... know he was launching a venture studio. After hearing the idea, he said: If you build it, I ll invest. A DM can change everything. March I handed in my notice. We started building during weekends and evenings. We spoke to developers, agencies and consultants before creating a prototype. It worked. It wasn t yet delightful, but it worked. Because we had vibe-coded it, every change broke something else. We had to rebuild. A lot. April I speculatively pitched ... ... market: I speak Portuguese, Mariana is Portuguese and my wife is Brazilian. We ran a test in Portuguese. We recruited 100s of Brazilian users in three weeks, mainly thanks to Ting on WhatsApp. IYKYK . December Based on competitors

... search matches each transcript segment to clips you already have and inserts the best match. No stock libraries, no uploads. - Multilingual captions one-click translation into multiple languages with per-track SRT/VTT export. - Edit by speaker diarization labels who spoke when; remove, tighten, or isolate a single speaker's segments like text. - Automatic multicam sync client-side audio cross-correlation aligns camera angles without timecode. Preview offsets with confidence scores, apply in one undoable step. Also in this release - Visual ...

... exact failure with our AI game hosts. A config change made new games default to a host variant that had no voice lines. Every session "worked" no errors, games started and finished, infra dashboards green. The host just never spoke. Nothing in our monitoring was designed to notice the absence of output, because absence isn't an error. It was caught by watching a real session, not by any alert. Two lessons that rearranged how I think about this: First ...

... audience outside PH too LinkedIn, X, communities DM people ahead of time so launch day isn't a cold ask 2 Launch day Go hard in the first 4 hours velocity decides everything Personally follow up with everyone you spoke to beforehand Reply to every single comment, fast 3 Post-launch Keep engaging and actually collect the feedback Add the PH badge to the landing page Follow up with everyone who commented My one open question: What ...

... Indie hackers! Been a very long time since we haven't spoke about, 1 year already I suppose? First of all, I want to thank you all for all the support you gave back then, it was sensational! The reason I stopped this product it was because AI was starting taking more ground that I expected and I was not having the necessary experience back then. Now I have it. I want to relaunch CoLaunchly, but not in his initial ...

... back 10 hours every week. Comment from Tibo Wiels(@tibo_wiels): You giving away our secret sauce? Comment from Theo Depraetere(@theo_depraetere): This is gonna be gold! Comment from Chloe Samaha(@chloesamaha): In just two weeks, Teagan spoke with multiple Product Hunt #1 makers, learned their playbook, and helped us execute flawlessly. Within four hours of launch, we had taken the lead and shifted our goal from Product of the Day to Product of the Week ...

... there's no shared webhooks folder they both sit under. so the glob fix doesn't even apply to the three i have today, they were never colocated in the first place. which proves your enumeration vs property point before i even get to a fourth provider. the property i actually care about isn't "is this file in the webhooks directory," it's "does this handler get called by an external party with money attached to the payload ... ... nothing, the reviewer's normal experience becomes an empty screen, and empty screens train people to expect empty. Whether the one that is not empty gets read properly on day forty is an open question. It still beats the alternative

... about what happens after launch day. Do you keep posting updates in your product's forum even months later, or is the attention mostly gone once the initial wave settles? Curious what's actually worked for you long-term vs. what just felt like effort without payoff. Comment from Bharat(@bharatlearner): @busmark_w_nika   Yeah, I am. I'm posting my product on Reddit, X, and Product Hunt. I think that's enough for now. What do you think ... ... another rejection sitting on a young account, and I have no way of knowing whether those accumulate. So the test costs me something and the answer is worth less than the risk. One thing has changed since we spoke

... think AdSense rejection emails are one of the least helpful feedback in the tech field. They simply state, "Insufficient content." "Policy violation." They don't even specify the exact page, section, or rule. When I spoke with bloggers who had this experience, I found the pattern was almost always the same. They guessed the reason, finished writing the post, waited two weeks, and still got rejected again. Some people even gave up after trying three or four times. Has anyone ...

... require reviews, agencies are expensive. Wants a website + ads that bring bookings. Willing to pay $100 300/month. We conducted research related to this problem " Managing Type 1 Diabetes Without AI Assistance. " We found 23 people from different countries and spoke with each of them. They all confirmed that they experience this problem and that it is acute for them. We will try to prepare a document with all the details in the near future. Guys, we are also currently ...

... more users we spoke to, the more we realized something important: The biggest challenge isn t writing code anymore. AI already helps with that. The real challenge is understanding whether that code is healthy. That s why the blood test analogy makes so much sense to us. A blood test gives you visibility into hidden risks before they become serious. Code quality should work the same way. More thoughts on this soon Comment from Daniel Henry(@daniel_henry4): I like ...

... stickier. And once you hit a real JS sensor (Akamai _abck, Kasada), stop no server-side trick beats an L3 block. Comment from steve oyugi(@steve_oyugi): I did not know I could find a thread that spoke so deeply to me. Building products that rely on Social Platforms are a true pain. Constantly evolving and undocumented changes ...

... rare. It was also my first launch on Product Hunt , I got verified here , and got to experience the entire process end-to-end for the first time. More than anything, it was the conversations that stood out. We spoke to some genuinely incredible builders from across the world, and got to see how much thought people put into real production systems. That s what we ll remember most from today. Grateful for everyone who showed up in their ...

