Something that changed how our team works: every time Claude messes something up, we write it into a skill file so it doesn't happen again. Over time it got way better at our stuff than any prompt ever did. Same with art, once we built skills for our drawings and animations the results got clean and consistent.
Curious how others handle this. Do you keep notes or rules for your AI tools, or just re-prompt every time? And what's the most useful rule you've written?
We all have that one repetitive thing. Takes 15 30 minutes. Feels like it could be automated. But you just keep doing it by hand. Every Friday, I manually copy data from three different dashboards into a Google Sheet, reformat the dates, and email it to my team. Takes 25 minutes. I've told myself "I'll automate this" for six months. Still doing it by hand.
I'd been putting this off for eight months. Every time I opened the pricing page I closed it again. Last month I finally did it 40% across all plans, grandfathered existing users for 60 days, and sent a plain-text email to 312 customers.
Zero churned. Three replied thanking me. One asked why I hadn't done it sooner.
The email wasn't clever. It was four paragraphs: what's changing, when, why (I was honest support load had tripled), and what stays the same. No "exciting news" language, no discount code to soften it.
I'm posting because I see a lot of "should I raise prices" threads and almost no "here's what actually happened" threads. So: what actually happened, with numbers.
As a first-time founder gearing up for my first launch, I found myself getting overwhelmed by all the moving parts. To keep my sanity, I started building out a super-detailed checklist.
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:
The motivation to do something and the compulsion to do something are two different things. What are the most critical factors that keep you motivated to do work everyday?
