Hi everyone We had some good momentum and amazing customer support during our PH launch. Now I m exploring how to keep that momentum going and actually build a community here (instead of defaulting to Slack or Discord). How do you move beyond just initial discovery and engagement?
Has anyone tried using Product Hunt itself as the community hub for your product? Any tips on how to approach this?
I ve found this community very vibrant and helpful, especially if your ICP is early stage founders and builders. I d love to learn how others have deepened that connection and grown their community right here.
I have been in the blockchain/crypto industry for 5 years now. Both as an investor and as a developer. I have launched many products on ETH, Polygon & Cardano network.
This thread though is more about the investor side of things. How are you folks dealing with the volatility of this particular cycle? The uncertainty from the politics and regulations that are coming from US side? Feels like the business market cycle will never play out right?
There's a pattern I keep noticing: the AI tools that actually get traction on PH aren't the swiss-army-knife platforms. They're the ones that nail one specific workflow end-to-end.
Been working on a few launches recently and this keeps proving true. What's the most focused AI tool you've come across lately?
Microsoft is reportedly working on making Copilot more emotionally intelligent, designed to check in on users and behave more like a therapist to resonate with Gen Z.
I ve been chatting with other early stage builders and one theme keeps popping up is that there s so much important but not core work that needs doing (things like ops, research, content, or lead gen) and it all adds up fast when you re solo.
And hiring help early on isn t always possible (budget, trust, speed), trying to do it all yourself can be draining and distracting from core product work.
Curious how others are navigating this phase:
Are you using freelancers? Automation tools? Just doing less?
A Fortune piece from late last year had the CEOs of Apple, Airbnb, and PepsiCo all agreeing on something that surprised me: being at the top is one of the loneliest places to be.
That resonated. But I think it starts way before you reach Fortune 500 CEO. It starts the moment you go all in on your own thing.
We see several new tools launching every week, and many do a great job at telling us whaere our sites stand in the AI search tools like chatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, etc. The best of them give us... WORK TO DO Yes, they are good at telling us what to fix, what to build, where to publish, what's missing, right - because we don7t already have enough to do...? I genuinely want to know if I'm wrong, but I know of nothing but MentionFox.com that actually trains the LLMs to actively promote our products over competitors' offerings. Do you? Please do share in the comments. Yes, we are prepared to prove it.