... same story kept coming up: solid product, decent creative, budget still disappearing with little to show for it. For a long time the easy explanation was "their ads just aren't good enough." But the more founders we spoke to, the less that held up. The real culprit was something quieter. Meta's algorithm needs a certain amount of conversion data to optimize properly. A business spending 500/month rarely gets there, so its campaigns stay stuck in the learning phase ...

... gives creators and teams more time to focus on strategy, storytelling, audience interaction, and brand growth. The Biggest Lesson From Building This One thing I learned during development is how common these workflow problems really are. Almost everyone I spoke with had similar frustrations: Missing scheduled posts Managing too many tools Inconsistent branding Difficulty tracking analytics Spending hours on repetitive tasks This confirmed that the problem wasn t just personal it was something many businesses and creators struggle with daily ...

... mohamed_afrideen): This resonates, Alfredo. Same path here, marketing background, now building with AI instead of only marketing other people's stuff. AllAi1 especially. I run a small account around exactly that, which AI tools actually earn their place vs the hype, and the signal-to-noise problem keeps getting worse, not better. Curious how you're deciding what makes the cut, your own testing or community input? And "no grand manifesto, just building" is the right energy. Following along ... ... wasn't able to scale it into something big. Now I'm exploring the solo founder path and focusing on building lean, sustainable products. Comment from Mustafa Arian(@thenameisarian): solo founder over here too. building TAM Network. an alternative

... everyone 4 years ago I barely spoke English. A few days ago I shipped my first SaaS. Proud and nervous at the same time. I'm Galyna. SEO has been my work for years, first as a hobby then as freelance. Because of the war in Ukraine I had to move to another country, learn English from scratch, and figure out what's next. Around the same time AI happened, and building something of my own felt possible ...

... Shivani Shimpi(@klashkil): let's go, love this for you Bengeekly, completely agree with what Thami and Casey said, hunters really help sharpen the positioning and help with the launch, the pressure test and reality check is real. I spoke with a few hunters and they did give real good feedback on the product, so before i could go live with my PH and general launch it's been helpful. Comment from Bengeekly(@bengeekly): @caseygaskins I lost years ...

... started focusing on what I could do with what I had. No perfect conditions. No connections. No shortcuts. Just faith and action. Over the years, everything transformed. I earned a PhD in Budapest, published scientific papers, spoke at international conferences and then made a radical decision to start over. After 30, with a family and financial pressure, I learned programming from scratch. Step by step, I became a software engineer. And now I built and launched my own product ...

... universities about running Contral as a pilot in their CS programs. The idea of students learning to code inside an actual IDE instead of switching between a tutorial and an editor resonated hard with the professors we spoke to. Nothing signed yet but the conversations are real and moving. Bug reports have been humbling. Our early users don't hold back and thats exactly what we needed. We've shipped fixes almost daily since launch based on real user feedback ... ... from Leon Jakob Kastelic(@kastelicjakob): Really interesting that Defense Mode became the breakout future... Says a lot about how people actually want to learn. Have you seen any patterns in when developers engage with it? (like after writing code vs

... useful, even better. -> https://memoair.space Comment from Olga Kargopolova(@olga_kargopolova): The 'most useful systems weren't the smartest ones, they were the ones that remembered' is such a good insight. im always reminding my ai what we spoke about Comment from Kabir Salunkhe(@kabirsalunkhe): This is interesting. Feels like memory is less of a feature and more of a UX expectation now. If users have to keep reminding the system, it breaks the illusion pretty fast. Curious ... ... giving developers the "edit" option they need to keep things on track. Have you run into this context reset problem yourself? Comment from Kabir Salunkhe(@kabirsalunkhe): @sourav_das29  That makes sense feels like it s less about control vs

... tharun_kakirala  good insight. Can confirm 1 and 2. What changed for me is I now build solutions to personal problems. Solving a problem for yourself and being your own customer gives you a significant edge over your competitors ...

... floor plans or old Blueprints. Sometimes they re clean. Sometimes they re just photos of paper. From there, the typical path looks like this. Redraw. Model. Export. Render. Send to Virtual Staging. Wait. Revise. Repeat. Designers we spoke to were doing world-class work. But they were doing it on top of brittle infrastructure. Foursite , inside VirtualSpaces , is our attempt to fix that plumbing. At its core, it s an AI interior design and AI Visualization rail. You drop ... ... skip the file gymnastics. For us as techies, the aha moment was simple. The magic isn t in one render. It s in how fast you can explore ten options. Foursite lets a designer see what warm minimal vs

... point in a language where you re totally functional, but you feel like your progress just stops? I noticed that many expats stall once they feel comfortable using 1000-2000 words, decent grammar, and pronunciation. People who hardly spoke better after 10 years in a foreign country with a new language than they did after year one. My theory is that once you master the grammar, pronunciation (and the feel) of the language, the only way forward is to increase ...

... project management tool for remote design teams. Here's exactly how we work." Feature lists Problem-solution paragraphs Vague benefits Specific outcomes Lesson #2: AI Loves Comparisons Even If You Lose This one hurt. I avoided mentioning competitors. Why give them free airtime? Wrong move. Every AI answer about your category includes comparisons. Always. If you don't provide the comparison, AI finds someone who does and that someone might be your competitor