Early-stage founders often try to improve their product as much as possible and tend to take almost any feedback into account.

Sometimes they end up adding every feature users (even non-paying ones) ask for, even when those features are unnecessary. The product then becomes more complicated and harder to use.

And I m not even talking about the stage when the product is already established. At that point, there are more users, and their expectations start to differ.

I've been reading the Product Hunt Forum Guidelines repeatedly, trying to understand why some threads get through and others don't.

The guidelines say: "If it's not a genuine question or a genuine insight, we won't approve the comment or we'll put it in self-promotion."

I've been thinking about the "insight" part. A genuine insight isn't a lesson. It's not a framework. It's not "10 things I learned." It's an observation that helps someone see something differently.

The difference between "here's what I learned about pricing" and "I raised my prices and lost zero customers here's what actually happened" is that the second one is an insight. The first is content.

Many of us appreciate tools that save us time or money in our businesses. But there are also projects out there with a bigger mission (improving lives, supporting the planet, and helping those in need, to name a few).

Do you know of any inspiring projects that aim to make the world a better place?

I think AI has been around long enough for us to identify which tools have changed the way we work.

There are more and more of them every day, and sometimes it feels like it s getting harder to keep track of them all.

Today, I came across an article on TechCrunch: The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead).

It shows that UC campuses saw a drop in computer science enrollment for the first time since the dot-com crash (6% in 2025, 3% in 2024), but students are shifting to AI-focused programs.