... last advice before we go live? From your experience building or using tools: what usually makes a launch actually work and not just go live ? would love to hear real lessons Comment from Fatima Khan(@fatima_shehzad): @samirrashed  Thank you so much and just voted! This will be huge :) Comment from Samir

... featured and those that don't? Is it the product? The launch strategy? The audience? The timing? Or something else? Would love to hear from founders who have been through this before Comment from Jordan Travis(@jordan_travis2): @samirrashed Somehow it's sad, but always be positive , keep connecting with users and be motivated... you motivation is more then just to get feature in one go. My best wishes are with you :) Comment from Fabian Maume(@fabian_maume ... ... early-stage projects - April 12: a dedicated day for Pitch Paris - April 17: a Vercel Day with a curated lineup On those days, more products are featured, so it could be good to target them. Comment from Samir

... single potential user. I thought the product would speak for itself. It doesn't. People do. Talking first, building second is the lesson I'm taking into my launch next Thurday. Comment from Mia Taylor(@mia_taylor2): @samirrashed From my point of view , talking more about the product than the problem . Users connect with pain first. Comment from Emily Tang(@emailtang): One mistake I see a lot is polishing the launch page before pressure-testing the first workflow. A clean ... ... just about to launch, and even though we ve tried to prepare properly, it still feels like we re probably making half of these mistakes anyway. The hardest part for me is knowing what s useful preparation vs

... from Raj Nagulapalle(@rnagulapalle): the formatting loop honestly. you fix it, switch slides, come back, it broke again. feels like half the time building a deck is just fighting the tool instead of thinking about the content. Comment from Samir Rashed(@samirrashed

... instead of letting it die after week two like most tracking apps do. Gonna check out the beta, good luck with it. Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): @samuelcrotti  Real pain point, props for tackling it head on. Ran a small Shopify store for a bit and the ad spend vs

... based. We wanted an editor that stays on your hardware. Here's what you get: AI that runs locally: - Edit video by editing the transcript delete a sentence, the timeline cuts itself - Clone any voice from a 6-second sample - Remove filler words and silences in one click - Generate AI video from text using 9 models across 5 providers (Runway, Pika, Kling, Luma, Seedance, or run CogVideoX locally for free) - AI co-pilot: describe your goal in plain English ... ... clips - Audio effects chain (EQ, compressor, reverb, de-esser, limiter) - LUFS loudness normalization for YouTube/Spotify/podcasts - Beat detection with snap-to-beat - Batch export with 8 platform presets 30+ languages including 22 Indian languages via Sarvam AI unmatched by any competitor

... have to day gmail and Instagram, with elevenlabs filling that 5th spot for makibg my life just a little bit easier Comment from Frank A,(@fasathor): My current 5: ChatGPT product thinking, copy, debugging, and planning Cursor / VS Code building and shipping faster Supabase auth, database, storage, and backend workflows Cloudflare domains, DNS, and deployments Figma / Stitch landing page and product UI direction I m building multiple SaaS products under Astor Stack, so the tools that help me move from ... ... list AI as part of the list. 5 or 10 years ago, the list would have been totally different....but here's my 5: 1. AI (Claude, Gemini, Deepseek Grok) - yes can't live without them these days. 2. VSCode

... checking out Audex Trace. Trace is a small macOS app for Apple Music that shows what s actually playing not just the badge. It can show: The actual playback format: AAC / ALAC / Lossless / Hi-Res / Dolby The Mac output sample rate Whether playback and output are matched Playing Next quality estimates Skip warnings before a queued track may fail or skip A few people pointed out that concrete examples make the value much clearer, so I m improving the page ... ... around cases like: Lossless badge, but output sample

... turned my free Alibaba quote sanity check into a small paid review service for ecommerce sellers who already have a supplier quote, sample order, or freight quote in front of them. The problem I keep seeing: sellers get a quote with unit cost, MOQ, sample

