... Product Hunt community! I m currently in the process of finalizing the offer strategy for a new product, and I need your input. Specifically, I m torn between offering a trial period versus a refund policy for customers. I d love to hear your thoughts on both options. Trial Period Pros : Low barrier to entry for new users. Allows customers to test out the product before making a commitment. Builds trust and encourages engagement. Cons : Add noises for conversion. Refund ...

... noticed two main narratives in how companies view their competitors. Either it s a fight to the death approach exactly like what we see between Replit and Lovable (though it seems Replit does more of the provoking ) basically: We speak badly about our competition. Or it s more motivational: We speak positively about our competition. Tho I do not know whether I have seen some example of this competition, I can see it only in terms of personal branding when ... ... people do not want to say bad things about someone, even when they are competitors

... Product Hunt I m building LitmusB.com , a tool that helps product teams stay ahead by: Benchmarking your product s UX against competitors Tracking what your competitors

... indie hacker forums, and startup graveyards you'll never find manually. What we built: An AI that acts like 100 researchers working in parallel. Give us your idea in plain English, and in 4 minutes we'll surface: Direct competitors (obvious ones) Indirect threats (the not-so-obvious ones) Failed startups in your space (learn from their mistakes) The ACTUAL keywords your customers use (spoiler: it's not what you think) The kicker: Your first 3 reports are completely free ... ... card required. One founder told us: "I discovered 12 competitors

... here product hunt forums. Comment from Syed Ahmed(@syedahmedz): I recently stopped paying for cursor and moved fully to Claude Code. It is a step up in pricing but the output is usually more accurate and requires fewer iterations vs what I'd have to do in Cursor with the same prompt. I also have some really interesting data from our own user base on Cursor code quality with Claude vs

... into this community's experience on price-setting for B2C software (ours helps job seekers). The long story short is we ve been leaning towards entering a fairly established market at significantly lower pricing (like ~4-5x) than competitors. The thesis is this will help us A) attract users in general, and B) drive better unit economics by focusing more on capturing paid users and not focusing (much?) on total user acquisition (paid + free). Here are my primary ... ... cheapen product perception before users even give it a chance. How have you decided how much to give away for free if you do run free accounts ? Ideally I think we d lean into a trial-only model, but competitors

... Recently, I had an experience that made me think. I wan on a call with a potential customer, and during the call they asked how we compared to another tool. I had never heard of it. Turns out, this competitor launched a few months ago and was getting attention in the same space. I tried to learn about them on the spot while on the call, but it didn't go well. The customer didn't sign ... ... realized I need to do a better job of staying updated on new tools in my space. As a small team, it's hard to keep up. We're busy building and improving Draftly, so tracking every new competitor