... everyone, I'm Pritam. I've been building Huddle, an AI that lives inside your group chats on Slack and Discord and stays quiet until someone tags it in. The idea came from watching my own group chats spiral into arguments about facts that could just be looked up, or plans that kept going in circles because nobody wanted to be the one to decide. Huddle jumps in only when called, settles the question or the debate, then goes quiet ...

... reach a certain point. The idea is to get eyes on your screentime, only when you reach a chosen threshold, and every 30 minutes afterward as well. Hopefully, this continued visibility will help you get out of lonely addiction spirals where all that exists is you and the phone. We have other ideas as well, but for now, trying to keep it simple for the MVP. Please let me know if you have any ideas or would like to help ...

... itself. Now try it on a product whose value is subjective. I build Murror, an AI companion for understanding your own emotions. What's the outcome I'd charge for? A journal entry written? People write when they're spiraling and skip when they're fine, so charging per entry would mean my incentives are best served by my users being at their worst. An "insight delivered"? There's no click that proves a reflection landed. Sometimes the most valuable ...

... agent's output because you don't trust the first draft. Do the same for your own state. A five-minute end-of-day check, what actually happened, what I made up, what I'll do tomorrow, catches the spiral before it compounds, the same way a code review catches the subtle bug before it's in prod. The tools that used to gate building are gone, which is a real gift. But it means the constraint that's left ... ... failure, so I'd avoid it and the whole thing collapsed. Making each day independent removed that. The only recovery rule I keep: never judge two days' numbers at once to catch up that's just the mid-build spiral

... everyone who tested the game, reported issues, and shared feedback. That feedback is now guiding the next stage of development. For anyone new to the project, Veyrasol is a cross-platform MMO strategy game set in the Veyra Spiral. Players build colonies, command fleets, form alliances, and compete across ~120-day seasons that end with a battle for the Galactic Beacon. Current status: - The Steam Coming Soon page is live and wishlisting is open. - The iOS build has been prepared ...

... inside your app if they can only feel understood while they're talking to your model you haven't solved loneliness. You've made it more comfortable to stay lonely. You've built a very sophisticated waiting room. The alternative is to design for the exit. Concretely, that means three things. Point users back at real people, not deeper into the app. The most valuable thing an emotional AI can do isn't be a better listener than your friends ... ... only signals we actually trust are downstream of usage, not usage itself: an explicit "did you end up having that conversation?" follow-up, and people coming back specifically to report an outcome rather than to start a fresh spiral

... know if this is just how day one always goes or if he made it harder on himself than it needed to be. For people who've actually done this, is the refreshing and spiraling pretty universal, or is there something you did differently that kept you sane? And for anyone else who hasn't launched yet either, does hearing this make you more nervous about your own launch day, or does knowing it happens to almost everyone take some ... ... doing for mine: close the ranking tab. keep the comments tab open. answer everything. haven't done my ph day yet, mine's coming up, but i've been through the app store review version of this and the spiral

... week up. Every growth chart pointed right and up. Then I read what our most active users were actually writing. One user was journaling 6 times a day. Not because they were building a healthy reflection habit they were spiraling. Writing the same anxious thought over and over, looking for the AI to say something that would make it stop. Our product was doing exactly what it was designed to do: reflecting their emotions back to them. But reflection without ... ... Comment from Omri Ben-Shoham(@omri_ben_shoham1): the hard part here isn't deciding to add the cooldown, it's telling apart the two people hitting the same usage number. someone journaling 6 times a day could be spiraling

... myself: I'm not allowed to call the product dead or say "it failed" until I've actually tested every single item on that list. Having a roadmap of experiments keeps you in "execution mode" instead of letting you spiral into "this is never going to work" mode after plan A fails ...

... vipasna retreats you would find a lot !!! Comment from Gia Khan(@gia_khan): Sundays, no screen, minimal internet to message someone if needed. Just exsisting! Comment from Gia Khan(@gia_khan): @busmark_w_nika  It's a spiral, honestly. You wish you could just be but then this needs your attention and that should be done. I now have time for this, lets do it... and it never ends :P Comment from Gia Khan(@gia_khan): @julia_shtogren ...

... hunters, I'm Golvis, founder of Geekspeaker, Inc., creators of Skimify News. Like a lot of you, I got tired of news being either a doomscroll spiral or a chore I'd keep avoiding. So I built the app I actually wanted: news that's fast, swipeable, and fun. What Skimify does: Bite-size, swipeable news cards (TikTok-style, but for staying informed) News-literacy games Streaks, XP, and levels so the habit actually sticks Earn non-cash points ...

... Product Hunt community! I'm the founder of Veyrasol a real-time, browser-based multiplayer space strategy game set in the Veyra Spiral galaxy. The pitch is simple: deep 4X-style strategy, zero downloads. Just open a tab and start commanding your empire. Here's what makes it different: Fully browser-based works on any device, no install needed - Three factions: Vanguard (offense), Aegis (defense), Concord (diplomacy) - Build colonies, deploy fleets, forge alliances - Real-time multiplayer fleets travel while ...

