... 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-stage investor and Partner at First Round Capital, to unpack exactly that. We'll discuss: What signals actually matter to a seed investor when there isn't much traction to point to yet The traits that separate fundable founders from everyone else at this stage

... build me X" prompt gives you a demo. Three staged prompts give you something that survives a real user. Development - architecture, data model, API surface Hardening - auth, rate limits, validation, failure paths. Explicitly after the happy path exists Verification- test cases and an explicit definition of passing Stage

... 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 funding opportunities, connect with the right investors, and spend less time searching and more time building. Beyond fundraising, we're building a global community where founders, investors, mentors, and operators can connect, collaborate, and grow together. Whether you're building your first MVP or preparing ...

... user recently shared detailed feedback about how Pocket Screen behaved with Stage Manager. That sent me down a much deeper technical path than I expected. The straightforward implementation did not work: once the source window moved to the Stage

... build HIPAA compliant AI for healthcare, and last month I deleted a feature I had just finished. It was a journey analytics module in our internal dashboard: stage by stage

... Over the past few months, we have been building Causo around two problems almost every early-stage founder runs into: Finding the right investors and reaching out to them properly Finding potential customers with a real reason to buy Our fundraising product helps founders discover relevant VC funds and partners, research them, and run personalized outreach. Our sales product finds companies that match a specific ICP, identifies why they may be a good fit right now, finds the right people ... ... Comment from Omri Ben-Shoham(@omri_ben_shoham1): The line about not fully trusting the Reddit ads reporting yet stood out. You already have a sales product that's good at telling whether a company/lead is a real fit versus

... growing product hits an inflection point where "good enough" visuals and quick-and-dirty copy start holding back growth. To build real authority and category leadership, a curated identity becomes important. I would say this could happen at different stages: Post-initial traction:  As soon as you hit PMF and have your first paying users (this is especially true if you want to stay bootstrapped). Post-funding:  After a Seed or Series A round when capital allocation expands ... ... that you need to see some traction before investing serious money in marketing. But in "marketing investment" I also include a professional who helps you clarify what your product is, why it's useful, what makes it different from competitors

... would I ever post on "D Stage" when I already have my regular social feeds?" If you've been building in public for a while, you already know the answer in your gut you're just not saying it out loud: social media wasn't built for founders. It was built for everyone, about everything, and you're just borrowing space in it. Quick context for anyone who hasn't seen it "D Stage

... empty room and get back a realistic, furnished version in minutes, while preserving the original walls, windows, doors, and layout. The idea came from a real problem in our other business ( Pixel Perfects Solutions ) doing manual virtual staging for real estate client s. It was slow and expensive at scale. So we built EstateAI to make it instant: pick a room type, pick an interior style ( Modern, Luxury, Scandinavian, Boho, Minimal, Industrial ), and get a staged

... team just went through choosing an analytics tool for a pre-launch product. We found out "which tool to use" is turn out to be "what stage are you". Here are four tools we seriously evaluated: PostHog Pros: generous free tier is awesome, session replay is a powerful feature. Cons: dashboards feel rough at small sample sizes, and the all-in-one breadth means some features are shallower than dedicated tools. Mixpanel Pros: best-in-class funnel and retention analysis ... ... main lens. Conclusion: if you only have dozens to hundreds of users, the tool choice matters less but the price matters more. We went with PostHog because replay and event in one place fits our stage

... talk about the EU AI Act sometimes makes it sound like every startup founder needs to become a lawyer overnight. From what I've seen, that's probably not the most useful way to think about it. For early-stage teams, the bigger takeaway is understanding the direction AI regulation is moving. There is increasing attention on risk, accountability, oversight, and the ability to explain how important decisions were made. As AI systems become more involved in customer interactions, business ... ... debugging, trust, accountability, audits, and incident response. The teams in the best position will be the ones that build this into workflows early, before it becomes painful to add later. Comment from shrivas Vishal(@shrivas_vishal): i think early stage

... recently joined @appsumo Radar , which got me thinking about the role AppSumo plays for early-stage SaaS products after a Product Hunt launch. My impression is that it's a great opportunity to connect with engaged early adopters who are willing to explore new products, provide honest feedback, and help shape the roadmap while also becoming early customers. I'm curious how other founders see it. If you've launched on AppSumo, what was your experience? Did it help ...

