... gonna lie. A topic like this was outlined on X, and many people were discussing it. It s controversial, especially from the perspective of old-school programmers who strongly defend the knowledge they gained through long discussions, reading, and trial and error. Now, someone can just come along, write a prompt, quickly get an output, and monetise it. Personally, I consider software built by someone who truly knows how to program to be more honest. I see that person ... ... their own logo's. :-( Comment from David Sherer(@david_sherer): Here is how I look at it. You have an idea and you build a business around that idea. but that idea needs software so now you have to hire

... technology affecting our effort, using free time and learning (brain activity)? Comment from Shyun Bill(@shyunbill): That 55% drop in brain activity is a total gut punch it s like our mental gears are getting rusty because we ve hired an AI to do all the heavy lifting. While you re using it as a gym partner to explain the "why," many are just using it as a "skip" button, which turns the brain from a muscle into a couch ... ... from Ashraf Mahmoud(@amm8): As you describe, it comes down to how you use Ai. For general purposes things that I know, I use AI as tool to summarize information. I can check the results because I know the topic

... signals, and even city-visit alerts into one clean, actionable dashboard. What it currently does Founder Discovery search & filter 12,400+ founders by industry, stage, location AI Insights trending topics and market signals Event Intelligence see who s attending before you arrive Opportunity Alerts city visits, funding, hiring

... seconds whether the author has actually sat in the same chair. What does compound: credentials + shipped artifacts. The CFA charter, FMWC Top-4, and CFI 3rd-place placements get the door open; the Medium pieces and templates on practitioner topics (DSCR sculpting, tax equity, merchant power) are what convert. Cold brand-building without artifacts feels hollow in niche professional markets and over-investing in personal brand before you have a product to anchor it tends to age badly. So: build ... ... seen people build everything on their personal LinkedIn, their email, their following only to wake up and realize they basically made a one-person consultancy instead of a true product. You can t sell that. You can t hire

... open your GenAI tool (Claude, Gemini, etc.), type "write a LinkedIn post about [your topic]," get back something that sounds professional and polished, and immediately know it sounds fake. But you're stuck. You don't have time to rewrite the whole thing, and you don't really know how to make it sound more like you without starting from scratch. So, maybe, you tweak a sentence or two and post it anyway, knowing it sounds like AI. Then ... ... gave it your specific story - like the time you had to make the official first hire

... advantage, and build relationships with clients/users on a more personal level. Here are a few examples: A local advertising agency, Visbility, holds Friday Beer at 5 PM meetups where they educate the general public about content marketing and other topics. Lovable holds hackathons for builders. Product Hunt organises pitch days (like that one today) to improve "starting positions" of makers. The things your company does for its community should still be industry-based, but go beyond the product and offer ... ... kind of thing that builds real loyalty, give before you ask. Comment from Nayan Surya(@nayan_surya98): We are trying to use marketed through students as well as community leaders, so we are trying to spread the word for HireID

... productive How will we now be able to determine seniority and level of progress when each of us owns an AI assistant? (By years of service? By successfully applying code from the AI? Real-world outcomes?) I see this topic as important, especially because salary has always depended on seniority. It would be good to know how the perception of progress and the remuneration associated with it is changing. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @andreitudor14  In that case ... ... know way more than someone who's been dabbling for five years. The real shift is that now we can actually see who produces results versus who just talks about their experience, and that's probably going to make hiring

... much you trust them depends way more on how you set up the context guardrails, instructions, steering than on the model itself. Like maybe 30% is the model and 70% is your prep work. Best analogy I have is hiring a summer intern from college. Smart kid, learns fast, sometimes even brilliant. But then you realize you spend 2x more time supervising this intern than just doing the thing yourself :D Trust comes when you stop expecting magic and start ... ... asked the same questions the doctors had asked. I don't have a problem with that as I am trying to figure out what is going on and what I can do about it. when it comes to dividing topics

... capture without disclosure is a fast way to break trust permanently, even if the intent is benign. So yes, I'd stay but you'd hear about it. Comment from Olia Nemirovski(@olia_nemirovski): This is such a nuanced topic. I already assume every business call is being recorded (I use AI assistants a lot myself). My assistant always announces it upfront in the chat. Beyond that, we solve most of it with NDAs, and they explicitly cover call recordings ... ... health problems that were more of an aesthetic character; in that state, I wasn't comfortable showing up on the camera, team respected that. At the moment, I think that voice-taking is enough for business purposes. For hiring

... thing is that when you fake publicly, users, investors etc, and hire even people (who trust you, your project, trading their time to feed themselves and families, and one day he drops the truth...) I dunno, but this kind of risk expose not only himself, but other people in the company and their families too. Comment from Jake Friedberg(@jake_friedberg): This is a great thread topic

... Nobody talks honestly about what faceless YouTube channels actually cost to run. So here's a real breakdown. Monthly costs for a 2-video/week channel: Voiceover (the biggest variable): Hiring a narrator: $50-200 per video (varies wildly by length and quality) Cloud AI TTS (ElevenLabs, Murf, etc.): $22-99/mo depending on character limits Self-recording: $0, but 2-4 hours per video for scripting + recording + editing takes Local AI TTS tools: $0-30/mo one-time, unlimited after ... ... slop evidence based study generation audio generation compilation everything as I watch almost every video that goes out. Here is what my system does while I sleep: Every night, the system picks a fresh trending topic

