... other reputable sources will talk about them. The link is just the evidence. The citation context idea is where this should go. Not "here is a site that will link to you." But "here is a writer covering a topic where your expertise fills a gap. Here is why their audience would care. Here is the specific data point or example you can offer." That changes the conversation. From "can I get a link" to "can I help someone write ... ... Google s E-E-A-T is about relevance, not just raw power. I d rather have a "low-DR" link that my target persona trusts than a "high-DR" link that just sits there looking pretty on a spreadsheet

... user path come from people who already have a repeated painful workflow, not people who simply like the founder. The useful distinction for me is: did they change behavior before the product existed? If they were already using a spreadsheet, a messy prompt doc, a VA, a hacked-together Zapier flow, etc., the first product conversation is much easier because you are replacing an active workaround rather than trying to create urgency from scratch. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika ... ... 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

... collar jobs first. The question is, if one option wins, how do we ensure the energy efficiency of these AI/robotic solutions and how do we ensure that it is cheaper than humans? Comment from Robert Vassov(@robert_vassov): Good topic - I researched this area, and wrote about it on my substack. AI/Robotics are already cheaper - the problem is that they're not good enough... yet. Electricity is a constraint - North American's natural gas abundance will support electricity demand until ... ... scene Comment from Tina Chhabra(@tina_chhabra): white collar first and it won't even be close. AI is already writing emails, summarizing meetings, doing research, drafting reports. the physical world is way harder to automate than a spreadsheet

... kill signal I use: if I can't find at least 3 people actively complaining about the problem online, the market is too small or too unbothered. The build signal: when people are already using messy workarounds like spreadsheets and notes apps to solve it themselves. Comment from Dylan Hayes(@dylan_hayes2): I've noticed founders often kill ideas too early when distribution is actually the bigger issue. Comment from Easton Grant(@easton_grant): Do you think founders are better ... ... from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @samir_asadov  at each time, the product is needed differently, so this can be kinda risky, timing plays a role too. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @maliikb  food is an extensive topic

... amraniyasser): I used to track my macros for a while, but now I m back to just basic Apple Health too . Thanks for sharing the category link! Comment from Edward G(@edward_g): The only thing I use is a spreadsheet to track weightlifting. When it comes to health and fitness no amount of tech will substitute discipline to eat right and work out. It s one area of my life I keep pretty tech free since cooking and exercise ... ... idea), and then I was adapting to the app, getting a huge pain in the ass, and finally uninstalling it and feeling happy again :D Comment from Aleksandar Blazhev(@byalexai): Oh, that s a really interesting topic

... excersize, help children with learning disabilities to get up to speed, set up daily plannings, do groceries not everything has to be online and hooked up to heavy AI. Big data and the internet of things have been topics that have been there for decades and we're still not at a level we ought to be.. Comment from Harrie Vermeulen(@harrie_vermeulen): @busmark_w_nika  Just to be sure, we use AI a lot, but only the secured ... ... Most AI tools require uploading your files to their servers, and that's where the real trust question lies. I'd rather use tools that process data locally whenever possible. For repetitive data tasks (like reformatting spreadsheets

... heavy users. The live product is at lucidextractor.liceron.in if you want to see it. Happy to do a quick call to walk through the architecture for your research! Comment from Chris Conlee(@conleec): This is a great research topic, Ryan. As a solo founder launching PictaBase today, I can tell you that for a "pro-sumer" tool, the stack isn't just about what's easy it's about what's provable and sustainable . I built PictaBase ... ... simple and transparent to the end user. Comment from Robert Vassov(@robert_vassov): @ryan_hendrickson  Yea, I specifically developed it because there limited tools to help those who wanted to do their own calculations. It fits between a spreadsheet

... inventory aligned across platforms (WooCommerce first, then others). My focus is less on flashy AI, more on reducing real operational chaos: drift, oversells, broken handoffs, and spreadsheet gymnastics. I m here to learn from operators, share what I m seeing in multichannel workflows, and contribute where I can on product/ops topics

... article, same information, completely different AI visibility just because of how the headline is worded. Comment from OliverHughes(@oliverhughes1): Really insightful breakdown on how structured content impacts AI retrieval. I ve also noticed that inconsistent CSV exports from complex spreadsheets can affect how cleanly datasets are reused across AI workflows. I recently tested a formatting approach shared on https://www.wps.com that helped maintain structure during export without needing manual cleanup. Comment from Kevin Indig(@kevin_indig): Great work, team! Comment ... ... also representative of what user are actually asking ChatGPT. For example, if you see more ChatGPT-user agent visits on pages / blog posts pertaining to a particular feature e.g. integration capabilities, then you know to include prompts on this topic

... these are a bit of a slog, but it does pay off. Just do an hour of this a day, or one half day a week at first to keep consistent and not send yourself mad. Keep a spreadsheet of what day you messaged, what you messaged, their name, their email. And then you can keep tabs on it all. Comment from David Mason(@rankdeck): As a follow up. The travel booking site I mentioned in the last message ... ... weeks for the full lot, give or take a percentage. I think it comes down to whether the space is empty, or you're a trusted name for that particular grouping of entities/n-grams/queries etc. If they are organised into topically

