Hello Makers, I would love to know where you guys are at building your product. Let's see if we can help each other. I will start. I am close to finishing up my product. But I need to do testing. Where are you? EDIT:- You can checkout the launch here https://www.producthunt.com/post...
We re giving AI tools and other tech companies more and more data. And it s not just our names and email addresses.
Sometimes, it gets a little too personal:
Phone numbers. I hate getting SMS messages, especially since I only use my phone when absolutely necessary. (Family calls and important things related to doctors)
Product Hunt was created specifically to showcase what you do. But let s face it, with the progress of AI, there are more and more products and you don t have time to test them all (respect to @gabe , who does this job brilliantly).
I noticed that as my following grew throughout social media, more people contacted me wanting to test products. Of course, I don t have room for everyone, and what s even more shocking is that to get to me, they want to compensate me for testing.
I want to separate the mythology from the data here, because I keep hearing two contradictory things.
Version A: PH launches are a vanity metric now the upvotes don't convert, the badge is a participation trophy, and the real value is the backlink.
Version B: people still get their first 100 paying customers from a single good launch.
My situation: no audience, no list, product is B2B and costs $29/month. A launch would be my first real distribution moment. I'm trying to decide whether to spend six weeks building an audience first, or launch now and use PH as the audience-building event itself.
Well hello there! I'm Arvid Kahl, I'm a coder, an entrepreneur, and a writer. Over the last few years, I've been sharing my entrepreneurial journey through building in public and writing. I co-founded a SaaS business with my life partner Danielle Simpson back in 2017. We sold it for a life-changing amount of money just two years later as it had reached $55k MRR. Ever since then, I have been spending my days empowering other founders to find their own way to financial independence. My latest book The Embedded Entrepreneur is a guide to building a business the right way around: by focusing on your future audience from day one. I've been mentoring and teaching founders the audience-centric way to great success. I write, I read, I speak, I nap a lot, and I love engaging with founders. And now I'd like to talk to you! AMA
People often say that "the genie is already out of the bottle" and can't be put back in.
But the news that Anthropic made its latest model unavailable across Europe shows how control over technology, or the lack of ownership of it, can completely reshape the playing field.
We are increasingly connected to our phones which can make it difficult to fully unplug or be present at times. Once you wake up to start your day, how quickly do you reach for your phone to check your mentions, emails, etc?
