I launched a product a year ago that nobody could actually use. Last week I fixed that.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Francesco. I build software from Italy.
Seven launches here in the past year — Fyn, TaxPilot, Paper2Base,
Cost Tracker, an audio plugin suite, a summarizer, and the one
that started it all.
Almost all of them came from the same place: something annoyed
me enough that I decided to fix it myself.
The first one was CoworkSpace Manager Pro. I was in a shared
office — not a coworking space, an associate studio, a few
professionals sharing rooms. The work was never the problem.
The meeting room was.
Someone had a client at 3. Someone else had booked the same
room for 2:30 and hadn't told anyone. A third had written it
on a whiteboard nobody read. Same argument every week,
occasionally in front of the client.
Shared calendars lasted about a month, until people stopped
updating them.
So I built the thing that refuses to let two bookings overlap.
I launched it a year ago as screenshots and a landing page.
Nobody could actually use it. Last week I finally put the whole
app online — real database, real bookings, four languages.
The demo is open, no signup. Try booking the same room twice
and watch it say no. That's the part I cared about.
Still no payments. I'd rather find out what's missing first.
Happy to talk to anyone building solo — it's slower than it
looks from the outside.
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a year between screenshots and a real database is a brutal gap to sit in. what actually kept it as a landing page that long, was it just other launches eating the time or something about the booking logic that took forever to get right