Okay, so I know everyone's feed has been taken over by the Studio Ghibli but I'm curious what else people have been able to create or seen that's really left an impression. Here are some that I've created! Also on X.
I updated more options based on popular demand. I have to be honest, for me, its the entrepreneurship which wakes me up every single day. I enjoy the challenges thrown and I get motivated immensely when we achieve the small victories. But its the success which is what I think about every day.
What is it for you? 1. Finances
2. Success
3. Personal impact if it fails
4. Scaling the startup
5. How to survive
6. Family Please feel to add if there is a new reason
For me, it was a very simple, yet really insightful thing: enhance what's already working.
We're running a community forum, and our "Changelog" and "Ask the Community" categories performed really well. But after we featured them on the forum's homepage and applied some changes to improve usability, the engagement boosted significantly.
We're drowning in dashboards. Impressions, click-throughs, followers, reach, saves, shares but not all things are equal. Telling, is there a metric you're meant to be keen on, yet in actuality, you're not? Maybe you: Don't care about likes but are ridiculously fixated on replies Track shares but never take the time to check reach Are concerned about DMs only because that's where the magic happens We're building a social tool on the social web and taking a lot of time deliberating about what's truly important, and what just looks good on a chart. Would be great to hear your own opinion regarding what you're paying attention to (and what you're not).
I wrote a long essay following a talk I gave at AI DevCon in Brooklyn last month.
It starts out with an anecdote about hunting ChatGPT in December 2022 and goes on to explore what I think will be necessary to thrive as code becomes a commodity:
In December 2022, I hunted ChatGPT on Product Hunt.
It ranked #1 product of the day, then the week, and went on to be named Product of the Year.
Having co-founded a YC-backed conversational AI startup in 2018 (long before LLMs) I recognized in ChatGPT the missing ingredient that would have made that venture viable.
The future we d anticipated had arrived. I could revisit my old problem, or I could expand my area of potency by raising and deploying my own venture capital fund.
I chose the latter.
Three years later, on December 9th, I watched a 24-hour window on Product Hunt cross 500 launches roughly double what I observed throughout the preceding 825 days. Only 13 were featured; most were unremarkable.
The LLM has fundamentally shifted the economics of software development.
As someone with a dual vantage point being the #1 Product Hunter while investing in AI startups I watch the floodwaters rise in real-time.
What s become clear: SaaS is dying; VC is withering . Building software is not uniquely compelling. Code has become a commodity.
What most people miss about commoditization is that when a product or resource becomes abundant, it doesn t just get cheaper. It unlocks new and previously uneconomic uses.
Everywhere I look, I see founders and operators investing heavily in their personal brand:
LinkedIn posts every day
X threads
Podcasts, YouTube, newsletters and substacks too
Meanwhile, their CV or portfolio gets updated maybe once a year.
I m wondering if we re heading into a world where your online signal (what you say, who engages with you, what you ship publicly) will matter more than any formal CV or resume.
