Starting out, I found that the best connections came from showing up consistently rather than trying to network with everyone at once.
Local meetups, hackathons, demo days, and online founder communities are useful, but only when you participate. Share what you are building, ask specific questions, offer help, and follow up with the people whose work genuinely interests you.
Every time I ask an agent to tweak a small utility function, it decides my packages are outdated and tries to migrate half my project to a new library or beta version .Next thing I know my build is broken and I'm spending an hour reverting package json changes. How do you lock down dependency changes in your agent rules?
The initial spark of an idea usually starts with a grand purpose and a wave of high motivation. However, over time, this process can turn into a cycle of professional and psychological exhaustion. As the project progresses, the idea hits walls relative to its purpose and fails to align with the real world. Sometimes, you have to give up right in the middle of building it; other times, as time passes and the idea keeps coming back to you, you begin to think it was just a nonsense idea in your mind all along. Watching a concept you once cherished slowly disintegrate like this is a process that pushes you to your psychological limits. As a founder or product leader, how do you prevent your mind from manipulating you with these ideas? When and how do you realize that an idea will actually work and that it isn't just a mental trap?
Last month I tried 5 AI based tools for different tasks. I kept 2 and dropped 3. The 2 I kept had the same pattern: they gave me suggestions but I made the final call. The AI didn't try to do everything, it did the boring part and I did the deciding part. The 3 I dropped either did too much automatically and got it wrong with no way to correct or did too little to be worth opening.
My read is that "human in the loop" isn't a feature it's a requirement. People say they want full automation but in practice they want control.
So for those who use AI tools daily: do you actually prefer full automation or do you want the tool to stop at "suggestion" and leave the decision to you? And the harder question: if a tool automated 100% of the task correctly every time, would you trust it or would you still check?
Okay, so I know everyone's feed has been taken over by the Studio Ghibli but I'm curious what else people have been able to create or seen that's really left an impression. Here are some that I've created! Also on X.
A few of my consulting clients have their teams using my products every day. So feedback shows up fast, and I usually get requests done the same day.
I've come to think the best thing you can do early on is get your heaviest user on your side. In my case the first heavy user was me, and the client teams came next.
How fast do you usually act on feedback from your users?
Between Slack channels, Teams groups, WhatsApp threads, and Telegram I feel like I'm in a constant catch-up loop and I still miss things. Curious if this is just us or if it's universal. What's your actual number, and have you found anything that helps?
I ve seen so much advice about partnering with well-known Hunters for your PH launch. But does it really move the needle? Anyone have real numbers or war stories? Also, how to find and approach them?
