I am a founder or co-founder of various start-ups, and I am hoping we can make this an informative thread of people sharing their valuable experiences. I will go first. As weird as it sounds I think it is really important you try to have fun! Start-ups are a tough process where you constantly feel under pressure, it is easy to get overwhelmed and burnt out. Trying to keep a positive frame of mind and trying your best to enjoy the journey help keep you mentally in check and on track!
Today, I read in Techcrunch that India has an ambition to "compete" with the US and China in the startup scene:
India has updated its startup rules to better support deep tech companies in sectors like space, semiconductors, and biotech, which take longer to mature.
I build my product with AI coding agents every day, and I keep a file of rules for them. Some rules are in capital letters now because I had to repeat them.
One rule was "never push to main until the tests pass." An agent pushed anyway, and we had to roll it back.
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One workflow in my app can take about a minute on the first run because it reads several pages before producing a report. The work is happening, but a spinner makes it feel frozen.
I added clear progress stages and cached repeat runs. That helped, but the first run is still slow.
If your product has a long-running AI or research task, what helped users feel comfortable waiting? Did clearer progress make a difference, or did you have to redesign the task?
Hey hunters, My Product Video Explorer is going to launch on Friday, and it's just around the corner. https://www.producthunt.com/prod... I'm a bit nervous about it and wondering what I should do to prepare in the last few hours. Do you have any suggestions?
HEAR THIS - A few days ago, I was coding some stuff on my desk, and then as usual, I went on Youtube :P I was getting a brain fog from all the random stuff there, lol, but then I came across this nerdy dude from Europe with a psychedelic tshirt on, saying he got story telling figured out. I was like, FINALLY im gonna be able to get potential users to engage with my stuff. I took a coffee sip, ate my peanut butter and started watching the video. I need to admit...the things that guy said, and the examples he gave got me HOOKED.
In our meetings, we usually keep debating about what features to add to our product. But honestly, we need to be able to say NO to that.
Building became even easier with AI, so it is tempting to add a ton of features. The cost is how complex your app becomes. This is why products get messy fast. Usually it looks fine for old users, because they learned each feature slowly while you built it. But new users open the app and feel lost.
@busmark_w_nika asked yesterday what PH is missing and what people would improve. I am sure the team has enough to cook with now. So I want to ask the opposite:
What should Product Hunt kill? What feature would the product be better without?
What did you say NO to in your own product?
What feature would you remove from a big product you use?
