... Someone offered to help me with a problem last month. They were knowledgeable, generous with their time, and genuinely well meaning. I did not take the call. I told myself I was busy. The honest reason is that I was afraid the call would tell me something I did not want to know. I had been circling the same problem for weeks, and I had a feeling the answer was simpler than what I was doing. A conversation would have ... ... just asked. I think a lot of my slowest progress is not a skill problem. It is hiding from information I already suspect. Do you ever avoid the conversation you know would fix it? And what makes you finally take

... 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

... good. Second: people who trust reviews completely and rarely question them, since they're the ones who need Merzify most and will tell you honestly whether the result actually changes their mind or just gets ignored. Your developer versus user finding matches what I'd expect, though. Developers are trained to find the edge case. Users mostly tell you whether something felt right, which is a different and honestly harder signal to extract, since "it's okay" is often hiding ... ... only test your product when there is an incentive. They might read about it and move. How did you get 20 testers for your extension, I am interested because I have a chrome extension I need to launch too? Taking

... days you are telling Google not to crawl you. Google is still roughly 88% of referral traffic on Cloudflare's own numbers. That's not a content-licensing decision, it's an accident. The opt-out exists and takes about a minute: Security Settings, then Configure AI bot policies. You can confirm you want no change to Training crawlers that also crawl for Search, and you can set each of the three categories independently, with three levels each: block everywhere ... ... block only on pages that display ads, or allow. Two things I want to be accurate about, because the hot takes

... just two separate layers doing different jobs. Reach is a prevention question: should this be allowed to happen without a human. Reversibility is a recovery question: when the gate is wrong, and it will be, how much can you take back. Gate perfectly on reach with no recovery layer and you're one misclassification from the same outcome, except now nobody's watching because the gate cleared it. Recovery with no gate lets the thing reach 50k people and then ... ... derive. Comment from Aadil Ghani(@aadilghani): @alex_amancio_candoa_   Both of those are the same move at different layers, and it generalises well enough to be worth naming. Redaction takes

... testing is going on. Do you think I should create a pH page? Can I decide a future launch date? Comment from Tulon(@devtulon): Only when the product is functional, polishing and bug fixing are separate journeys and they take time. Comment from Adity Kushawaha(@adity_kushawaha): @busmark_w_nika  Very soon. Finishing a few things on the product side, then I m putting it out there and learning from real users. Comment from Adity Kushawaha(@adity_kushawaha): @andreasof ... ... same problem exists anywhere one person is planning for several people, so there may be more to it eventually, but I haven't built a separate offer around that yet. Your Positioning point is the one I'll take

... July and August are approaching. The months when pretty much everyone in Europe takes time off. So I'm curious how other founders here handle it. A lot of founders end up taking

... Ludwinowski(@anna_ludwinowski): @picspace  "What changed for the user" instead of "what did I build" is exactly the right swap! It's the same trap in enterprise IT and in most launches here, just dressed differently (feature list vs. demo). Since you mentioned the sentence changes as you learn: do you have an example of how yours shifted for picspace? Like what the early version of the problem sentence was, versus

... businesses I've seen isn't price tbh, it's the fear that something will break their current checkout flow during a busy shift. Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): @l_patpat  Congrats on taking the leap patpat, building this full-time takes

... replaced it Slack - unavoidable, love/hate relationship Curious how many people here have fully replaced their note taking app with an AI native one at this point, feels like that category is churning the most for me lately. Comment from Sina Meraji(@sinamerajii): claude code @Willow Voice @Cloudflare twitter lol Comment from Sumit Singh Chauhan(@sumit_singh_chauhan): My 5: 1. VS

... with an app. To trigger an action. To complete a task. It s simple. Though so difficult to get right. Most of the time, that thing that feels right is probably the right decision. But to get there, it takes time, trial and error, and a lot of iteration. Over and over again, I m learning that the simplest things are the most difficult ones to achieve. Because making things simple is hard. A rare skill not many have. Charlie ... ... founder, is fantastic at this. He can take

... your favorite topics... rarely!" I have struggled with this -- as always! -- so thank you in advance. Comment from Kinton(@kintonc): Thanks a lot for doing this Rajiv! Great to get your expertise. My post : https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Product Name : Take Home Pay by City Tagline : Global after-tax salary comparisons Description : Takehomepay.city compares salaries, taxes, contributions, and living costs across cities worldwide - so you can see where you'll truly save more money. Useful for digital nomads, and anyone considering ... ... building AI-powered Intercom that doesn't have a human backend. Maybe: "Set up AI intercom on your website in 3 minutes" Or "Automated sales chatbot for your website" The real questions is how does this stand out vs