... Hello everyone! Just wanted to introduce myself to the community! My name is Sam McNeil, and I m the owner of Listlens.io. This is my first attempt at a product launch, and I m excited to move this forward. I m open to feedback/tips/suggestions, so please stop by and say hello. I m curious to explore other products within this community. Thanks! Sam

... dead-end. Creators don't want a final master; they want modular components. To fix this, we avoided standard prompt-to-audio wrappers entirely. Instead, we built an agentic audio pipeline that spins up real, professional-grade, headless VST instruments (like Vital and Surge XT) directly inside ... ... production servers. When a user prompts Orchestria : Our LLM-powered agents interpret the natural language. They generate raw MIDI notes and sound synthesis parameters on the fly. They feed this data directly into the headless VSTs

... example, keywords like melancholy, dark, or emotional will automatically target slower tempos between 60 and 100 BPM, whereas terms like banger, hype, or club will push the tempo into faster ranges and request aggressive drum patterns. Routing High-End VST Instruments Orchestria allows you to route specific software instruments to different layers of your song. By default, the system uses Pianoteq 9 for primary melodies to ensure realistic, dynamic keyboard performances. You can request background synthesizers by naming them ... ... presets. You can also prompt for filter movements, such as asking for a filter sweep on the intro or an automation swell on the drop. Exporting Your Stems Once the system finishes rendering, you receive the full track along with sample

... Both @OpenAI and @Claude by Anthropic launched their frontier coding models last month, and @sama posted: we still get looksmaxxed on frontend a little but we IQmog hard now In other words: GPT-5.5 has the brains; Claude still has the taste. To verify this statement, the @Kilo Code team gave both models the same 5 UI design prompts - a SaaS landing page, an analytics dashboard, a settings page, a sign-up screen, and a pricing page ... ... details, refine spacing, and polish components. Claude Opus 4.7 shows better understanding of typography, color, spacing, and UI details. The per-token pricing suggests GPT-5.5 is the most expensive model ($30 per 1M output tokens vs

... community I'm Sam, solo founder building ShiftArmor. The problem: Manufacturers still run workforce ops across 4-5 disconnected tools paper schedules, Excel safety logs, separate time clocks, filing cabinets full of training records. When OSHA shows up for an audit, it's a fire drill. What I built: One platform that handles scheduling, time & attendance, incident tracking, OSHA compliance (auto-generates 300/301/300A forms), training matrix, risk scoring, and leave management. Built for plants and warehouses, not restaurants ... ... actual differentiator? Would love to hear from anyone who's sold into industrial/manufacturing, or any solo founders who've cracked the "zero to first customer" problem in a traditional industry. What worked? Comment from Vova Lavrik(@vova_lavrik): @samuel

... messages. So we wanted to make something simpler. Noa brings tasks, lists and calendar into one place , and a big part of it is being able to add things naturally, without forcing people into a rigid flow. Things like: Sam do the food shop Saturday at 10 Parents evening next Thursday at 6 Make a packing list for holiday It turns that into something structured and usable. Would any honest feedback from other makers. Still early, still improving, and always ... ... useful to hear what stands out or what feels missing. You can check it out on Product Hunt today, or have a look here: asknoa.app Comment from Sam

... Samsara is one of those companies that's easy to overlook because it operates in a less glamorous space, connecting physical operations like fleets, logistics, and industrial assets through IoT and AI. Not as headline-grabbing as NVDA or PLTR, but the fundamentals tell an interesting story. The stock is currently trading near its 52-week low, down significantly from a high of $48.41, despite beating Q4 earnings estimates and growing annual recurring revenue 30% year over year. Analysts have ...

... just published a deep breakdown of what "proactive CRM" actually means in practice vs the standard HubSpot reactive database model. The short version: Kobin's CRM runs 4 automated AI intelligence routines you don't configure or trigger manually: Risk Detection (multiple times/day): flags deals stuck 21+ days AND blocked tasks in the same client relationship simultaneously Revenue Intelligence (3 /week): surfaces deals closing this week, high-probability deals (>70%), and stale high-value deals ($5k+) before they ... ... inbox message. Ends with one specific highest-leverage action. All of this is included in our $49/month Founder plan (5 seats) that also includes team inbox, tasks, client portal, Google Drive vault, and calendar. Full post with real sample

... thought we knew We assumed enterprise customers wanted the same things as our small business users, just more of it. More security. More control. More features. We never talked to them. We read blog posts. We looked at competitor pricing pages. We guessed. Here's what we missed: Procurement cycles. Enterprise deals take 6-12 months. We had 30-day sales cycles. We weren't built for that. Security reviews. We needed SOC2. We didn't have it. Customers asked ... ... product is almost never the reason; it's procurement cycles, internal champions, and legal that kill it. The fastest fix is usually going back to a segment that can say yes in a week, not a quarter. Comment from Samir

... months ago, we ran an experiment with our own data. At Rankfender, we tracked 5 of our own competitors across 8 AI systems. We log their share of voice, citation velocity, content gaps, platform variance. Months of raw numbers sitting in a dashboard. I pulled 6 months of data and fed it into Claude. One question: "Based on this, who is most likely to overtake us in the next 6 months? Show your work. Use the data. Don't summarize ... ... Give me the numbers." The answer changed how I think about competition. The dataset: 5 competitors

... 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. Not a parody. A real competitor

... FMWC). I spent years structuring renewable energy transactions at rsted offshore wind, solar, battery storage building the models that actually closed those deals. The models from those transactions are now available as polished Excel templates on Eloquens (search "Samir Asadov CFA"): Project Finance Models (Base + Advanced Timeline + Dynamic Visualization) built for wind/solar/battery deals, with debt sculpting, DSCR targeting, and PPA vs

... According to @RevenueCat 's State of Subscription Apps 2026 report, " hard paywalls convert 5x better than freemium, but with significantly wider variance." Day 35 download-to-paid, freemium vs. hard paywall Does access method impact download-to-paid conversion within 35 days? Quoting the report: Median D35 conversion sits at 10.7% for hard paywalls. Freemium is 2.1%. That gap alone should make you pause. But the more revealing part is the distribution. Hard paywall top decile apps approach 40% conversion ... ... Simon Wallace(@dr_simon_wallace): So slipping back into my statistician origin, couple of things stand out from the quick look at the report which I worry may be misleading - or at the very least are in the shared sample

... Average monthly retainer for AI visibility audits 1,200 2,500 Average monthly retainer for ongoing AI visibility + content 2,500 5,000 First-mover advantage is real. The agencies offering this now are locking in clients before competitors even know the category exists. Service Model #1: The One-Time AI Visibility Audit What it is: A comprehensive audit showing where the client appears (or doesn't) across ChatGPT, Google SGE, Perplexity, and Gemini. Deliverables: 20 50 keywords analyzed Screenshots ... ... actual AI answers Competitor

... everyone While working with Claude Code in VS Code , I ran into a small but frustrating workflow issue. For months I ve been using Antigravity , which allows you to select code and press Ctrl + L to instantly send that snippet as context to the agent. Even better, you can repeat this multiple times in the same message, and the UI provides context chips that let you trace the referenced code easily. However, when I started using the Claude Code VS

... autonomous killing. Now the administration is threatening that if the founder of Anthropic doesn't change his mind by a certain date, they will come after him. Google, OpenAI, and Musk (Grok) have all signed the contract. Following Sam Altman's announcement over the past few hours , people have been speaking out massively about cancelling their OpenAI subscriptions and subscribing to Claude. What stance do you take toward big tech companies after this? Are you staying loyal to ChatGPT ... ... more curious what will happen with the founder of Anthropic. Maybe will be forced to leave the US. One never knows. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @spunchev  It seems that Dario is now profiting very well after Sam