... many people reach out on linkedin after i submitted my latest product here. this definitely changed over the last few years and is kind of annoying. I blocked all of those people reaching out to me - unfortunately the topic itself is not "obvious enough" that a linkedin reporting would help. Hearing that PH is actively working on a balancing system in the background for votes is definitely assuring! Comment from Swapnil Jain(@jainswapnil14): The assumption that new accounts ... ... they reach out - their accounts will be banned. Great to hear the team is digging into this also ***^ Comment from Jean-Marc Perelmuter(@jumpman): @mikekerzhner Thank you but what are we to do if Top Hunters can be hired

... want to claim my time, the higher I need to set my price (not surprisingly, I then often get ghosted). I look at it this way: I approach pricing as if I were already planning to delegate work or hire more people in the future. I am thinking about growth, and that s not possible without higher pricing. Doing a small research survey: What indicators do you consider when pricing marketing services? And what amounts are you willing ... ... Human services are something different. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @tereza_hurtova  the thing is... what is the model then? Creating a fixed-priced package + % from revenueor? Comment from Tereza Hurtov (@tereza_hurtova): @busmark_w_nika Great topic

... quickly. It's no longer relevant in 10 minutes. What helps you quickly navigate the world of AI? I caught the latest news about AI from: trend topics in the Bluesky or X feed . (Eg. Amazon Layoffs ) or from Product Hunt forums ( @fmerian posted today about OpenAI just acqui-hire

... Last year we hired a design agency to build our marketing site for @Basedash . They did an incredible job. The headline makes it sound like I'm dunking on them, but I'm not. The site was genuinely great. They built it in Framer so we could manage content ourselves, which was a completely reasonable bet at the time (and something we explicitly asked for). But over the past few months it s been begging me to migrate it over ... ... fact-checking process? Definitely a concern. I am testing a few ways to do this. But, while I work on tweaking the AI, my plan is manual verification initially and hence I plan to start with a select few topics

... Tonkotsu is a fresh approach to coding with agents, in a clean, opinionated GUI @Usagebar is a macOS menu bar app that tracks your Claude Code 5-hour and weekly usage limits Best AI model for coding tasks? Hot topic right now: if you write code with AI, which model are you picking? As pointed out in The Frontier , replies vary significantly and it seems that there are two distinct AI coding styles. On one hand, some people swear ... ... hand, others mention combos depending on the tasks, suggesting OpenAI's GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 when debugging. What's your preference? Take the survey The job board Recent dev-first products launched on the site that are actively hiring

... properties on the globe - are building enterN after being in the trenches as someone behind the scenes and as jobseekers. Everyone knows the hiring process is broken. So, we have developed a bias-resistant, resume-free approach to hiring

... Vercel is hiring a Software Engineer, hybrid US @Mastra is hiring

... tech launches and extremely novel product ideas get a lot of organic engagement on PH. Comment from Rohan Chaubey(@rohanrecommends): @busmark_w_nika  Haha, not yet, I will do soon :D Comment from Rohan Chaubey(@rohanrecommends): Great topic, Nika! :) My core belief is... launch when you're ready, not when the calendar says you should! The PR industry often recommends launching between Wednesday and Thursday, avoiding Mondays (everyone s catching up) and Fridays (people are mentally checking ... ... from Siarhei(@siarhei_ai): @busmark_w_nika Weekdays win for me higher quality traffic and faster feedback from real users (Tue-Thu best). Weekends = more casual browsers, lower conversion, but easier to go viral if something catches fire. Launched HireXHub

... bring them to market sooner. That s why my advice is: focus on your own interests and strengths! Opportunities like these will always exist. Comment from Pamela Arienti(@pamela_arienti): @busmark_w_nika That's a very interesting topic! I'm not sure I totally agree with what you wrote, @byalexai In the Middle Ages, merchants were needed because people weren't used to traveling to Asia to buy stuff, and the same is true for more recent importers ... ... weeks. So the dropshipper s profit comes from your convenience and security because even if something goes wrong, you can take legal action in your own country. But if the seller is in China, I doubt you d hire

... help from suggesting conversation openers based on recent posts to highlighting shared topics that make your message feel natural, not scripted. And yet, even with these advances, one thing hasn t changed, the process still takes hours. Tracking who you ve reached out to, copy-pasting notes, remembering to follow up, it s still manual, messy, and exhausting. That realization became the spark behind HirePilot

... feeling Reddit keeps a close eye on duplicate posts, and it might look like spam even if the post is relevant. It probably depends on the specific subreddit and how the text is written or adapted to the topic. But that s just my guess. Comment from Rajan Batra(@rajan_batra3): @busmark_w_nika I did get some validation, not enough to consider it validated but I decided to pivot to a different idea/market because I didn't feel ... ... development. By the way.. big fan of yours!!! Comment from Michael(@lattecino): @busmark_w_nika  Thank you Nika. I will, once the I have something meaningful to share. Maybe in the future I can hire

... solved it IMHO. Product Forums are underrated. From my perspective, they are places to talk all-things product: announcements, updates, best practices... and careers, too! See examples with @v0 by Vercel : Hiring: Product Engineer and Senior Product Marketing Manager Hiring

... management but also manage mental wellbeing (which is health I'd say!). Curious to know your thoughts on this as well Comment from Robin Greenwood(@robingreenwood): Things might be changing. There's an upcoming event in Berlin on this topic: https://agetechx.com/ The website includes founders and investors focusing on longevity, esp how it's impacting Europe. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @robingreenwood  Finally another conference! I know that one Health-oriented was in Sweden but didn ... ... indeed risky, as you mentioned in your opinion. To do anything in the medical field, experience is required, and I believe AI will not be able to help with the finer details, so it would be necessary to hire

... would I work on this for at least 5 years before starting it? 16. Hiring hesitation always costs more than waiting. I learned to "only hire