... modal in the product one at a time and reading what it promised. And before launch I said the failure I expected from 111 one click apps wasn't a crash, it was an app returning something plausible and slightly wrong that nobody would bother to report. Same pattern in all three. A crash gets reported because it interrupts someone. A wrong number interrupts nobody, so it sits there and the inbox stays clean, and a clean inbox reads like ... ... line check I never wrote because it felt too obvious to be wrong. The third has no second number, which is why it's the one that still bothers me. An app returning a plausible image or a slightly

... task before accessing a blocked app Journal about why you're reaching for your phone Use physical challenges like push-ups as an interruption Track your behaviour and progress The idea is simple: Make the impulsive action slightly harder. Make the intentional action slightly

... easy to fall into the habit of constantly changing things on your site just because you looked at a competitor or got bored of your own UI. I used to jump straight into the code every time a flow felt slightly

... Three numbers from it get quoted. Users who saw an AI summary clicked a traditional result in 8% of visits; users who didn't, 15%. Users ended their browsing session 26% of the time with an AI summary present versus 16% without. And the one that should matter most to anyone buying GEO: users clicked a link inside the AI summary itself in 1% of visits. One per cent. That is the click value of the thing the entire optimisation ... ... more often. Just 8% of one- or two-word searches produced one. For searches of ten words or more, 53%. For searches starting with a question word - who, what, when, why - 60%. Sit with that next to the 8%-versus

... Apple's own support pages. Apple In-App Purchase: 26%, or 15% if you're in the Small Business Program, the Mini Apps or Video Partner Programs, or on an auto-renewable subscription after the subscriber's first year. Alternative payment processing inside your app: 20%, or 10% for those same groups. Out-of-app offers with an actionable link: a 15% store services commission, or 10% for those groups, on anything bought within 7 days of the tap. Apps ... ... distributed outside the App Store entirely - an alternative

... Ernesto, co-founder of Scalari. I ve spent more than 14 years building software, leading engineering teams, working with startups, and helping companies turn technology into actual business results. And somewhere along the way I noticed something slightly absurd: companies have never had more data and somehow it s still surprisingly hard to answer simple business questions. How much are we actually growing? Which customers are really profitable? Why did conversions drop? What should we be worried about next month ... ... business intelligence is another prettier chart. It s software that helps people make better decisions. We re still early. We re building, testing assumptions, talking to users, breaking things, rebuilding them, and discovering that apparently connecting company data is slightly

... After being on Product Hunt for almost 4 years, I ve realised one thing. The vast majority of people launch their product once, and that s it. It gives me a slight feeling that the product might stop existing a few months later. On the other hand, makers who repeatedly launch major updates give me the impression that they re serious about their product s direction. I d probably feel much more comfortable paying for a lifetime deal from them ... ... usage data to point to instead of just intent. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @farrukh_ahmed8877  To be honest, each other's launch seemed to me less successfulessful, but I think it was because of very big competitors

... makes a companion app look healthy on a retention dashboard is the loop that regulators now call manipulation. That's the trap. If you optimize an emotional product for time-in-app, you will build something that makes people slightly worse and your metrics slightly

... path taken to it. So, concretely: measure tokens-to-passing-test, report the median and the p90, and treat the gap between them as the real quality signal. A tool with a tight distribution and a slightly worse median beats one with a great median and a fat tail every time on real work. Stephanie's time-to-merge is the same instinct measured in hours instead of tokens, with the advantage that it is already sitting in your ...

... without losing context. Now building Arteza on the same idea for image, video, voice and music. Most of what I've learned this year isn't the fun part. It's context handoff between providers who all format history slightly differently. It's pricing something whose underlying cost moves every few weeks. It's support tickets from people who don't believe the model actually switched, because the tone didn't change enough for them to notice. Two things ... ... that the paid version should feel meaningfully better, not just technically different under the hood. How much of that "tone didn't change enough" problem did you solve by actually engineering the cheaper model's output to sound different, versus

... brought us users, feedback, and sometimes very direct criticism. We have now started experimenting with Reddit ads, although the early click-through rate looks unusual enough that we are not fully sure we trust the reporting yet. So, a slightly specific request: if you happen to see one of our ads on Reddit, please let me know which subreddit it appeared in. A screenshot would be even more useful. We will keep sharing the numbers as we go, including what ... ... where the glory is Comment from Dawid Baranowski(@dawid_baranowski): @mazin_assaf  Mazin da OG Comment from Dawid Baranowski(@dawid_baranowski): @misti__hassig  it's a bit of a tricky question to answer as they serve slightly

... sentence, because there is no final version that removes it. I've started separating launch issues into two groups: Things that would genuinely damage trust or stop someone from using the product. Things that would simply make the product slightly better . Security problems, broken payments, lost data, major onboarding failures, or core features that do not work are real blockers. A nicer animation, another integration, slightly

... does. Strongest tool in the set, narrowest domain, and the temptation is to reach for it somewhere it has to be relaxed, at which point it is a gate again with worse ergonomics. On same visibility I would push slightly, because parity is the wrong target and undersells what the filtering is doing. A human's visibility is sequential, attention bounded and forgotten. They look at one thing, then another, and the card number is gone from their head ... ... agent didn't just act, it acted with someone's credentials, someone's access, someone's blast radius. and when it goes wrong, the audit trail usually can't tell you what the agent was actually authorised to do versus

... slightly less excited> Hi, I'm Keith and I launch fun things on Fridays I can't recall the original thread but I saw the phrase "eternal september" in a slightly

... would be: A stable core product A clear landing page and positioning Real users who have used the product before launch Basic analytics to measure what happens after launch A strong reason for people to choose this product over alternatives A launch plan for what happens after Product Hunt You don t necessarily need a huge user base or a fully mature product. But you should have enough evidence that people actually care about the problem you re solving ... ... launch morning. The people who show up for you are people you actually talked to first. That part can't be rushed, and I wish I'd started sooner. So I'm shipping the imperfect thing. On purpose. Slightly

... compliance is different. It focuses on whether a system meets legal, regulatory, or policy requirements. The question is less "is this safe?" and more "are we meeting the rules we're expected to follow?" AI governance sits in a slightly different place. It's about ownership, visibility, and control. Who can approve an AI workflow? What records exist? Who is responsible when decisions are made? How can a team understand what happened later if something goes wrong? A support agent ...

... ways: The Manual Grind: Spending 10+ hours dragging keyframes in Premiere Pro or After Effects when I should be focusing on the actual product. The AI Route: Burning through incredibly expensive AI video tokens, only to get an unpredictable, slightly creepy result that looks like typical "AI slop." I got so tired of this cycle that I decided to build a third option for founders like us. It s called Fieldora. The concept is dead simple: Strictly zero AI, purely ...

... With all the recent data leaks and state surveillance laws, more people seem to prefer 100% local, on-device compute over cloud-based LLM architectures even if it means working with slightly smaller models. As users or makers, are you consciously choosing on-device alternatives

... open, I started to hesitate. My active vocabulary felt rusty, and I realized I was losing my writing confidence. It brought me to a harsh truth: AI is making us fluent in copy-paste, not in language. The "Pilot" vs. the "Mentor" Problem The real issue with traditional AI tools is that they write instead of you. They take the controls, replace your voice entirely, and fly the plane. Your brain gets zero mental engagement, and you learn absolutely nothing ... ... native speakers: you can write in one language (like English) and receive the grammatical explanations in your native tongue (like French) to accelerate real learning. I m really curious to get your take on this: Have you noticed a slight

... sets cannibalizing each other. 7. Search term mining and negative keyword lists. Finds the negatives I should have added last month. 8. Landing page and tracking QA. Checks every URL and pixel fire in the account. 9. Competitor ad monitoring. Scrapes Meta Ad Library, sends me a weekly digest. 10. Anomaly detection and alerting. Spend spikes, CTR drops, conversion dips emails me same day. Most of these took under an hour to build. Some took 20 minutes. The failure mode ... ... emailing CSVs around, this is the move. How this connects to Rankfender We have been building these same workflows into Rankfender. Not as standalone scripts. As native features. RAISA does the anomaly detection and alerting. Spend spikes, citation drops, competitor

... makes me think "cool tech, not sure who needs it." A clear problem with a rough demo still gets my attention, because I can fill in the rest myself. Comment from Ilya Ofliian(@ilyaofliian): This really resonates from a slightly odd angle, because I audit other people's launches for a living, so "what problem does this actually solve" is the lens I can't turn off either. To your question: I look for the problem first, every time ... ... that's a very important distinction. That could also explain why you're attracting more men, who are looking for a real solution vs

... live on PH Aug 22, so this thread's been good practice at saying it in one paragraph.) Comment from Demetrio Koro(@aktivist): siOsi upload one selfie and it reads your 12-season color type, undertone, gold vs silver, and which hair colors suit you, then grades the actual makeup in the photo (flash cast, oxidation, coverage), which most tools skip. Free, no signup. Built it because every beauty sub has a queue of "what season am I" posts waiting ... ... verified AI disclosure. others will not. over time the receipts with agent transparency outperform on credibility because the alternative

... days ago, @busmark_w_nika Nika asked a great question here: has there been a launch that inspired you to take your own launch to the next level? It got me thinking about something slightly different. Not just specific launches on Product Hunt, but the founders themselves. Is there a specific entrepreneur, indie hacker, or startup founder who genuinely made you believe you could build something of your own? For me, I was always drawn to what Tibo ... ... ordinary people who were just one or two steps ahead of me. Someone launching their first product, getting their first paying customer, sharing their first $100 online. Billion-dollar founders make entrepreneurship look possible in theory. People who are slightly

... both content and   product work.   2. Google Search Console I basically live in it. For anything SEO, it's the only honest source of truth   about what's actually happening vs. what I assume is happening.   3. Ahrefs keyword and competitor

... After months of growth in @ViralSort , MRR now looks stable and has started slightly declining. Have you faced this stage before? What did you do to restart growth? Improve retention? Launch new features? Increase marketing? Change pricing? Focus more on sales? Would love to learn from founders who went through this phase. Comment from Alper Tayfur(@alpertayfurr): I d first separate acquisition slowdown from retention/churn before changing pricing or adding features. If existing users are staying but fewer new ones ...