I made my Product Hunt account a few months back. Apart from a quick intro post, I didn't really do much here.
I'm an early solo founder from India. I've built several products before, but I never felt confident enough in any of them to put them out properly. This one is different. I actually believe in it, and I want to launch it here in the coming weeks.
They paid more than anyone else. They also consumed more of my time than everyone else combined. Weekly calls, custom requests, escalations that weren't escalations.
I fired them. Politely, with a transition plan, and a real reason they could understand.
In the process of growing, you may have realized some things about yourself that you hadn't noticed before. For example, maybe you're more introverted than you thought or perhaps your sense of humor is a lot darker than you had originally imagined.
Most founders in Japan do the second one. Start in Japan and only once it works, head overseas. I did the same for 22 years. All of my business was in Japanese, for Japanese customers.
Part of it is the language wall, most Japanese people don't read English online, and if you Google something in Japan, you are very unlikely to come across anything from the English-speaking world. Japan is open to the Internet, but the information-world is pretty closed off.
As a measure of the impact of vibe coding and the need to focus on positioning, narrative, and marketing and distribution, I noticed that that 610 products were submitted to the Product Hunt leaderboard today, but only 16 were featured which is less than 3%.
The previous high was just over 500 products in December.
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Online, we re constantly exposed to different takes and opinions, which can easily shape unrealistic or skewed expectations about what actually works in practice.
And it s not just life in general; it happens a lot in business too.
