Hi makers! I'm Tiffany Pham, CEO and Founder of Mogul, I'm really excited to be here answering any questions you have about: community building, edtech and educational products, networking and career building products, organizing conferences, supporting the career and leadership development of millennials and Gen-Z, empowerment and especially female empowerment. I'm also excited to announce that on 21 September we're holding our Mogul X conference in New York City [https://onmogul.com/mogulx]. Last year we had attendees come from over 100 cities and seven countries. It's all about what young professionals need to level up in the career game and reach their goals.
Let's explore the year's essence together by exchanging our thoughts about #2023InOneWord! Mine: Momentum To achieve great things, maintaining positive momentum is a must!
For over a week, the wider Product Hunt community has been chiming in with their two cents in the discussion about where to draw the line between which product features should be free and which should require payment.
Just yesterday on X, a post started trending about a tool with 35,000+ users, but only just over 1,300 paying customers. The founder was asking the community for advice on how to increase conversions.
For 15 years I built ecommerce stores for clients at my agency in Italy. Good business, good clients, but always trading time for money. Last year I took a problem I kept solving manually for clients, writing product descriptions, and turned it into a SaaS product.
The transition from agency to product was harder than I expected. A few things I learned the hard way:
Your agency clients are NOT your SaaS target market. They want custom work, not self-service tools. Different mindset entirely.
Pricing is a completely different game. In agency work you price by the hour or project. In SaaS you price by the value delivered and underpricing is the default mistake.
Marketing yourself feels wrong. After 15 years of marketing other people's businesses, promoting your own product feels awkward. You have to get over it fast.
The loneliest part is making decisions alone. In agency work the client tells you what to build. In SaaS, you decide and you live with the consequences.
Being bootstrapped is a superpower, not a limitation. No investors means no pressure to grow at all costs. You can build what actually matters.
I'm still early in this journey and learning every day.
We expected users to ask for more features. Instead, they kept asking for fewer steps to complete the same task. That changed the way we think about product development. Adding functionality isn t always progress. Sometimes removing friction creates much more value. Has customer feedback ever completely changed the direction of your product?
Dashboards, analytics, CRMs, most of what I use is great at reporting on the past. Very few actually tell me what needs doing today. Anyone found or built something that closes that gap?
The Product hunt community is amazing, and I know there's lots of knowledge to share. I want to make the forums the most vibrant forums for product builders on the internet! To that end we've re-designed forums, defined sub-forums, and introduced product-specific forums, and we've drafted new guidelines to keep the discussions vibrant, authentic, and genuinely useful. The new guidelines are here - https://help.producthunt.com/en/... - you can read them in full, but here's my summary: When posting a new forum thread, ask yourself:
1) Is this a genuine question I have that I want the community to answer? 2) Is this an insight that will be helpful to other builders and product geeks?