... that's not a criticism. The internet took years to go from "browse pages" to "infrastructure that runs everything." AI is moving 10xfaster, but the adoption pattern is the same. Here's what I'm seeing across the community: Stage one is where most people are right now. They open ChatGPT or Claude, ask a question, copy the answer, close the tab. It's useful, but it's manual. Stage

... sites over the years. The pattern was always the same: building was the fun part, but getting users was where things stalled. Great products, zero distribution. So I built FounderPilot an AI growth engine that runs your early-stage marketing on autopilot: Finds your buyers across Reddit, X, Hacker News, Instagram & Dev and scores them by buying intent Drafts contextual replies + DMs and runs email outreach (you stay in control) Submits you to 50+ directories and tracks status ...

... Rephrase is a new stage in the localization pipeline that rewrites translations to read like native, idiomatic copy in the target locale. The async localization pipeline runs rephrase right after the core localization step. An AI agent rewrites the translation preferring local equivalents over literal renderings, keeping placeholders, variables, tags, and formatting exactly as-is, and applying your engine's glossary, brand voice, and instructions the same way the core localization step does. Downstream stages

... Human-in-the-loop for in-house AI translation review. The async localization pipeline includes human-in-the-loop review an optional stage where the job pauses until a human edits or approves the AI translation. Until now, that stage

... localization pipeline  wraps the core translate step with optional stages, each independently toggleable per engine and overridable per job: Pre-localization AI edit .  An AI agent cleans the source payload before translation, so a single source error doesn't propagate across every target locale. Post-localization human edit .  Sends the translation to a qualified human translator. The job pauses on a webhook until the edit returns. Post-localization AI review .  Reconciles the human output against ... ... combining human judgment with AI validation creates a stronger quality assurance process than relying on either one alone. Comment from Raj Kumar(@new_user___0932026a86e905cf4b2b7f7): I've worked with similar processes, and I think the pre-edit stage

... mcpherson2): What am I building? Founder's Climb, a journaling app that helps founders see how far they've actually come by measuring progress from where they started, not where they wish they were. Who's it for? Early-stage founders and solo builders who feel behind every single day even though they're actually making real progress. Hardest part right now? Distribution, hands down. I built the thing but getting net-new people to even discover it exists ... ... some need positioning, some need launch support. Being clear about which pain you solve is half the battle. Manually reviewing real founder posts to test the tool is honestly the right approach at this stage

... Most people think the design gap is skill . It's not. It's motion . Here's the journey that led me to build ExodeUI: **Stage 1: The Illustrator lie** As a kid, I downloaded Illustrator. Bulky. Intimidating. Closed it and believed I had zero talent. **Stage

... founder & CTO of SEATECHONE, based in Seattle. We built SEAREI ( searei.com ) after realizing virtual staging had a serious legal blind spot. The problem: virtual staging

... 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

... people) sit in a gap between analytics advice written for solo founders and advice written for Fortune 500 data teams. Neither fits. This post covers what good dashboards, reports, and OKRs actually look like at that scale. Tools by stage. The mistakes most teams make. The most expensive mistake is over-tooling, not under-tooling. Looker for 5 people is worse than a spreadsheet. Most starting-up SaaS have all the possible integrated tools collecting data, but no data analyst ... ... grew Y because of Z, here is what we are doing next" is the headline. OKRs tie strategy to metrics Objectives are aspirational. Key results are measurable, time-bounded, and have an owner. The parts people get wrong: Leading vs

... without outsourcing.         Remodroom : takes a single room photo and generates a photorealistic redesign. Upload a photo, choose a style direction, see the space transformed. Built for renovation planning, real estate staging, and client approvals. Both work from images. No CAD file required. No design software learning curve. The AI reads the image. Who is using this:         Interior designers showing clients finished rooms before any build begins ... ... Residential developers producing AI virtual staging

... Product Hunt! I'm Sara. Three years ago I was a business consultant. Now I work as an Venture Capital Investor , focused on pre-seed and seed stage founders. I've seen a lot of pitches. I've also seen founders struggle to tell their story in a way that lands with investors. So I'm opening up free sessions for early-stage

... reviewed a few early-stage startup products recently and noticed the same pattern repeatedly: users dropping during onboarding weak conversion funnels unclear feature priorities operational friction slowing growth Most early-stage