... actionable way. so, I built a small MVP called Churnalysis to test the idea. The concept is simple: collect cancellation feedback in a structured way run short AI-powered exit interviews analyze patterns instead of reading random comments or spreadsheets Right now this is nearly-finished - I m not selling anything yet. I m trying to validate: whether this is a real problem for founders / SaaS teams what insights people actually want from churn data whether an API-first approach ... ... some learnings you've seen out there with how teams solve for churn? We built firstdistro.com - helps B2B companies predict customers looking to churn and quickly help teams prevent them. Would love to chat some more on this topic

... want to see next! Comment from Vincenzo Manto(@vincenzo_manto): @yatheen_brahma  Exactly. Port closures across continents is one of the top scenarios I ve been stress-testing in Datastripes. I'll post updates about this specific topic in the next weeks! Comment from TJ Dunham(@tj_dunham): The idea of correlating multiple shocks at once is exciting. Real life rarely throws one problem at a time, so being able to model combinations could lead to more realistic plans ... ... Marlon Van Wyhe(@marlon_van_wyhe): @vincenzo_manto  I'll take that...lol just trying to help a fellow solo dev. Comment from Jabari Zuri(@jabari_zuri): Black swan modeling is something I ve only ever done in spreadsheets

... this topic. I became an entrepreneur because I craved the freedom to chart my own path and bring my visions to life. With Garnet AI , I m building an AI-powered platform that automates compliance checks and document parsing, cutting vendor onboarding time in half and keeping revenue moving. I chose the hard way of startup life because I couldn t ignore the daily grind sales and compliance teams face with endless back-and-forth on spreadsheets

... people. Don't forget about it. Comment from Anh Ngo (Austin)(@ngohungtheanh): We turn your brain dump into a prioritized task calendar with reminders, automatically :) Comment from Nikita Polovinkin(@nikita_polovinkin): Purefeed helps to find relevant content for the topic of your interest on X, saving you hours of research time =) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @kaustubhkatdare  Once I wrote an article about platforms hosting communities, and even more. How do you attract users to switch from ... ... technology, we always focus on solving real problems not just building fancy dashboards. Our most powerful feature? The Real-Time Dispatch Board. It s the beating heart of our Carrier TMS Software Fast Forward TMS. Instead of juggling calls, spreadsheets

... With AI getting better at parsing spreadsheets, generating dashboards, and even spotting trends automatically, I keep wondering: Will AI replace data analysts or just transform their role into something new? What tasks are you already automating? Are there risks in removing too much human context from data work? Curious to hear how others are navigating this shift especially those building or using data-heavy tools. Comment from Supa Liu(@supa_l): @arvoantoni  That kind of self-serving behavior ... ... supa_l . I've read somewhere (maybe a book, can't remember..) that in the end humans always make their decisions based on emotions. That makes the human-AI collaboration in decision-making contexts quite an interesting and challenging topic

... then when it came out for instance. As the apps that come with your car get better the niche for my app will be customization and things like cost calculation. It seems to already be more attractive to spreadsheet nerd types then average car owners so i think i can lean into that. And yeah for Flexible i think i'll end up hunting it myself although i guess it's still better if someone else adds it. Thanks ... ... shipped Kithbook. It s an AI-powered rolodex that remembers who you met, when, and why automatically. Link: https://www.kithbook.com/ Comment from Arthur West(@c_arthur_west_iv): @jakecrump  Exactly, it categorizes them and them groups them by topic

... Head of Ops at Product Hunt, and I frequently get asked about the best Payroll, PEO, EOR, and HRIS solutions for distributed teams. I m active in multiple ops communities (LinkedIn, Slack, Circle), and discussions on this topic come up repeatedly but These conversations often get lost in the shuffle, leading to repeated threads. Many insights are locked behind paywalls or exclusive memberships. So, I m starting this open thread in our Product Hunt forums to centralize this discussion ... ... under one Roof There was a point several years ago when I was super frustrated managing our US and International employees on separate platforms. No good integrations for a central HRIS existed either so we just had lots of spreadsheets

... just use that over this, but I may have some features you would enjoy, like auto categorization of transactions. longer: I don't use spread sheets because I dont want to transcribe all of my transactions into a spreadsheet and my bank doesn't provide csv exports (just pdf's). When I built the original tool for myself, i just used it to generate a log of transactions from the PDFs and automatically categorize them (llm) really there is nothing ... ... definitely broken and somehow I hadn't noticed. Weird how you look at something every day and stop seeing it.... Comment from Uri Bram(@uri_bram1): @steveb  thanks, appreciate it! Let me add a line conveying possible topics

... more opening 17 browser tabs or piecing together solutions from five different answers from 2011. The Student Writing a Paper at 2 AM Jamie has 500 words of a 2,000-word paper due in six hours. The topic? The Socioeconomic Implications of Modernist Literature. Jamie hasn t read a single book on the syllabus. Select notes Double-tap Shift Help me develop this into a coherent argument with textual evidence Is it academic dishonesty? Maybe. Is it a lifesaver ... ... hitting your shortcut, and saying: Make a bar chart showing sales trends by region, use a blue-to-green gradient, and add a title that summarizes the key insight. And boom the chart appears, perfectly formatted, right in your spreadsheet

... this mindset, the rest is easy. Analyse your usage data and find the most active group of customers. Schedule calls and talk to them to learn their use cases. Put all the survey data into a spreadsheet and data will tell who needs your product most. Building actually useful features Now that you know who you want to build for, you have to start building useful features. This is where you need to sharpen your product management skills. Product management ... ... adoption will improve and result in increased product usage. Secondly, the net promoter score will increase as customers are getting more value out of it. We continuously measure our usage data and it is increasing. The total number of topic