... product builder with 4 years of experience in design, and I build what I design: websites, dashboards, and AI tools. I recently launched Flintel ( getflintel.com ), an AI tool that finds what people say about a brand, product, or topic, starting with Reddit

... post what I'm building, what broke that day, the one real thing a user said. the part that surprised me: a rough behind the scenes clip almost always beats the polished one, people want the messy real version. Reddit and PH I use to actually talk to people, not broadcast. my honest question back, how many platforms can you realistically keep alive solo before it starts eating the actual building time? Comment from Linoy Bar-Gal(@linoy ... ... Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): LinkedIn as my primary for building personal brand. X for build in public Reddit

... hated that idea, dating apps are designed to be deleted. I wanted to build a place where people actually stay . So, I took the deep discussions of Reddit, the real-time feed of X/Twitter, the aesthetic of early Discord, and the gamification of Steam. I removed the toxic algorithmic feeds and built topic

... originally built it because manually searching Reddit for brand mentions, backlinks, and community discussions was slow and inconsistent. I wanted a faster way to answer questions like: Where is a website being mentioned on Reddit

... extent. I can't really imagine how TikTok and Instagram work for tech products =D Do you have any experience with that? Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @niveditha_patluri1  Thanks for sharing your observations! How do you approach Reddit? We're trying to get more familiar with how it works there =) Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @chriscarex  Yes, I m leaning more and more towards this too... Which social media platforms do you think work best for this ... ... that is now where the whole game is. My advice for 2026 and 2027: pick the channel where AI removes your bottleneck rather than the one that is fashionable, then spend the time you saved on choosing the topics

... searchable knowledge base over time. Somewhere you can search a topic, read different perspectives from founders who have actually been through it, continue discussions, and help others facing the same challenge later on. Would something like that actually be useful, or do you think founders will always prefer using existing platforms? Curious to hear what everyone thinks. Comment from Gal Dayan(@galdayan): the reason it fragments across reddit

... system he built, and he also joined our marketing manager, Nicole, for an interview. Join the AMA on Reddit through the end of this week Read Ricardo s nine-step field guide to Recall Watch the interview Improvements and Bugs Improved AI for tags, connections, summaries, and quizzes Tags reuse your existing tree more often Connections focus on the core topics

... good, lazy prompting produces the "slop" feeling regardless of who's behind it. The pricing thing is interesting though, I think we undervalue the judgment and editing part, not the output itself. Comment from Richard Acheampong (@richatsealedvault): Another interesting topic Nika, I think AI generated products are great as long as the user put's in enough efforts to make it professional. Unfortunately, many AI users want the AI to do almost everything automatically. AI as I said earlier ... ... said nothing. I closed every tab, kind of angry haha. None of them were badly written. They just didn't help at all. All generic water. Even the "how-to" video content is nowadays mostly AI-generated. Only Reddit

... people in one Reddit thread called a comment of mine AI generated, in the same register I have used across every platform for weeks without issue. Went back and audited the account instead of arguing about it. The pattern that got flagged was not length or structure. It was confident mechanism reasoning with no first-hand marker in it, nothing that said I actually did this. Comment karma on that account went from 1 to 26 over two weeks once ... ... today, so it is fresh rather than remembered. five people in one r/sysadmin thread, and a mod removed the post a few hours later. i checked the surface things first and they were all wrong. normal capitalisation, no ai topic

... nika): @cekuu35  So basically, most of the work you had to customise was the landing page, right? Or did I misunderstand that? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @emircankaragoz  I can surely say that posting on Reddit during launch day was totally counterproductive. DMs on LinkedIn helped a lot and building a personal brand long-term makes sense because people are more likely to talk to you, remember you :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @abdullah_javaid3 ... ... right rooms that the buried admissions find you instead of the other way around. makes sense why the LinkedIn-connections point mattered more to you than the launch badge - you can't shortcut "already following the right topics

... visibility were its own stable channel with its own rules, a single update wouldn't be able to erase 50 points of it overnight. what actually happened is the model reweighted which real-world sources it trusts, and Reddit got deprioritized. that's not a channel collapsing, that's a proxy for reputation moving, same as it would if Google devalued a link category. the practical answer for founders is you can't budget for "AI visibility ... ... that legacy source has higher retrieval weight. That s why "nudging the whole mix" rarely works. The move is to spot the anchor source and focus on creating fresh, highly-citeable counter-content targeted specifically at that exact sub-topic

... more than 1,000% in recent months. When you reframe backlinks as part of entity SEO, an unlinked mention on Reddit could be just as valuable as a dofollow link on a site with a mid-level DA score. Reddit

... marketing will always crush an elite product hidden behind an anonymous build. Stop viber-coding in the dark. Go find your users. Comment from Chris Smallfield(@minimal_human): Good thoughts. How s it working out though? You nailed the topics, troubles and frustrations, but the market indifference is real. Have you gained traction with these methods? Comment from Marwane Baddouch(@marwane_baddouch): @leond1  It's a pleasure! What is the exact site domain name? Comment from Leon(@leond1 ... ... find my first real users ? Comment from Leon(@leond1): @marwane_baddouch  Thank you ! It is holiday-hub-elite.netlify.app Comment from Marwane Baddouch(@marwane_baddouch): @leond1  For this website, I think you can start to share your website on Reddit

... Your landing page drives conversions. 3. Tracking installs from the plugin You can track where users come from by adding a custom parameter to your Chrome Web Store link . When you share the link on LinkedIn, Product Hunt, or Reddit, add a different UTM parameter to each source . For example: ?utm_source=linkedin ?utm_source=producthunt You can see the results in Google Analytics. Without tracking, you will not know what works. The idea has potential LinkedIn restrictions ... ... updates on X. I d focus on a few things. First, LinkedIn should definitely be your main distribution channel. Since the product is built for LinkedIn users, I d work on building a strong and recognizable LinkedIn account around topics

