... community! I was recently reflecting on the open-source projects that bring massive daily value versus those that are just cool, experimental concepts. I'd love to hear what your tech stack looks like. I'll start with mine: Most useful - as working in wellness healthcare, my fav right now is Open Wearables. It is incredibly useful because it finally allows me to easily integrate and sync health data across various different wearable devices without a headache. (Fun fact ... ... project, but in terms of daily utility? Zero. Still love that it exists though! Now it's your turn: What is the one Open Source tool you actually use all the time? What is a tool that is totally useless

... reading Nika's thread here about free vs paid features. Really made me think. Link: https://www.producthunt.com/p/ge... ( shout-out to @busmark_w_nika ! ) She talks about giving generalized advice for free, but charging for specific, tailored help. That's a good framework. But most product owners figure this out after they build, not before. That's backwards. Your free tier should be designed before you write a single line of code. Because it's not just a marketing tool ... ... mistakes we see Giving away too much. You want people to love the product. So you put everything in the free tier. Now nobody upgrades. You have users but no revenue. Giving away too little. The free tier is useless

... Ghanchi(@jiteshghanchi): I'm going with a 3-day free trial and then paid. In those 3 days, many users recover their yearly costs too. It's all about value, if a free service is too generic, it becomes useless. People pay when a service can make them more money or save time. Comment from Christophe Dupont(@thenomadcode): Solo dev here, built a productivity app (Flowmodoro). My approach: the core experience should always be free and genuinely useful ... ... just letting it rip . I m very curious whether others have struggled with free trial versus

... answer first. If they find it immediately, they cite it. The structure makes extraction easy. Step 2: The Comparison Page Template Comparison pages drove 40% of our citation growth. Here's our exact template: Title: [Brand X] vs [Brand Y]: Which is better for [use case]? Quick verdict (100 words) Who wins and why One sentence summary Feature comparison table Feature Brand X Brand Y Feature A Feature B Feature C Price XX YY Detailed breakdown (by feature) How each ... ... List 3 specific scenarios Final recommendation Summary and call to action Result: This template was cited by ChatGPT 12 times in the first month. Step 3: The FAQ Section That Actually Gets Cited FAQs are everywhere. Most are useless

... engaging with the many charities and institutions that are supposed to help people in this situation. He wasn't on drugs or drinking. Just had some bad luck. Despite this, all the services I spoke with were useless and, if I'm honest, seemed only to be interested in the money aspect. It took me 18 months, nearly 75 letters and emails, and countless phone calls to finally secure him a home. He got put with a heroin addict ... ... worse was that because he was classed as only just being made homeless, he was put at the back of the queue. That's when I realised the system and the safeguards meant to protect and help were useless

... Fred from Switzerland. I ve been working on this small experimental website futile.ch It s completely useless and that s the point :sweat_smile: You just scroll, and it measures the void in millimeters. > https://futile.ch/en/ I d really love to hear what you think any feedback or ideas to make it even more absurd (or beautiful ...

... honest: manual copy-paste is an insult to productivity. I had hundreds of valuable Kindle highlights trapped in Amazon's ecosystem. Useless. It's a digital graveyard for knowledge. You read, you highlight, and the ideas die there. So I built Kindle2Notion . It's a simple, no-BS browser extension that fixes this permanently. It extracts all your highlights, notes, and book covers. Sends everything to a Notion database you control. 100% open-source. No servers, no fees, no data ...

... attention. I wrote my most viral post in 10 minutes while having morning coffee. You never know what will take off. Don't overthink it, just start writing and posting. 2. Don't be afraid to help competitors Some people say building in public I only give my competitors