The one tool I wish I had during our launch
Three weeks ago I posted a list of things I learned on launch day. I left one off, because I only noticed it after the dust settled.
Almost every good thing that happened to Construct came through someone we already knew.
Not cold DMs. Those mostly went nowhere. It was a friend of a friend of a friend, and the ask worked because the person in the middle could say "yeah, I know them, they're legit."
We hit #1 on Product Hunt, then our infra nearly gave out, here's what we learnt and upgraded.
A couple of weeks ago, I remember stressing over the launch with my cofounder because one random fine day I told him, "btw... I scheduled a launch for 23rd next week" and we were not at all prepared for what was about to come <insert hysterical laughter>
We had the month watching other launches and trying to figure out they did different to get a top launch, visiting product hunt every day and studying the launches, who the makers were, what their product did, their positioning, creatives and more.
Things I learned on launch day, ranked by how little I saw them coming
Me and @nischal_naik refreshed our leaderboard page more times than we got upvotes, I hope we were not the only ones
Nobody asks the question you come prepared for, instead they will ask the most obscure things you might have not even though they could ask, and thats a GOOD thing!! It means more people are have a different POV about your product and will also make you think from the different POV to answer those.
The upvote spammers found me before my own users did, within hours of launching, all our dms got spammed by scammers trying to selling me upvotes and "we will get you to top 3 rank" little do they know our organic support is far better than their botnet
Its incredible how just a week of planning can give you the best results. Although we have been building Construct for 6+ months, we only recently decided to launch it here, just to put ourselves out there, we simply wanted to launch irrespective of whatever rank we get, but here we are competing for product of the day, incredible! :)
Before the day closes, we genuinely appreciation everyone who supported us.
@ruffledzest is the reason this launch looked like anything at all. Every visual, every asset, the whole aesthetic of the page and the product itself, that's him. People decide whether to click in about two seconds and he's the one who won those two seconds for us, over and over. Genuine MVP of the day and it isn't even close.
Construct Computer - Your AI coworker gets a computer. You get your day back.
Drop the task you hate doing and I'll tell you if AI can actually do it yet.
We launch Construct tomorrow, but I don't want to spend today posting another product pitch.
Instead, give me one annoying task from your work.
The recurring thing that quietly eats 2-3 hours every week, like lead research, updating the CRM, chasing invoices, support triage, weekly reports, copying data between five different tools, whatever.
Construct in one paragraph
Construct gives startups and small teams an AI workforce that actually does the work.
The constraint for solo founders and lean teams is never ideas - it s hours. We close that gap by giving AI coworkers a real computer instead of a chat window, so the work gets finished while you re doing more important things.
Everything you need to know about Construct [Megathread]
Short version: Construct gives your AI coworkers a real computer instead of a chat window.
Every agent gets its own browser-based cloud desktop - browser, terminal, files, email, calendar, and memory that persists across sessions. You hand it work, close your laptop, and it keeps going, because it runs on the cloud, not on your machine. Open the screen from any device to watch it work, take the controls back, or nudge it in a different direction.
