Hey PH :) I'm Vitalijus. Figured I'd introduce myself since I plan to stick around here.

I grew up in a small town in Eastern Europe. The kind of place where everyone follows the same path. Go to university, get a safe job, stay close to home.

I tried university. Twice. Left both times. Not because I couldn't do it. I just couldn't see where it was going. It felt like I was following a script someone else wrote.

So I taught myself to code. Built project after project on my own. Spent an entire summer sending out CVs. Eventually, somehow, IBM said yes.

Hey everyone

I m Krisna, a product designer based in Indonesia.

Most of my day-to-day work is thinking about how to improve design workflows and make systems easier to manage as products grow.

Hi everyone!

I m Khairul Bashar Shamim, Product Lead at Taskip.

Hi Product Hunt!

I ve spent years in PR, recently launching SaaS products in the Brazilian market. But I m here for a more personal reason.

My close friend recently left her corporate job to build her first independent app a simple offline file converter for Mac. No cloud, no data tracking, just a practical tool for daily use.

We were traveling in Rome when she finally hit "deploy" and sent it to the App Store. Seeing that transition from employee to independent maker was a highlight for me, and I want more people to know about what she built.

Hello hello!

I am Arpan, a founder at Commudle. The journey started more than five years ago when I was solving for my own community, Google Developer Group New Delhi, and built this side project while switching 3 metro trains between home and office.

Hi everyone, I'm Serta . As a civil engineer with years of hands-on expertise in project management, planning, and resource management, I am finally reaching the end of the development process for my own planning app. As a solo maker, while i prepare for this launch, I want to share how I transitioned from being the target audience of this product to its developer, along with my experiences, realizations, and the struggles I faced along the way. Honestly, it took 6 months, working 12 hours on average, gave my all.

Considering that the majority of people on this platform have a background in software engineering or come from the tech industry, I believe those who pivoted from other professions to software might understand me best. However, I think we've all felt, at some point in our lives, that we no longer enjoy being the "producers" of our work. I believe the root cause of this lies not in human nature, but in the dynamics of today's world. For our hunter-gatherer genes, finding a reason to feel "useful" has never been simultaneously this difficult and this easy in human history. I don't want to sound pessimistic, but in an era where we cumulatively question reality, achieving "meaningful" work has become costly for both for ourselves and for others. This cost is paid through the unnecessary waste of our time and the anxiety of inadequacy poured over us by the constant rat race. At this point, the most critical concept becomes "efficiency." Whether it's just the nature of the job, because our boss demands it, or simply to feel useful... It doesn't matter. We all feel, at some point, that we are operating far below our efficiency threshold, just spinning our wheels.

Most of my work is around LLMs, voice AI, and agent systems, but lately I've been focused on building products fast and launching them.

Right now I'm building PromoMotions, an AI tool that turns one product image into multiple video ads for e-commerce sellers.

The idea came after seeing how much time sellers spend trying to create ads manually.

Editing videos.
Testing creatives.
Posting everywhere.

Hey Product Hunt, I am Ruban, and I have been building things with AI since before it was cool to say that.

I started my career as a data scientist at Yahoo in the early 2000s, back when "machine learning" was something you had to explain to your manager before you could use it. From there I co-founded two companies, Bixee, a vertical search engine that got acquired by Naspers, and DataRPM, a cognitive AI platform for industrial IoT that got acquired by Progress Software. In between and around all of that, I have spent 25 years obsessing over one question: why is it still so hard to turn a good idea into working software?

I watched the vibe-coding wave arrive and felt genuine excitement and then genuine unease. Not because the tools were bad, but because something important was missing. Imagine running software development straight off Slack or Teams. No Jira tickets. No Linear issues. No GitHub PRs. Just chat. Sounds scary, right? That is exactly what vibe coding does. AI makes code changes straight off a conversation thread. No traceability. No structure. No way to answer "what changed and why." - Complete nightmare to manage after that initial build.
I kept thinking: I know what happens when production systems are built without discipline, because I have been there for the cleanup. And I wanted to build the thing I wish had existed every time. This is what led me to build Avery.dev.