I'm asking because I don't have mine yet, so I have nothing to trade here except the question.
Every version of this story I read online is clean. Wrote a post, got a signup, closed a deal. The ones I hear in person are much messier and usually involve someone the founder already knew.
So which was yours? And the part I'm actually curious about, did customer number two come from the same place, or did you have to start from zero all over again?
I tested 10 prompts like "best tool for X" in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. Our product came up in 2 of 30 answers, and a competitor with less traffic showed up in 14.
Curious how others approach this:
Do you track AI mentions at all, or is it too early to matter?
Has anything you changed (docs, reviews, comparison pages) actually moved the needle?
Is "AI search visibility" a real channel yet, or mostly hype?
What are you working on right now? What stage your product at? Any challenges you facing? I'll go first I'm working at RAG app that will serve as internal knowledge hub for companies. Connect your tools and find anything through slack! Currently trying to figure out how to do sales and document upload to vector database
Sometimes you set out to solve a problem and end up solving the wrong one.
I got feedback that the one-click Cloudflare deploy had friction. Cloudflare won't let you set the Vectorize dimensions and metric through wrangler.json, so I went looking for a workaround. One hack led to another. The solution I landed on basically amounted to "hope this works, and if it doesn't, install wrangler and run a command manually."
Last month we connected an autonomous agent to our support inbox to speed up reply times. The AI agent worked well at first cutting our backlog to zero within the first 48 hours. I was thrilled by the results.
The trouble started when a regular client asked a billing question that had a small edge case. The AI agent hallucinated a policy refund that we never offered and answered with politeness. We only caught the AI agent because our human quality audit flagged the outbound volume before sending. I felt uneasy when we discovered the mistake.
The issue was not the model capability. Our lack of guardrails around irreversible actions. We quickly updated the workflow so the AI agent drafts all responses but any account changes require approval. I think this new guardrail is essential.
Our current setup is simple. The AI agent handles the synthesis and drafting while humans own the click. I feel this balance keeps speed and safety aligned.
As a new founder, I m starting to feel like there s a rude awakening waiting on the other side of building something.
You spend months obsessing over an idea. You build it. Break it. Fix it. Change things you were convinced were right. Question whether the idea is any good at all. Then eventually you get to that incredible moment where you can finally say:
