I assume I'm not the only one dealing with this problem, so I'll seek advice from those more experienced and perhaps those who have a proven track record.
Whenever a user reaches the payment gateway, they often suddenly leave, either by uninstalling the app or closing the page.
When you live inside your own product every single day, you forget what it's like to see it with fresh eyes. Every button, label, and navigation menu feels completely obvious to you.
Then we watched session recordings of our first few real signups. It was painful. Users were getting completely stuck on things we assumed were intuitive, dropping off before they even touched our primary feature.
For builders and indie hackers: what methods or tools finally opened your eyes to your own onboarding blind spots?
I am attempting to observe what you use for coding. I have come across many tools on Product Hunt + Web, but I am fairly certain I have missed quite a bit. I divided them into "traditional" and "specialised".
I know that many of us are working on side projects but I also see a lot of folks building full fledged companies. And a number of those companies are likely going after venture capital. If you're considering or actively pursuing Angel funding, I'm really curious as to how much capital a single Angel needs to provide in order to have a definitive and beneficial impact on the trajectory of your company. Thanks in advance for your insight and thoughts!
We re preparing for our upcoming launch on Product Hunt and planning to include a short video introducing our product. We re debating between two approaches and would love your input:
There s a common assumption that job applications are mobile-first now. Before moving into building a mobile app, we wanted to test that assumption with data rather than rely on intuition..
First, we looked at real usage. In our GA4 data, mobile accounts for ~22% of active users. But desktop dominates engagement and core actions, longer sessions, more events, and more consistent usage over time.
I don't want to rant here (but I probably will a bit)...
I've been working in product growth for a while, and I feel like every single product roadmap right now has just turned into a race to bolt on an "AI assistant" or a "generate with AI" button. It s like every investor and every competitor is screaming that you need it, so everyone just slaps a chat interface onto their app and calls it innovation.
But when everyone has the exact same AI feature, it stops being a differentiator and just becomes a checkbox. It feels like we're spending all our time building generic AI wrappers instead of actually solving the user's core problem.
So, how do you actually figure out where AI belongs in your product without just following the hype?
I've been thinking quite a bit about privacy while working on a software platform.
Most platforms make it easy to search for people and connect with them. But should that really be the default?
We're exploring an approach where users decide whether their profile can be found or stays private. Connections would also require an invitation rather than just clicking a button.
