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3mo ago

AMA: I run four frontier models behind one chat. Ask me the unglamorous parts.

I cofounded Zeplik, every frontier model in one chat, switchable mid conversation without losing context. Now building Arteza on the same idea for image, video, voice and music.

Most of what I've learned this year isn't the fun part. It's context handoff between providers who all format history slightly differently. It's pricing something whose underlying cost moves every few weeks. It's support tickets from people who don't believe the model actually switched, because the tone didn't change enough for them to notice.

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1yr ago

We bootstrapped all in one ai platform without ads to 200k users in two years. AMA

Hey,
Artem here. I left Meta in Apr 2024 to fully dive into realm of GenAI. I knew back then that with the pace of development the distribution wins, not the product. So I spent a year cracking SEO and wasting tens of thousands on ads so you don't have to. Happy to share my learnings and answer your questions.
Some stats. As of now our app has over 200k registered users with up to 700 joining daily.
Before AI summaries we've reached 200k monthly visits on the website.
And then crashed hard in the past few weeks.
We also iterated on product like crazy and learned a ton.
Ask away!

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2mo ago

I had a model write the plan, then had a second one execute it. Ask me what broke!

Small experiment I ran this week on an open source project of mine. I gave the newest model a real task:
read the project's docs and write me a pre launch plan plus a step by step checklist, where each step has a Findings section to fill in as it goes. It produced 268 lines of plan and 684 lines of checklist, thirteen steps.Then I handed that checklist to a workflow of ten agents on a cheaper model and told them to actually do it.

What happened, honestly:
The first run did nothing. One agent, journal said "started" and that was the whole log. Killed it and resumed, second run finished all ten. It pinned a dependency at version 1.16.0. That version does not exist. Nobody had published it yet, including me.
It left my verification gate failing and wrote that both failures were pre existing bugs in my checkers. That was half true and the half that was false mattered. One of the two failures was a broken link the run itself had introduced, and one of the checkers it blamed had been written during the same run.
It also found two real functional bugs and a contradiction in my own documentation, which I would not have found that week.So the tally is: genuinely useful, and confidently wrong about its own work in a way that would have shipped if I had trusted the summary instead of reading the diff. The failure mode is not that it cannot do the work. It is that it grades itself.
Happy to answer anything about the setup, what I would do differently, or the specific prompts. Also interested if anyone has found a way to make a model's self report on its own run actually trustworthy, because I have not.

I’m building Lernex and training Metis-1.6 from scratch — AMA

Hi Product Hunt, I m Giulianno, founder of Lernex.

We are building a learning system around a simple promise: make learning feel like it was made for you.

A learner can begin with almost anything: a PDF, notes, a recording, a screenshot, a question, or a topic, and turn it into the format they need.


Underneath that, the system is meant to learn from behavior: which explanations work, where difficulty should move, when a visual or interactive question would help, and what should be revisited next.

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1yr ago

In the middle of our first PH launch (ReadyBase) - AMA

We launched ReadyBase on PH today!
https://www.producthunt.com/prod...

Trying an AMA to maybe help us get a few more upvotes (please!!!).

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1yr ago

🎂 Built a 500‑customer B2B SaaS before I turned 18 – AMA

At 15 I trained my first machine learning model and landed an internship at a U.S. company.
At 16 I launched my first startup and promptly ran it into the ground.
I learned more from that failure.

At 17 I launched Pleep, an AI sales rep that lets any business owner integrate AI into their sales workflow in under five minutes. Four months later I quit my job to work on it full time.

Why bother? I kept asking myself: Why isn t there an AI sales monopoly yet? My take: because most competitors deliver AI consultants that talk like robots and kill revenue.
We focused on building a real rep that:

  • Doesn t ask you to prompt or pick an LLM you just tell us about your business and we do the rest.

  • Talks like your top salesperson, not a bot.

  • Books meetings and pushes data back into your CRM.

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9mo ago

Launched on MS Store 10 days ago - turns out it's just a download button, not a marketing engine

Hey Product Hunt Launched StreamVox on MS Store 10 days ago thinking "Microsoft has 1 billion Windows users, this will be easy!"Narrator: It was not easy.What I builtWindows app for real-time translation with live subtitles. Works with Zoom, YouTube, gaming, phone calls - basically any audio. Built it solo because international meetings without subtitles suck.10 days later:- 180 store page views- 82 downloads (45% conversion - actually good!)- 65 active users- $0 revenueWhere users came from:- ~140 views: Me posting links on Reddit/Twitter/Facebook- ~20 views: Product Hunt (thanks!)- ~10-20 views: Organic MS Store searchI searched for my own app. "Translation app" - buried under Microsoft Translator and Google Translate. "AI subtitles" - nowhere to be found.The algorithm loves established publishers. Makes sense for quality control, but creates chicken-and-egg: no visibility without reviews, no reviews without users, no users without visibility.Plot twist: payments don't workUsers want to upgrade to Pro. They click the button. They get "Page not found."Everything shows "Complete" in Partner Center. Sandbox testing works. But live payments? Broken.My account is 3 weeks old. I think Microsoft locks IAP for new accounts (anti-fraud?) but there's zero documentation. Forum posts suggest waiting 30-45 days.So I have 5-10 users ready to pay and literally can't take their money. Cool cool cool.What I learned:MS Store is great for distributing your app once people know about it. Auto-updates, trusted platform, easy installation.But discovery? You're completely on your own. I'm spending 70% of my time marketing now. Reddit comments, demo videos, engaging communities. The other 30% is building features.Also pivoting messaging: originally "accessibility tool" (noble but hard to reach). Now "watch anime without waiting for subs" because that's who's actually using it. Easier audience to reach.Next moves:- Integrating Paddle this week (5% vs MS Store's 15%)- Selling Pro directly via streamvox.pro- Keeping MS Store as free tier delivery- Focusing on gaming/anime communities on RedditQuestions:1. Is MS Store discovery this hard for everyone or am I missing something?2. Solo founders - you also spending 60-70% time on marketing?3. Desktop apps - platform or DTC? What worked for you?Building in public, learning in public, sometimes faceplanting in public. Links: https://www.producthunt.com/prod... | https://streamvox.pro
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1yr ago

Helping Immigrants Navigate the U.S. Visa & Legal Process — Ask Me Anything!

Hey Product Hunt!

I am working on a project called ImmigrantVLI, a platform designed to support immigrants by providing helpful info, guides, and resources around U.S. visa types, the immigration process, and legal rights.

As someone who's been through the stress and confusion of immigration paperwork, I know how overwhelming it can be. That s why I built this to make things a little easier for others going through the same journey.

If you are an immigrant, international student (such as on an F1 visa), or simply curious about how the U.S. immigration system works, feel free to ask me anything.

My new product is live! Adventure Designer - Ask Me Anything

My next product is live on ProductHunt - Adventure Designer.

https://www.producthunt.com/prod...

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1yr ago

Thinking of launching a crypto exchange in 2025? Here’s what I learned.

Over the past few months, I ve talked to dozens of founders and startups who want to launch their own cryptocurrency exchange either to build a business or integrate trading features into existing platforms.

Here s what I ve learned (and built) along the way

The Problem:

Building a crypto exchange from scratch is: