When I started my newsletter 2 years ago, I used Mailchimp I was familiar with it from previous projects because it offered fairly extensive analytics and testing. The problem was that the articles weren t public. Mailchimp is more suitable for business newsletters like sales offers, etc.

Monetization:

When I wanted to take the next step and monetise, I looked into Beehiiv. At that time, however, I wasn t in the mood to pay the costs without yet earning any revenue in my opinion, Beehiiv has the best monetisation model (subscriptions, ad revenue sharing, sponsorships, etc.). Considering costs...

Hey everyone,

Thinking about future-proofing my skills and I'm curious to hear from the pros in this community. We all have our core skills, but what's one skill that wasn't a big deal a few years ago but you now see as essential for your role in late 2025?

For Marketers: Is it data storytelling? AI prompt engineering?

For Designers: Is it prototyping with real data? Designing for AI?

1. Social impact
2. Diversity & inclusion
3. Creator economy
4. Children & family
5. Community & social

Product Hunt can give you a nice launch-day spike, but the real work starts after that. For founders and makers who have launched before, I m curious:

What channel or tactic worked better than you expected after your PH launch?

For example:

• Did a niche subreddit bring good users?

• Did a directory listing actually work?

• Did cold outreach help?

• Did a small giveaway bring signups?

• Did partnerships or community posts perform well?

A few days ago, I listened to a Czech video cast where the idea was that in a few years, the teaching position will lose its relevance.

This seems like a quite realistic prognosis to me, because:

• The teaching position is not particularly valued,

• AI knows more information than a teacher,

• AI does not sharply confront the user, which encourages people to ask questions and think critically (this can sometimes not be said about the school system)

• More and more young people prefer to communicate with Chatgpt than with an "educational authority"

We expected users to ask for more features.
Instead, they kept asking for fewer steps to complete the same task.
That changed the way we think about product development. Adding functionality isn t always progress. Sometimes removing friction creates much more value.
Has customer feedback ever completely changed the direction of your product?

I spent this week pushing one founder on a single claim in his launch copy, and by the end he had changed shipped text three times. Not because the claim was false. Because it was true of something narrower than the sentence said.

His tagline promised every file was cryptographically signed for verifiable provenance. True at the moment the file was made. Not true after anyone trims it in another tool, which is what happens to almost every file before a human sees it. The honest version of that sentence already existed on his site. It was in the footer.

Then the description said a free tier was available, while the product served me a waitlist, because it had opened in one region only.

Neither of those is a lie. Both are things a visitor can catch in under a minute, and the person most likely to check is the person you most wanted to convince.

Hey folks,

just saw that there is a petition going on by the big frontier model companies, asking the US government to develop technical and governance tools to pace the AI development.

When I started building AURELIA, I thought complexity came from writing more code.

Now I think it comes from something else.

Every time we add a new feature, we also add a new decision.

After months (or years), those decisions become scattered across files, databases, APIs, and people s memory.