which product you found here this year are you actually still opening?
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i try a lot of AI products and my honest hit rate is low. most of what i install is gone inside a week, and usually not because it was bad. it just never turned into a habit.
the few that stuck have almost nothing in common on paper. the only thread i can find is that they took away a step i was already doing, instead of adding a step i probably should be doing. the ones that asked me to build a new routine all died.
so: something you found on PH this year that you are genuinely still opening. what is it, and what did it replace?
interested in the boring ones too, not just the AI stuff. and if you are a maker, i would rather hear what you still use than what you built.
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Same here. I’ve downloaded so many "life changing" AI tools that I used exactly twice. The boring tools that quietly save me 10 minutes every day are the ones that survive.
The “what did it replace?” question is the interesting part. If the answer is "nothing , it just added another dashboard, " I already know how that story ends😂
The ones i still open are usually the products that quietly replaced one annoying step. if i have to remember to use it. its already in trouble.
I have abandoned plenty of impressive tools because they added another workflow instead of removing one. convenience wins eventually.
Honestly I would love to see a list of products people stopped using too. that might reveal more about retetion than success stories.
Promomix
The boring tools usually win for me. if something saves me 30 seconds every day without asking for attention i keep it
One of my favorite product hunt finds replaced a manual copy paste step. nothing revolutionary but that tiny shortcut became a daily habit.
I am much more likely to keep a tool that works in the background than one that expects me to build a new routine around it.
The products that stick usually become invisible. you stop thinking about the product and just notice that the old annoying task disappeared.
I would measure retention by habits removed not features used. the strongest products seem to make an old behavior unnecessary.