... advantage as a solo builder. So I challenged myself. If I could brief a team of developers, I could brief an AI. And I was right. What also changed: Around the same time, I was deep in a planning spiral with ChatGPT and it said something that stopped me mid-scroll: "Your risk is not execution. Your risk is over-planning without shipping." That hit personally. Because it wasn't a generic AI response. It was describing me, exactly ...

... start hand-verifying everything, which is the exact thing the agent was supposed to save you from. Comment from Alexander Bickov(@bickov): @hosseinyazdi  "Silent time waste" nails it. Sub-agent drift at least announces itself, you watch it spiral. The wrong-element one has no error signal. It does the job confidently wrong and you only find out when you go to use it. No alarm, so the cost just hides in your day. That ...

... guess which element on a busy screen I actually meant, and it edits the wrong one. Then I'm re-prompting, which is its own iteration tax. Curious how much of your rework is this specific thing versus raw model quality. And what's your fix, crop hard, or describe the element in text? Comment from Mira Gold(@mira_gold): @bickov  .... I have a high rate of the agent picking the right item(s). The thing that gets ... ... agent will loop (thinking in a loop) or some of the sub-agents spun from the main agent will spiral

... several custom GPTs and Claude Projects set up. Helps me a lot with competitor research and content writing. - Lovable - I don't have a lot of resources at hand, so if I want a new landing page design or I want to add a feature to our existing product, Lovable makes the execution easy. - SemRUSH / Ahrefs - I am a big content and SEO nerd. What are competitors

... minutes... The silence that follows hours pass, maybe a few visitors, but nobody's engaging. You start questioning every decision: "Is the product actually good? Did I pick the wrong day? Is my description unclear?" The second-guessing spiral Should I add feature X? Change the landing page? Post on more platforms? Or is the problem deeper? What I'm learning: The gap between "it works" and "people care" is where most indie builders quit. Not because the product ... ... credential to accept that the credential itself is the bottleneck. nobody disagrees that hiring is broken. everybody is loyal to the broken artifact because it is the only one they know how to make. the workaround: ship the alternative

... team, just me and a long list of tasks I kept rearranging instead of shipping. The problem wasn't motivation. It was that I had no one to think with. No one to tell me when I was spiralling on the wrong thing. No one to ask "did you actually talk to a user this week?" I tried accountability partners, Notion dashboards, daily standups with myself. Nothing stuck. So I built BuildMind an AI that acts like a co-founder ...

... celebrating them in standups for months. But the real wake-up was a user interview where someone said she opened the app every night but dreaded it she felt like she "had to" journal or her anxiety would spiral. That hit hard. We went back and cross-referenced our highest-engagement users with our NPS detractors and found a surprising overlap. The numbers had been telling us a story we wanted to hear. Once we started reading what people actually ... ... when you reframe it as the app doing its job, it actually feels more meaningful than any retention chart ever did. Comment from Mona Truong(@monatruong_murror): @mathew_chang  That distinction you're making active vs

... simincident.com . No programming background apart from casually learning C++ years ago at a basic level. The AI wave was a game changer for me because I always wanted to build my own product. Started by pasting ChatGPT code into VS Code, then discovered Claude in February this year and that was it. I was able to deliver a whole product. The problem? I never validated if anyone actually needed it. Zero traffic. People who signed up for beta never tried ... ... when I started building Luminens a 16-bit browser RAW photo editor running on WebGPU and libraw-wasm. Talk about a nightmare of structural complexity. I moved away from automated builders (I've tried all of them), switched to VS

... FOUR diseases in one night is genuinely impressive. Your doctor laughed but we felt that on a deep level that exact moment is why Juno exists. So glad we can be the thing between you and a 2am WebMD spiral. Your search history is safe with us Comment from Richard Cassell(@richard_cassell): Me every single time. Googled a headache once and had myself convinced it was a brain tumor by midnight. Turns out I was just dehydrated. Downloaded Juno ...

... isha_godboley): @asheer_ahmad  Honestly, that's the very reason we started Springfield Oracle. Misinformation goes viral faster than anyone had a chance to cross check it, and as the world develops, we cannot afford to have people spiralling into constant panic ...

... have ADHD. Give me a clear starting point and I'll execute all day. But figuring out what to prioritise, how to break a big goal into small ones, where to actually begin? That's where I'd spiral. I'd spend hours building the perfect plan. Then one unexpected change. A meeting moves, a deadline shifts, life happens. And the whole thing collapses. I thought that was a me problem, but it turns out, most of the people ...

... plenty of B2C SaaS companies that are successful but yes churn is always a problem in this area. The biggest challenge I see is how to tap into a large network and/or audience for my business without CAC spiraling. Comment from Andrei Tudor(@andreitudor14): I'd say mentors matter most when they've already failed at the specific thing you're trying to do, not just succeeded in the same industry. Comment from Aleksandar Blazhev(@byalexai): @stokestox ...

... scam. What I m engineering is pure risk-response logic. GrowHouse isn t a yield farm. It is a living Web2.5 ecosystem that breathes with the market, paces itself during a storm, and mathematically prevents the death spiral. Links https://www.420bt.com/ https://growhouse.420bt.com/dash... ...