We've been launching stuff on Product Hunt since last year, and like everyone else, I hit up old friends asking for support. You know how it goes.
Anyway, I met up with a few of them recently and they started thanking me. I'm sitting there thinking "aw that's sweet, they liked our product!"
But nope. They were thanking me for introducing them to Product Hunt itself. Apparently they've been addicted to it ever since, checking it daily for new AI tools.
I see this platform succeeding in moderating discussions and communities in general. When the platform succeeds, individuals succeed too (and vice versa).
I believe that everyone can make friends here and contribute to a strong, supportive community.
With improved generative models now being widely available, we re reaching a point where we can get full front-end code and simple functioning code for apps from a single prompt. What are the factors that determine whether development roles can be replaced by models? What s our added value as humans?
One of the biggest questions every early-stage founder faces today is: How do I launch my startup in this new era of AI-driven product development? It s so easy to build quickly now. Do I build first or validate first?
Personally, I ve seen hundreds of startups born in the past year. I m a grad student at MIT, and I created an AI accelerator for MIT and Harvard, so a lot of those startups have had amazing founding teams. I want to share some of the best practices I m seeing for getting products into market in an era where a lot of the old best practices seem to be shifting.
This month, we finally launched Clustr and couldn t be happier with the result. Our next step is to improve and develop it, with the help of your feedback.
Over the past couple of weeks, we launched CodeYam CLI & Memory on both Show HN and Product Hunt. A bunch of founder and maker friends reached out asking how it went, what worked, and what we d do differently, so I wrote up a more honest reflection than I usually see shared.
