As a graphic designer, I look at products from two angles: how they look, and whether they make me understand why they exist before I lose patience.
A beautiful hero image catches attention. But that alone has never convinced me to stay.
Going through 50+ landing pages recently, I noticed a pattern in the ones that actually earned my trust:
The ones that worked answered "what does this do?" before I scrolled. Not with a tagline, but with a plain sentence a non-technical person could repeat. The value prop wasn't clever. It named a problem I already felt, not a feature I had to imagine needing. The next step didn't feel like a commitment. One page I almost left had a single button that said "See how it works", no email required. I stayed.
Being a founder/builder is a lot of work and can take its toll on your health. What's your strategy for staying healthy? I'm a walker and can easily crank out 15+ miles a week, eat only plants and hit the gym 3-5x a week. What's yours?
I ve spent five years on the sales side of B2B, so I know how outbound works when there s a team, a brand and a budget behind it. What I don t know is how it works when it s just a founder with a half-finished product and no name yet.
The advice I keep running into is do things that don t scale and talk to every user. That s fine, but it doesn t tell me what people actually did on a Tuesday morning.
For those of you who ve landed your first customers:
-Where did the first 3 to 5 come from? A cold email, a DM, a community like this one, someone you already knew?
Every launch I see is about agents, orchestration, reasoning chains, autonomous workflows, then I open my own chat history w/ claude and it s all about chores (task support), and almost nothing regards agentic workflows. it is mostly small text chores I could describe in one sentence.
I don t think that s a failure of imagination on my part, and I don t think I m unusual. People (including I) use HUUGE models to do irrelevant tasks, that's like asking stephen hawking to sort out your monthly expenses' PDF.
I've tried using tools that automatically take notes during my Zoom/Google Meet calls, but none of them have stuck. A full transcription is overkill and summaries often miss the most important points. Additional context: Most of my calls are fundraising-related conversations with founders. I would prefer NOT to have a "bot" join a call and ideally the notes could automatically be shared in a specific Slack channel with my team. I'm curious what tools people are using and for what use cases. I'd appreciate any recommendations. :)
I recently got really excited about an idea and started working on it, only to realise that it's already been done. Quite a few times, actually.
Sure, there are always ways to differentiate, find a niche, or approach the problem differently. But it got me thinking: At what point do you decide a market is too saturated to enter?
