... bunch of strict rules for myself when starting out about keeping things simple and never taking quick shortcuts. A couple years in half of those rules are gone because reallife hit and decisions got way more complicated. How do you tell if you're just adjusting to

... have clicked on so many of these landing pages that they all blend together. Same pitch every time: record your calls, get automatic summaries, clean up your life. Thing is, I do not actually know a single person in real

... part? I know the information. I understand hormones. I know what works. My friends know too. We're just... too busy to actually do it, or we forget, or we don't know how to make it fit into reallife. So I started building a tool to help with that. It turned into this app. The

... full Dexi access at no cost , including after launch Direct access to our team Early access to new capabilities A real say in what we build and improve In return, we re asking you to use Dexi in real

... decided to pay myself the least on the team so we could put as much money as possible into the product and the people building it. That sounds honourable. In reality, you re adding more pressure to your life at exactly the moment your stress is reaching new peaks. Pay yourself a reasonable amount. 3. Focus on truth-seeking. When you re inside a large company, it s easy to abstract the truth. A campaign report lands and you find ... ... before it was cool. We convinced her to join. July We launched here on Product Hunt and finished sixth, despite starting from zero and launching on the same day as OpenAI and several established products. The launch created real

... interaction to solve a very specific challenge: making group dynamics seamless and fun. From programming multiplayer party games with cyberpunk designs to building tools that help friends sync up, I love using modern web tech to connect people in reallife. That is exactly why I built HolidayHub Elite , a sleek PWA designed to turn the nightmare of group vacation planning into a shared, stress-free experience. I ve poured a lot of passion into making it fast and collaborative ...

... judgment. Comment from Ali Rehan(@ali_rehan1): @dawid_baranowski  Great thoughts! Comment from Dawid Baranowski(@dawid_baranowski): @ali_rehan1  to me it's not really a when, it's a 'how' you use automation. My own reallife example: The way I use automation in my own outbound emails is I write a golden standard sequence by hand, per given market segment or ICP. Then, I let my automation vary specific bits of it (eg change subject line ...

... story, "finding real founders with real

... When we first launched Murror, the number one feature request was always the same: "Can I talk to the AI?" Users wanted a chatbot. Something they could vent to, ask for advice, get instant feedback from. Every competitor had one. Every investor asked why we didn't. So we built it. The first month looked incredible. Session times tripled. Users came back more often. The engagement charts were exactly what you'd want to show in a board meeting. Then ... ... tells you what you're feeling or why. The engagement numbers dropped back down. But the outcomes we actually care about users reporting they feel understood, users resolving recurring worries, users feeling confident enough to have hard conversations in real

... like many founders, I lost my mind in a very professional way. We added AI this. AI that. AI summaries. AI tools. AI panels. AI buttons. AI things that probably looked good in a pitch deck but, in reallife, mostly sat there like expensive furniture nobody wanted to touch. The product got bigger. Slower. Weirder. The funny part is that every feature had a totally reasonable explanation. Creators will love this. Teams need this. This makes us more powerful ... ... just less nonsense. AI is useful when it helps the product. It is ridiculous when the product becomes a delivery vehicle for the word AI. So DROP is smaller now. Faster. Clearer. Less impressive in screenshots, more useful in

... Product Hunt community I m Casey, the founder of Traction by Tightrope Studio. I m building Traction with my mom, and the idea comes from reallife for us. I ve worked in sales, digital advertising,

... stories about moments that changed something real, not features they liked. This shifted our entire roadmap. We stopped building for retention loops and started building for "transfer moments" the points where insight moves from the app into someone's real

... called "outcome metrics." Instead of tracking how long someone stayed, we tracked whether they reported feeling more clarity after a session. Instead of measuring return frequency, we measured whether people said they applied something from Murror in a reallife situation. The results were counterintuitive. Some of our most "engaging" features scored terribly on outcomes. A beautiful interactive visualization that users loved to play with was not actually helping them understand anything about themselves. And a simple, almost boring ... ... everything about how we build. Comment from Mona Truong(@monatruong_murror): @busmark_w_nika   That's a great example with Taplio! The "you saved $XY" framing is clever because it ties the value back to the user's

... model, then layer on AI interior design, AI interior d cor, and AI virtual staging to bring each home to life. No heavy CAD expertise. No long render studio queues. No trust me, it will feel bigger in real

... everyone, I'm currently building a startup called Leivoo, a social nightlife app designed to help people connect in reallife at events, clubs and social venues. The idea is simple: users can see where people are gathering in

... adapt to the individual, establish a baseline, and avoid overreacting to noisy signals. That reinforced one of our core beliefs: relative progress from your own baseline is more useful than generic scores. 3. Personalisation has to reflect reallife One of the most useful questions we got was whether brain-performance baselines should account for hormonal cycles. The answer is yes. If you want to understand focus, energy, and resilience properly, context matters. Personalisation cannot stop at a single static ... ... questions. They are central. We want Pinnacle to feel like a calm, intelligent coach, not another noisy app demanding attention. That means being thoughtful about privacy, clear about how sensing works, and careful about when the product should guide

... personality model over time. Outcome-driven matching We focus on long-term relationship outcomes, not swipe rates or short-term reply rates. Scenario compatibility (not checklist matching) Two people can look perfect on paper and still fall apart in reallife. We try to evaluate fit across

... everyone! I'm Chris, a solo-founder and parent who likes building small tools that make everyday life easier. My project is a micro-saas called Togethrly that helps parents plan theiry kids' birthday. The idea came from real

... chat with them daily and 21% chat a few times a week). 33% use AI for relationships or social interactions 31% find AI chats as satisfying as human ones 39% say they ve transferred skills from bots to reallife How do you perceive interaction with AI characters? Have you noticed any difference in the perception of these characters between you and your (younger) family members or friends? P.S. X is seeing a revenue boost thanks to the launch ... ... becomes the new norm that people are building emotional connection with ai characters, scary! Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @aleksandra_trueme  We've gotten so comfortable that it's hard for us to even be friends in

... spent almost 3 hours on a work call on Saturday. Since we're working online and remotely, it's hard to blur the line between what's work, what's "leisure" web browsing, and what's reallife. How do you balance your online work with your rest? Do you notice that if you don't get enough rest, your performance decreases? For example, I sometimes have trouble distinguishing that my work is work (because I perceive ... ... mind me working in "unusual" times or days). On the other hand, there are days I cannot come up with something creative and I am stuck in a stereotype chain/loop. What really worked for me are 2 things: