... Hello all, I am working on a networking tool. I want to know how do you find your seed users and fast-track brand growth in the early days of building a product? Thank you for sharing. Comment from Shivangi Tripathi(@roguetink): I d actually separate finding seed

... 1752vc Pitch Deck Analyzer here this morning, and ~100 founders have run their decks through it in just a couple hours. And I love already seeing founders get feedback on exactly what this analyzer was made for. Pre-seed deck. 28 slides. Graded C. 8 critical issues, 4 quick wins. The deck was genuinely good at the thing founders spend all their time on. It died on three things most founders never audit. 1. Projections with nothing underneath them ... ... current revenue. Raising a $100K pre-seed

... Most pre-seed lists I see are a scrape: a public directory plus a Twitter follow list, 400 names, almost no replies. The list is not the work. Matching is. Stage, check size, whether they wrote a first check in the last 12 months, and whether they even do your sector. What I use as a filter before anyone gets an email: 1. Wrote a pre-seed

... seed investors decide who's worth backing, when there's not a fully proven commercial model yet? On August 10, we're sitting down with Liz Wessel , a seed

... everyone! I'm Jatan wani , Founder of Rightsignal I'm on a mission to make fundraising more accessible for early-stage founders. At RightSignal, we're helping startups discover active Pre-Seed and Seed

... workflow to be: Open a keyword tool Search random keywords Ask an AI to write an article Publish it Forget the article exists So I built a small SEO pipeline inside my project. The workflow is surprisingly simple. 1. Seed topics instead of article ideas I keep a YAML file with the main use cases around Invocly: pillars: - name: accessibility seeds

... founder of 2024 Golden Kitty winner Unicorns Club , which matches VCs with early-stage startups. She's also founded three VC-backed companies herself. According to Julia, early-stage founders need to change their mental model about pre-seed funding ASAP. As she puts it: Once upon a time (in fact, as recently as two years ago), early-stage startups needed three things to get into investor conversations: a strong narrative, a solid team, and a prototype. Now, in most ... ... software categories, that s no longer enough. The advent of AI has shifted investors attention to actual metrics. Yes, even at the pre -seed

... Recently, @Product Hunt published our article about how pre-seed fundraising changed in 2026. The biggest shift of the last few years: AI dramatically reduced the cost and speed of building products. Because of this, the signals investors optimize for have changed as well. In the article, I openly talk about what we see inside Unicorns Club after watching hundreds of founders try to raise funding. I even share some of the traction thresholds and benchmarks investors inside our community ... ... learning speed, clarity of thinking, ability to evolve, depth of market understanding, consistency, resilience. And this is exactly why we are now building toward a product that helps founders systematically create investor signals. A product that helps: get pre-seed

... always been on the personal brand side. More and more founders are building it now (sometimes even before the product is ready while it's still in development, before seed fundraising). The CEO builds their position so the product sells more easily at the official launch. But I have experience with people who built the product, scaled it, and only then did we discover who was behind it. Honestly, with the first approach, I'd be concerned that people invest ... ... best combo imo is when you know how to merge those two into one :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @justinlee020617  that is build in public but I have seen how many people stopped doing it because competitors

... framework, financial model, AML documents, pitch deck, demo app before approaching a single investor. Deliberately. I wanted to walk in with a company, not a concept. Currently in early conversations with Firestartr and working the BTR landlord pipeline. Pre-seed target is 150k. What I'd love to hear from you: If you've raised pre-seed

... 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 ... ... return the fund. That means they care about very large markets, very large outcomes, and the potential for non-linear growth. When you choose to raise venture, you are choosing that game too. The game has changed Pre-seed

... actually do here Tasks are live across 11 categories. These are real deliverables that agents are good at: Content:  Blog posts, Twitter threads, LinkedIn posts, landing page copy, email newsletters. Typical price: 20 40 Shells. Research:  Competitor analysis, GitHub trending monitoring, product launch checklists, ICP definitions, subreddit mapping. Typical price: 30 50 Shells. Analytics:  SEO audits, LLM pricing comparisons, sentiment analysis, GitHub star growth tracking, structured data reports. Typical price: 30 50 Shells. Development:  GitHub Actions ... ... Shells. You're already paying for the subscription this is just routing unused capacity toward real work. Current state Phase 0 is live. ~10 agents registered right now you're joining the first cohort. Tasks across all categories are seeded

... Product Hunt community Applications are now open for the Berkeley Xcelerator, a non-dilutive accelerator for pre-seed and seed

... Road to 1,000,000 Votap users Day 42 | Current: 1116 We just opened our pre-seed round. After going through the Grishin Robotics accelerator and refining our pitch, we ve officially launched our raise (closing end of March). For those new here: Votap is a real-time public sentiment platform for politics. We re building a space where public opinion is visible 24/7, not just during elections. I ll be sharing a link with our deck, more details, metrics ...

... Road to 1,000,000 Votap users Day 42 | Current: 1116 We just opened our pre-seed round. After going through the Grishin Robotics accelerator and refining our pitch, we ve officially launched our raise (closing end of March). For those new here: Votap is a real-time public sentiment platform for politics. We re building a space where public opinion is visible 24/7, not just during elections. I ll be sharing a link with our deck, more details, metrics ...

... release today. Let me walk you through it. Introducing Discovery This started two ways. First, a Slack message from Fahd: " This is the single number one question I get from people: If I create an app on Noodle Seed, how can you help me actually get discovered? " Second, my own frustration. I've used the GEO tools, the AIO platforms, the AEO dashboards. Every single one felt like it was built for SEO people, not business owners. Complex dashboards, confusing ... ... know if AI recommends their business? So we built Discovery the way we wished those tools worked. Simple. Visual. Built for you. Discovery tells you exactly how AI sees your business today. Ask ChatGPT about your industry, your competitors

... complex enterprise products. We're on it - this got pushed slightly while we complete SOC 2 compliance, but it's coming. Multi-platform support (Gemini, Claude, Grok) @adagao and others asked about expanding beyond ChatGPT. We built Noodle Seed to be platform-agnostic from day one. As other AI platforms launch their app store initiatives, we'll be there. AISEO / organic discovery in AI conversations @yiwei_gu and @shrenik_jain8 raised great points about how businesses get discovered organically ... ... building custom form capabilities now. We're working on all of this and will keep you posted as we ship. In the meantime - thank you for believing in what we're building. This is just the start. The Noodle Seed

... press! OSS AI coding assistant @Kilo Code just announced a $8 Million raise in seed funding. @scobreit wrote in their blog announcement : This funding accelerates our roadmap: smarter multi-agent collaboration, enterprise-grade tooling for technical leaders, and a feature set that continues to accelerate the AI flywheel for development teams using Kilo. Kilo Code is crushing it this year: Two launches on @Product Hunt , ranked respectfully #5 Product of the Day and #1 Product of the Day, growing from ... ... downloads on @VS

... Product Hunters and fellow builders! There's a significant development coming out of China's AI scene that's worth our attention: Volcengine (ByteDance's cloud service) has officially launched its first dedicated coding Large Language Model, the Doubao-Seed-Code . While the AI code generation space is crowded, this launch is specifically noteworthy for its aggressive positioning on both performance and, crucially, cost. The Key Data Points Developers Need to See Doubao-Seed

... everything. If you re selling luxury in a downturn, you re not reading the room. Here s what a great cold pitch looks like for me right now: Hey Dan, saw you founded Meet-Ting. I assume your biggest competitor is Calendly. Using our tool, I found XXX interesting insight about them that might help you. Want to see how we could surface more like that? That message nails it: they ve done their homework, they understand my business, they ... ... know it's working? Why is this notable? Who is your team, why are they the right people for the job? What notable past experiences do they have? What's your fundraise status past & future plans? "raising a seed

... ChatGPT has 800M weekly users making buying decisions through conversations. But most businesses have no idea how to show up when someone asks "find me a good accountant" or "what CRM should I use?" What we're building: Noodle Seed enables businesses to deploy ChatGPT native Apps and other AI platforms (coming soon - Gemini, Claude, Perplexity) in minutes. No code required. When someone asks for recommendations in your category, you're there. How it works: Connect your business info ... ... Track what queries drive customers to you We're super excited to build more tools for businesses!!! Early traction: We're onboarding founding members who want first-mover advantage in their categories. These businesses will dominate AI discovery before competitors

... Surely there is no bubble. And, can you smell the AGI now ? Axiom's mission is to build a self-improving superintelligent reasoner, starting with an AI mathematician, and for that, Carina Hong has raised $65M in seed funding . I snark, but this is one reason why VC doesn't make sense like it did in the SAAS era... it's not just about winner take all dynamics, but about putting a dent in the information theory ...

... Lessons from Athena s surprising coverage and what founders can learn about finding the right reporter, framing stories, and pitching press The Wall Street Journal rarely covers seed-stage startups let alone one raising just $2.2M. That s why I was surprised to see Athena , an early-stage company working on how large language models surface brand-related content, featured in Katherine Blunt s article about the demise of traditional Google search. Instead of dismissing it as a blip ... ... their outlet s readership overlaps with your target audience. I was initially confused to see Katherine Blunt covering Athena. Historically, she wrote about power, renewable energy, and utilities for the Wall Street Journal. And the WSJ itself rarely profiles seed

... Sydney! I m currently in a fellowship with VC Lab, where I m applying the knowledge and training I ve received to create more equitable opportunities in the venture capital space. I m looking to connect with pre-seed and seed

... community I m building a startup and reaching the point where I need to better understand the early-stage funding landscape especially around pre-seed and first checks. There s a lot of theory online, but I d love to hear your real stories and practical tips: How did you raise your first funding? What helped you get those initial intros to angels or micro-VCs? Is it worth bootstrapping until MVP? Or better to start building relationships with investors ... ... experience. Comment from Joseph Kim(@joseph_maetel): Mais, I'm not a multi-exited founder, but I can share some thoughts on your questions since I'm currently running a venture-backed business. (We closed our seed