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This could be related to your industry, or even a side project you're working on.

Here are my 5 (I couldn't function without them):

1. Grammarly proofreading my texts, not just posts, but also client communication

2. ChatGPT / Claude mostly brainstorming, help with copy, and summarising

3. Figma I can put the basic graphics together quickly.

4. Translator sounds incredibly old-school, but English is not my mother tongue

5. Gmail and not only for communication, but also for storing ideas and sending myself email reminders for posts

Because building products has become much more accessible thanks to AI, the bar has had to rise a bit, or at least the expectations have become stricter.

I built my own tool, but personally, I wouldn t launch it on Product Hunt yet because it s still very basic and doesn t even have a website.

Two months ago I asked here how people stay aware of what their agents are doing, and @getosmo replied with something that has been quietly rearranging my roadmap since.

I had been treating "can you undo it" as the line for when an agent should stop and ask. He took that apart. Irreversibility over-fires and under-fires, he said. It over-fires on things that cannot be undone but that nobody cares about, like the agent writing a log line. It under-fires on the ones that really hurt: a mass email to 50k users, or a migration you can only roll back after downtime. "Reversible on paper, ruinous in practice."

The digital nomad dream...
Beautiful views, new countries, and the freedom to work from anywhere! Sound amazing.

But deep work often needs the opposite: routines, consistency, and fewer distractions...

For me the biggest productivity hack isn t changing my location - it s creating the right environment to focus.

Travel can bring inspiration and fresh ideas, but building something meaningful often requires a place where you can truly concentrate.
Would love to hear your experience:
Do you build better while traveling, or do you need a stable environment to do your best work?

In the month that I've been here, I've been noticing a pattern in a lot of launches - strong demos, polished UI, clear outputs of "what it does."

But when I ask myself "What problem does this solve?" I sometimes have to dig for the answer. (I come by that thinking honestly - I've spent 33 years building and fixing businesses, so this is the lens I can't turn off.)

Hey everyone!

Coming off our launch last week, we spent some time digging into our analytics for SoundGate and one metric really stood out: our onboarding drop-off rate is sitting at less than 1%.

When we originally sat down to design that first user interaction, we spent a massive amount of time debating and refining the experience. It is incredibly tempting to use onboarding as a data-gathering exercise, but we set a few strict rules for ourselves to prevent that:

• Zero Fluff: We audited every single step. If a question didn't directly improve the user's immediate experience in the app, we cut it.

• UX > Marketing: We had tough conversations about what data helps marketing versus what the user actually needs to get started. We kept the focus entirely on the user's momentum.

• Vibe is a Feature: We didn't just want a functional flow. We wanted to show off the musicality and tone of the app from the very first tap. Onboarding shouldn't feel like filling out a tax form - it should feel like the opening track of a great album.

I've always struggled with promoting my own work. It always felt a little awkward because I grew up in an environment where drawing attention to yourself wasn't really encouraged.

That's not exactly ideal when you're trying to build a business, and even less so when marketing is literally how you make a living. :D

SEO was about being found on Google.

Now AI is becoming the new discovery layer.

For those thinking about GEO...

What s the biggest change you ve made so far?

We always think we'll take Saturday off...

Then we remember:

users don't stop using the product
ideas don't stop coming
launches don't wait
neither do bugs

Curious how everyone else handles it.

I really like seeing how many enthusiastic male founders are here, but sometimes I find myself looking for more female founders and their stories.

I ve personally faced some of the stereotypes around this that women are usually more cautious, don t take as many risks (including business risks), and that the ideal path is to have a stable job and follow a more traditional way.

Not your biggest achievement.

Your biggest bottleneck.

Is it...
Finding users?
Retention?
Distribution?
Pricing?
Building fast enough?

Curious to see what most founders/Builders are struggling with today.

Same effort every time, same comment, just a different thread each time. The spread came entirely from which thread I picked, not from anything I changed about what I wrote.

That has changed how I think about distribution. It stopped being a channel decision and became a research step before I write anything: how fresh the thread is, how many replies it already has, whether the person asking is actually going to read what comes back.

When you're a first-time founder/maker, and you're the only person using your own product, you probably overlook important things. That's why you need to test the product with as many people as possible.

The problem is that time is limited. You have to decide not only how many people will test it, but also who those people should be.

Most people use Product Hunt primarily for launching their product, which is completely understandable and a basic thing. That's what the platform is best known for.

BUT I think Product Hunt offers far more opportunities than just launch day. If you approach it strategically, it can become an ongoing marketing channel rather than a one-day event.

A platform ( canivibecodeit) recently went viral on X for showing which paid tools you could realistically rebuild yourself.

Design tools, ChatGPT, or Claude are obviously hard to replace. But invoice tools, forms, simple CMSs, or dictation apps seem much more realistic.

Besides making sure your discussion follows the community guidelines, you can approach Product Hunt discussions more strategically and use them to increase your visibility for your personal brand and your product.

A lot of people struggle with their discussions being rejected.
This usually happens to accounts that don t have much interaction history yet.

If I wanted to become more active in Product Hunt discussions, I would try the following:

Building a team or want to join a startup?

Founders, teams, and startups drop a comment if you're hiring.

I probably spend more than 10 hours a day at my computer and I know it s not ideal. It is actually bad.

It has quite a few negative effects on our eyes, posture, stress levels, and overall well-being.

After creating an account on Product Hunt, opening it slowly became a daily habit for me.
Checking new products, reading discussions, discovering what others are building...
One day I noticed there s a day streak feature I didn t even know about and honestly was surprised =D
After launching RunEvr, opening Product Hunt became even more exciting - now we're not only discovering products, but also watching our own journey and growth here.
Curious: what makes you the most come back to Product Hunt every day?
Is it:
discovering new products?
joining discussions?
supporting makers?
following trends?
Something else?

In this time when we use LLM's for basically anything, what AI agents/tools would you want that you would actually pay for?
What are you spending a lot of money on and would probably save a lot of you time if you got the Agent out of box, or if configuration was much easier?

Everyone perceives entrepreneurship completely differently, and the weight of certain challenges varies from case to case. You always see things differently depending on the stage of life and business you're in, because your position is different each time.

• When I was a teenager my biggest problem was "What will people think of me when I will start doing this?"

• In my early twenties my biggest problem was "What if I can't figure out accounting, taxes, legal stuff?"

• Now I have a different problem how do I scale something?

A day ago, I was talking to a friend about logo design.

TL;DR: how the Apple logo came to be and how it wasn t always the bitten apple we know today.

The first concept was actually Newton sitting under a tree.

you want your AI agent to work without friction. you also want your platform to be secure. but here's the thing, those two goals are in direct conflict the moment a non-human actor shows up at your door.

most platforms weren't designed with agents in mind. so when an agent tries to access something, it either borrows a human's credentials which gives it too much, or gets blocked entirely which defeats the purpose.

octoscope 0.27.0 the integrity scan stops describing a repo and starts noticing things about it.

Before this release the supply-chain scan could only talk in the present tense: here is what auto-executes right now, here is a commit tip that looks forged. Useful if you happen to scan while the implant is sitting there. Useless for the two questions you actually have when a worm is circulating did something change, and what could whoever got in reach?

Shipping @Ctruh Studio and becoming @Product Hunt #2 Product of the Day taught us a lot.

Looking back, there's always one decision you'd make sooner.

What's yours?