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Nika

1mo ago

Will solo startups dominate the business landscape in the future?

Today, this graphic caught my attention:

It featured individuals who managed to build significant profit while running their businesses solo, without employees. Until now, I ve seen these more as exceptions rather than the norm.

CY

2mo ago

What makes you click into a Product Hunt launch?

There are so many launches on Product Hunt every day. How do you decide which ones are worth clicking into?

What s your #1 filter or shortcut?

Aleksandar Blazhev

1mo ago

What are your favorite business and startup podcasts?

I genuinely love listening to podcasts. It's one of the best ways I've found to stay on top of new trends, pick up strategies I wouldn't have discovered otherwise, and come across founders and operators I'd never stumble on through regular reading.

So I'm always on the lookout for new ones worth adding to the rotation.

Brad

4yr ago

Can you share what you're working on in 15 words or less?

I would love to know what you people are working on. Maybe I will find some excellent and exciting tools, SaaS, extensions, or productivity tools that I can share with my audience.
Nika

27d ago

Will we work for AI or will AI work for us?

  1. Y Combinator startup will pay humans to help AI agents when they get stuck. (This is what I read today.)

  2. At the same time, I see how Indian employees in production have cameras on their heads, and the AI learns from their movements (practically filming their firing process).

  3. In addition, there was already a site where AI agents hired human actions for stablecoins.

  • First, AI worked for us.

  • Now we are starting to work for AI.

  • And eventually, will AI work (without us)?

I don t want to portray a Terminator scenario where people will have to unite against AI, but what future awaits us in terms of cooperation/non-cooperation with AI?

Robat Das

1d ago

How are you handling LLM API costs in production? Billing alerts? Hard limits? Nothing?

Running agents in production is getting expensive fast especially when something loops, retries, or a user abuses the system. Curious what others are actually doing:

  • Relying on provider-side billing alerts?

  • Hard limits set on the OpenAI/Anthropic dashboard?

  • Custom solution you built yourself?

  • Nothing yet and just hoping for the best?

 

 I've been deep in this problem lately actually built something around it (launching tomorrow on PH). Would love to hear real approaches first though, especially from anyone running multi-tenant SaaS where you need per-user cost control.

Gabe Perez

2mo ago

Introducing Randomized Leaderboard Day on Product Hunt!

If you re launching today, the leaderboard is about to get a lot more interesting.

We are running a Randomized Day to give products launching more of an opportunity to get seen!

The Mechanics

To level the playing field, we are cycling the homepage layout throughout the day:
The Loop: This cycle repeats every 30 minutes, all day long.

Aaron O'Leary

6yr ago

Share your product here to get support, feedback, users (w/c 7 October)

Hi Makers! Are you launching soon? It's always nerve wracking coming up to launch day and some feedback can go a long way. Let's help each other out, after you provide feedback to a maker about their product share your product link for feedback. BE SPECIFIC about who your target audience is and how we can help. This thread is for you if you are: (1) launching soon or recently launched (2) looking for beta users (3) asking for feedback on a landing page Happy making
Nika

16d ago

What marketing strategies do you consider unethical, and which ones do you consider brilliant?

During today s standup meeting, an idea came up about improving our presence on Reddit (for LLM search visibility and similar reasons).

One of the suggestions was to look for high-karma accounts and possibly buy them to appear more credible when posting and mentioning the product within the posts/comments. It s a tactic, sure, but to me it already feels like it crosses an ethical line. I sometimes worry they can seriously damage a company s reputation.

Nika

5d ago

What’s the best use of AI you’ve seen so far?

Many of us use it for text generation, image generation, and making tasks fast.

That is something repetitive, and over one week or so, it is not so mindblowing anymore.