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2d ago

5 pivots -> 3 days in and 14 paying customers. I need your help.

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.

1yr ago

There's something new on PH. Have you had time to try it?

I feel like Product Hunt is getting that Reddit vibe when it comes to Forums.
After waking up, the new "formatting structure" surprised me.
There are 2 main changes:

1) New text editor for New thread

2) New text editor when contributing comments

10d ago

Do you think you’re an exception, or is every developer’s day this chaotic?

I keep telling myself, Tomorrow I ll finally get uninterrupted focus time.

Tomorrow arrives

and it s another day of PRs, bugs, meetings, helping teammates, and context switching.

Is this just me, or is this the default experience for most software engineers?

10d ago

The Hidden Engineering Behind Great Products

Today I finished one of the least visible, but most important parts of my AI engineering workspace project.

Command Guard

9d ago

What transparency should users expect from personal safety apps?

Trust is especially important when an app can access location, motion sensors or emergency contacts.

However, transparency is not always as simple as publishing everything. Sharing source code and data flows can help independent review, while exposing detailed detection logic or security controls could also make a safety system easier to bypass.

Which information would actually help you decide whether to trust a personal safety app?

Would you look for a clear privacy model, permission explanations, selected public source code, independent security reviews, data-retention controls, or something else?

1yr ago

Attending meetups and conferences – does it help with sales?

I ve attended a few conferences and meetups over the past two years always for a different purpose. Sometimes it was just 1. to socialise , other times 2. to interview guests, 3. find PR or 4. sell products. I have to say that the last item on this list was the least fulfilling we recruited a few trial users, but there were minimal paying customers. How do you approach similar events? What positive results have you seen from it? [If you have any recommendations for meetups or conferences where people are more open to buying a product, I d be grateful if you could share them.]
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