So as you have already guessed I have a husky. It loves to add some horror movie vibes to my video calls by singing songs of his people. I occasionally see my colleagues' pets during calls, which triggers different reactions of the meeting members ranging from "oooh" to "oh". What's your take on this?
I m restyling a live app screen by screen, with Claude Code doing the edits. My test suite has 262 tests and all of them pass, but none of them check how a page looks. So a change to shared styles could break a screen and nothing would tell me.
Before each change, I have the agent screenshot every screen I m not supposed to touch, using a fake signed-in session and mocked API responses so no real data is involved. After the change, it captures them again and compares them pixel by pixel. Anything that differs has to be explained.
That caught something I would never have seen. 34 screens matched exactly. One modal didn t: 1,334 of about 215,000 pixels were different. To my eye, before and after looked identical. The cause was that my first version moved the page into a new wrapper, and the old container had been quietly centering the modal s heading. The new one didn t. No test would have complained.
It also showed that a modal kept outside the new wrapper still changed colour, because my theme variables are set on the whole page, not just the wrapper. I had to re-scope the old colours around the modal.
Okay, small confession. For the last few months I've been "busy" all day but somehow shipping almost nothing. Tabs open everywhere, jumping between Slack, notes, half-written docs and by 6pm I couldn't tell you what I actually finished.
Last week I stripped everything back to three things: one notes app, a timer, and physically closing Slack for 90 min blocks. First time in ages I actually felt like I made progress instead of just looking productive.
But I know I'm probably still doing this wrong. :)
So I'm curious what's the one habit or tool that genuinely keeps YOU focused?
In December, the Product Hunt team shifts gears to focus on planning for next year, our hackathon, and some much-needed rest and relaxation. We hope that you are also able to give yourself a break. Whether that means spending time with friends and family or making space for an interesting side project, you deserve to step away from the normal routine towards something more fun. With the holidays to look forward to as we near 2022, here s a roundup of features we debuted this week. - More ways to search. Product Hunt is more than the latest products and now our search reflects that. We added search fields to discussions
In our first six months, whenever a paid user churned, our immediate reaction was: Ah, they needed Feature X. Let s build it."
Our backlog became a graveyard of quick fixes requested by churned users. Yet, retention stayed flat.
It took us a painful realization to see that the issue wasn t a feature gap; it was a friction gap. The product required too many context switches from our users' daily routines.
For founders who survived this phase: How did you shift your team's mindset from "ship more features" to "reduce workflow friction"? What metrics actually helped you spot this early?
I've used ChatGPT and other AI tools while building my startup, and they've made it possible to take on work that would normally require a much larger team. Research, technical problem-solving, planning, and exploring new ideas can happen much faster. But one thing I've learned is that completing more work doesn't necessarily mean the business is moving forward at the same speed. You can build faster, solve technical problems faster, and make improvements faster, while the harder questions about customers, adoption, and business growth still take time to answer. It's changed how I think about productivity as a founder. I'm learning to distinguish between how much work gets completed and whether that work is actually moving the business forward.
For founders building with AI, what's one lesson you've learned about the difference between moving faster and making real business progress?
