Cursor / VS

... come to my mind are guerrilla campaigns in physical spaces, whose impact is then amplified by social media sharing, basically some kind of mediated experience that people talk about online. I know this will depend on the type of product, but how would you approach this? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @tina_chhabra  The thing is  what if AI can replicate human narrative? How will we be able to differentiate? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @chargewhat ... ... polished but I do think it lands better and ultimately reflects what I want to stand for. I could see a world where AI generated content (especially in Ads and Marketing) prompts a negative effect to the product

... There are a lot of products being hunted, launched, and competing for attention here. But I still see some makers missing the very basics. It got me thinking about putting together an "essentials package" of things that, in my opinion, every maker should have in place before deciding to launch their product

... shine a spotlight on the open-source ecosystem. What are the best OSS products launched on Product

... made building products dramatically easier. A solo founder can now create a landing page, prototype an app, generate designs, write code, and launch faster than ever before. That is exciting. But it also changes the game. Because when products

... Last week, @Kilo Code launched for the fourth time on Product Hunt, introducing a new VS

... buying. By churning. By the time you hear that feedback, you have already spent months building, thousands of dollars, and a lot of goodwill with your team. The research backs this up. A study of over 80,000 new product introductions found that roughly one in four new products

... launched on Product Hunt on April 9, 2026. From this launch, we ended up with: But the real work started weeks before launch day. With @bengeekly , we spent weeks trying to understand how @producthunt

... brand vsproduct they fail at timing clarity. Knowing when to show up

... tried something simple: recording our own calls and using those moments as content. What surprised us was how much easier it became. The content felt more natural, and it didn t feel like extra work anymore. That s how @ProdShort was born. It made us realize that many product

... this guide isn't just a quick summary. We're going to go deep. We'll explain exactly what Snaply is, how it works, why privacy matters so much for dictation tools, how it stacks up against every major alternative, who it's best for, and how to get the most out of it. Whether you're a solo professional, part of a team, or evaluating dictation software for an enterprise deployment, this is the most complete breakdown ... ... find. Table of Contents Why AI Dictation Matters in 2026 What Makes a Truly Great Dictation App What Is Snaply? Snaply's Core Features: In Depth Why Privacy Is Non-Negotiable for Dictation Snaply vs

... Every day, after launching, makers are contacted on LinkedIn and X by people offering to sell votes. As the Product Hunt team, we are very much aware of this and really hate it. We have systems in place to neutralize this type of gaming. Every vote counts for a different number of points on Product

... launching today, the leaderboard is about to get a lot more interesting. We are running a Randomized Day to give products launching more of an opportunity to get seen! The Mechanics To level the playing field, we are cycling the homepage layout throughout the day: The Loop: This cycle repeats every 30 minutes, all day long. 25 Minutes: The leaderboard will be completely randomized . 5 Minutes: The leaderboard will return to its standard ranked order . Hidden Points To keep ... ... focus on the products

... Last month, I did something that felt slightly insane. I took our product description, fed it into ChatGPT, and asked it to build a competitor

... Last month, I went down a rabbit hole. Product Hunt launches are every founder's obsession. Everyone wants to know the secret formula. So I used Rankfender to analyze 1,000 Product

... community. Yesterday we launched ClawSecure and landed #2 Product of the Day ClawSecure is the free security scanner for OpenClaw AI agent skills. But I'm not here to pitch. I just want to share real traffic numbers and what I actually learned from our Product

... selling online is broken. You design a product, order hundreds of units, pay for inventory, rent warehouse space, run ads and then hope people buy. Most don't. 82% of small businesses fail because of cash flow problems. What if you could flip that entire process? What if customers committed their money first , and you only produced