... enough with to release. Building the products, and getting them ready for distribution, that no longer is the issue. Reaching the people that would be interested is much harder! Comment from Pritam(@im_pritam): https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Type a topic and get a hand-drawn slide deck in about two minutes Comment from Arjun H N(@arjun_h_n): Hey everyone! I'm Arjun, a solo technical founder building from India. I spent months staring ... ... connect with me over LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/ric-v/ or connect over email on ric-v@astrx.dev Comment from Zeeshan Akhtar(@zeeshan_akhtar1): Build an AI Search visibility tool that doesn't backlog SEO. Provides tracking, actionable ideas to improve it, topic

... this Reddit post today and it hit so close to home. I've had this exact conversation multiple times. AI Memory is a topic

... life OS one platform that replaces the 10+ apps most people juggle daily. Instead of Instagram for photos, Reddit for communities, Strava for fitness, Duolingo to learn, and a notes app for thoughts everything connects in one place. What's inside: Lines & Dots share real moments (text/photo, no filters, no pressure) Bloom short-form learning organized by topic

... Single digit upvotes, zero signups. The product had months in it. The distribution had about a day. So my contribution is mostly the other kind: what didn't work, and what I did instead. Didn't work: posting to Reddit from a new account. Auto-filtered before a human ever saw it. Nobody warns you the karma gates exist, so the post quietly disappears and you assume it just flopped. Worth knowing if that's your plan. Decided against: paid ... ... product everywhere I could . I d join relevant X Spaces, post consistently, share what I m building, and find communities where my target users already spend time. I will add value there. Will connect with key figures around my topic

... merchant of record, guidelines read twice. The user base doesn't work like that. You notice it's missing and there is nothing you can do about it in the same week. Two weeks of posting on X, LinkedIn, Reddit and IH. Zero signups. My posts get about 8 impressions each, which I spent a while treating as a copy problem before I understood it was arithmetic. So I'd move that item to the top of your list rather ... ... year now, previously in other business models online, and over this past year I've dabbled into so much: + 50 articles about app growth, ideas, content saved on my X account + countless YouTube videos watched on the same topics

... JSON-LD schema, and an AI-SEO check before publish. Handle each of those manually and you've just traded one bottleneck for four. So I turned the pipeline into four Claude skills that chain together. Topic Research pulls from People Also Ask, Reddit

... product properly, like 2 weeks :D and @roopesh_donde had a good point that I should. incorporate the questions first, whether they were satisfied or not :D Comment from Abusaid islam said(@abusaid_islam_said): Great topic, @busmark_w_nika ! Early on, we found that asking users for feedback right after they achieve a small win with the product works best. Instead of asking for a generic "review," we ask: "What problem did this solve for you today?" That usually ... ... hundred that say nice app. Comment from Konrad S.(@konrad_sx): For my Android app, I have a page on my website where I collect nice reviews from Google Play and also some other places like Product Hunt and Reddit

... good channel(=customer - channel fit). Comment from Rutvik Panchal(@therutvikpanchal): Getting users and doing marketting, with AI we can launch easily but for getting real users and promoting our business is really hard. As most of communities in reddit is not allowing self-promotion, so too much narrow path there, X and Threads is kind of random sometime your posts get attention and then suddenly it went 0. Instagram is good but need to go with consistancy there. So hardest ... ... anything from the ground up, I would just follow tutorial after tutorial, and it felt like I wasn't really getting anywhere. After watching quite a few, I started building from scratch and doing my own research on various topics

... doing everything in bursts, you can run out of energy very soon. Wishing you GL! :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @marie_saxon  How long have you been building MettaShift? It sounds like a very comprehensive project (the topic is very huge). I am a fan of your sports effort :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @mustafa_najoom  Which is your LinkedIn? I would like to connect with you :) Comment from Prashant Patil(@prashant_patil14): @busmark_w_nika ... ... from Rick Ovelar(@rickcuella): Hi, Nika! My Q3 main goal is to finish garageexit.com 's functionality before end of July. Then ship it! Then focus on distribution, distribution, distribution, which means more time in places like X, Product Hunt, Reddit

... actually surfaces the tab when the time comes. Three reminder modes: Exact time ("Tuesday 9am") Recurring ("every Monday morning") "Next time I open Chrome" my favorite, because it catches you in the moment you'd otherwise scroll Reddit instead The reminder pops as a discreet popup, a floating window, or a full-screen tab depending on how much you want to be interrupted. Built solo, bootstrapped, on top of chrome.storage .sync so your data syncs across your devices via your ... ... tracking. Free version is fully functional. Pro adds unlimited categories, recurring reminders, and a full-page dashboard. 7-day Pro trial without credit card. Today I'm launching on Product Hunt. If you have 30 seconds and the topic

... become not only a place for discovering startup ideas, but also a way to connect founders with their first real users. That part became especially interesting to me after all these conversations. Thank you for bringing up this topic :) Comment from Thami Benjelloun(@thamibenjelloun): Funny enough, mailwarm.com wasn t even the product we originally wanted to build. Back at Station F in Paris, every startup around was struggling with cold email deliverability and trying to get clients through email outreach ... ... make them stay. Unfortunately, I ran out of budget I didn't even have $12 left for ads so I had to start looking for organic marketing channels. For organic growth, I optimized my ASO and turned to Reddit