... person, it might be literally $0; for another, it might be $3k/mo till break-even. Break-even on another hand depends on the nature of business + market (whether you need to scale adoption vs start charging right away) So it depends on geo + situation + (most importantly) the nature of the startup. Comment from Bart van de Kooij(@bartvandekooij): Zero. Domain via vercel. Cold lean gen via Apollo. Content via social channels. All is free Comment from Jonathan Gorczyca(@watch84 ... ... busmark_w_nika): @qasimkhan  It would be worth having some excel sheet to track those expenses :D Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @qasimkhan  Have you already started with marketing? Can you compare amounts for production (tech) vs

... feature. Bluesky's challenge is the same one every decentralized platform faces: the technology is better but the network effects live somewhere else. The invite-only beta for Attie is smart though. Controlled rollout lets them iterate before the inevitable backlash from users who joined Bluesky specifically to escape algorithmic AI feeds. That tension between "we need AI to grow" and "our users came here to escape AI" is going to be their biggest challenge. Curious ... ... Oshenye(@oshylabs): I use Claude's API across several of my own products so I have a stake in this. The Attie backlash makes sense to me though. Bluesky's entire identity was built on being the open, human alternative

... days if you have a solid freemium tier. It seems like it adds some confusion and just defers the inevitable conversion or churn for Premium features by 7 days. I m at a cross road of likely ripping the trial out in favor of just letting it rip . I m very curious whether others have struggled with free trial versus

... When we launched Starnus our competitors were charging $100+/month. So we thought let's undercut them. Start at $20. Make it a no brainer. Signups were great. Payments? Almost zero. Here's what actually changed our MRR: 1. Cheap pricing kills trust At $20 people treated the product like a free tool. Sign up, poke around, leave. No urgency. No commitment. We raised to $49 starter and $184 pro and more people started paying. Not less. Higher price = higher ... ... card on trial point is the one most founders resist the longest. But you're right, people who won't enter a card to try something they claim they want were never serious buyers. You're just delaying the inevitable

... When building a product as a startup, it s almost inevitable that you ll reach a point where you need to pivot, whether it s at the hypothesis stage or after launching a product. But how can we ensure that a pivot becomes more than just a change in direction and actually leads to real growth for the team and product? My conclusion was this: we need to clearly define the domain we want to focus on and pivot only ... ... leading to rapid growth of the agent ecosystem. Rather than debating whether it s a red ocean or blue ocean, I see this pace of growth and ecosystem development as an opportunity that can t be disregarded - and the inevitable

... usually the harder, more valuable thing to get right. dont get caught spending 40 hours trying to perfect a name/domain and then you build something no one even wants, prioritize it right... Comment from Keesan(@keesan12): Hot take: domain vs product is the easy decision compared with workflow clarity. I d rather validate the painful user path first, then buy the domain once I know the promise is real. The bigger cost is not rebranding later, it s spending weeks ... ... product and ended up using that domain. Comment from Victoria Wu(@victoria_wu): Everyone says they build the product first but let s be real most of us have emotionally committed to a domain name before we even open VS

... filters and the ability to sort by daily ranking/upvotes. Stack: Vercel, Supabase, GitHub Actions, Puppeteer, ShadCN, NextJS Is there anything you would've done differently? What do you think of the design? Any suggestions on how to manage the inevitable image storage limit on Supabase? VisualPH.com ...

... think is perfect for answering certain types of questions, please let us know we d greatly appreciate your input. Recap is built around two key pillars: Asking better questions and Providing better answers. We believe this is the inevitable direction for knowledge tools in the AI era. Now you still can follow our first launch now: Recap on Product Hunt We look forward to providing you with a perfect experience on Recap! Comment from Jatin Lalit(@jatin_lalit): @zhiqi ...