A few months ago, I started consulting with an AI platform. Before that, my entire career was in the food industry. Kitchens, shifts, real-world urgency. Not product launches, not SaaS, not AI.

I m also still working toward my business degree, so a lot of this feels like learning to swim by being tossed into the deep end.

What surprised me most wasn t the tech. It was the mental load of building something new. The constant second-guessing. The pressure to say it right. The endless conversations about positioning, trust, and whether people will actually understand the value you re trying to create. I hope others feel encouraged to share their experiences, knowing they're not alone in these struggles.

One thing I ve quickly learned is that users don t struggle because the tools aren t powerful enough. They battle because clarity is fragile. Context gets lost. Confidence erodes fast when answers conflict or feel shaky. That realization has shaped how our team thinks about the work we re doing at CiRQA, but it s also changed how I approach learning in general. Slower. More questions. Less pretending I already know.

Hey Product Hunt,

My name is Panche and i am 28 years old. I m new here, and honestly I m still learning how this whole Product Hunt world works. I joined because I want to meet developers and founders, learn from you, and also share what we are building with real feedback from same-minded people.

I started my online business journey when I was 25. I went to university for 4 years, but it was not for me, so I left. Back then I had no experience about the internet and how it works (except games like Dota 2 lol), but I always wanted to do my own thing. I never wanted to be employee.

My name is Marta, I'm a designer (and marketing manager and cofounder and everything that I must be in order to launch a product) and, to be fair, I'm as unsure about what I'm writing as someone new to Product Hunt would be. But that doesn't make me any less the most excited person in the world (at least my world), so here I am, presenting myself as if I'm the new girl in the class, ready to hear about all the gossip and knowledge you've been absorbing while I wasn't here.

In the meantime, I'm going to let you know that soon I'll present my (mine and my partner's) product: a link-to-Shopify-store generator with the right amount of personalization to help you launch your store fast, easy, and with top-notch content.

See you around here!

Hi everyone, I m Dario Sansano.

I ve always been that kid (and now adult) who can t stop thinking about how systems work, technical ones, social ones, even political ones. I grew up building small automated things just for fun, then got lost in 3D modeling, code, and later law. Yeah, a weird mix.

I ll be real with you: I have pretty much zero social media presence and no marketing team backing me up. So, launching this thing feels a bit like tossing it into the void. Still, I can t help it: I m just too impatient to finally get this into people s hands.

I m a writer and filmmaker, but I stumbled into being a developer by accident. I got sick of making the same 16-trait character map by hand in Illustrator every time I started a new story. I ve relied on this research-backed personality framework for years to build my characters, but eventually, I wanted the whole process to feel more like play and less like a chore.

Hey Product Hunt!

I'm Ric from France, Paris, creator of RetroGems. 11 months ago, I launched this as a side project after learning WordPress for 7 months.

Today it's a full social gaming platform with features I've never seen elsewhere:

What makes RetroGems different:

Hey everyone, my name is Nash and I'm very new to all of this. I did something I could never have imagined just a year ago... I published my first app called Numerlo - Math Trainer on the app store!!

It's nothing extraordinarily new, just a simple mental math training app that I wanted myself but couldn't find. I'm sure there're lots of things I could have done better so would love any advice or feedback you have for it. Not expecting this to go big, just keen to learn from this first app dev experience

Hi everyone,
After putting so many products in Draft on Product Hunt, the day has finally come. I will be launching my first product here in ~12 hours.
I should have prepared better, but I'm tired of pushing to tomorrow every day, so I'm making the jump.
I basically started building it because Bento is shutting down, and I saw that I was not the only one so sad about it. We have put so much effort into making it look good and feel unique. I had to build something to save it.
Knowing quite a few content creators, I shared the idea, and they were also hyped about it, so I started this -- putting aside the real app I'm working on (more about this soon, don't forget to follow ).
I hate not being focused on one thing, but in that particular scenario, with Bento sunsetting on Feb 13, I had no choice.
Now the real question is: ok, I'm not prepared, I don't have 100+ people from a newsletter or whatever, but what is ONE piece of advice you would give me to get the most out of this launch?

Thanks again and see you in future launches (mine and yours)!

I work with WordPress users who are great at generating leads, but get stuck figuring out what happens after a form submit. As a marketer, this is a basic need where we want to automate the flow of leads out to our multiple systems from where the workflows for different marketing activities originate.

That s why we built Contact Form To Any API to send Contact Form 7 data to any API or CRM without code, plugins overload or automations that might break on scale.

Hi there!

Years ago I have started working on an audiobook player for elderly (85+), visually impaired users. It was born of real need. Over time it gathered a small number of happy users.