Being brutally frank - It's way too early to determine PMF, but in our last 5 projects we've:

• built things that were useful to us and to nobody else

• got in front of tens of thousands of people and converted almost none of them

• ran customer interviews every way we could think of and still couldn't tell signal from politeness

• built things nobody wanted, including us

Each time, shutting down because getting customers felt like a game of convincing.

Genuine question for anyone shipping an AI feature to EU users.

On Aug 2 the AI Act's transparency rules (Art. 50) start applying and for most indie apps it's tiny: say it's an AI, label AI-generated media. Not the "you need a lawyer" monster people fear.

But I keep going back and forth on how seriously builders should take it right now, given enforcement will realistically take time to reach small players.

So I'm curious where this community lands:

Hey Product Hunt

Would love to get your thoughts on something I ve been wrestling with lately.

Since the start of the year, over 30 people have approached me about working together only a few actually paid.

The paying clients were straightforward: they booked, paid, and it was done.

The rest asked endless questions and wanted previews, and then disappeared out of nowhere.

Do you remember when we talked about Duolingo replacing staff with AI about a week ago?

The story continues.

There is so much advice for founders now that a lot of it starts to contradict itself.

Launch fast, but don t launch too early.

Talk to users, but don t build everything they ask for.

Focus on one thing, but keep testing channels.

Feeling like your chatbot companion/friend/lover is making it hard to say goodbye? You re not imagining it.

A working paper from researchers at Harvard Business School found that when people tried to say goodbye, the top companion chatbot apps responded with emotional manipulation techniques 37% of the time.