We launched our product on Product Hunt on 5th February 2026. Our entire team was extremely intense, excited, and honestly a little nervous. We had prepared for weeks, but nothing truly prepares you for the energy of launch day.
One surprising moment? When the day started, there were a lot of strong products launching alongside us. It immediately became clear how competitive the platform really is. And the most interesting (and stressful) part we couldn t see competitor vote counts for the first 4 hours because they were hidden. That period felt very long. We had no idea where we stood, and that uncertainty tested our patience.
It turned out to be one of the most intense yet rewarding days for our team.
Before launch day, we believed success was mainly about having a great product. But after going through the entire experience, we realized that launching on Product Hunt is much more than just clicking the publish button.
As an HR professional, I ve seen that the #1 reason employees lose faith in leadership isn't a lack of vision, it's a lack of follow-through.
When a manager says "I'll look into that" and forgets, a tiny piece of culture dies. Multiply that by 100 Slack threads, and you have a retention crisis. I realized managers didn't need more "training"; they needed a better operating system.
I ve been working on something called DragonGuard.
The idea is simple:
The moment you step away from your workstation, it locks automatically. No cloud dependency. No delays. Built for environments where a single unlocked system can cost millions.
"Revenue up, profit down." It s the defining crisis of 2026 DTC. --------- I ve seen this script too many times: CMO: "Look at this 3.5x ROAS! We re crushing it." CFO: "Then why is our cash position lower than last month?" The gap? Attribution tools like Triple Whale show you ROAS, but they don't show you Profit. They miss the duties, the 3PL fees, and the return shipping that quietely destroys AOV. Mid-market brands (1M 10M) are stuck. You re too big for basic app-store trackers but can t justify $1,000/mo for Northbeam. I built Okiela as the "Profit Layer" that attribution tools leave out. No data team needed. Just pure P&L visibility so you can stop scaling your way into bankruptcy. #shopify #ecommerce #dtcfounder #profitintelligence #supplychain #okiela
A few months ago, we launched CoreSight here as a McKinsey-in-a-box platform for founders and operators. You showed up, gave us great feedback, and we've been building since.
This time, we're focused on a feature we've been quietly using ourselves: Analyze a stock.
We saw @aaronoleary's post this morning and did a full sprint. A few hours later, Flare is live on Product Hunt.
Flare is an AI-native social app where you capture signals of your life, video, photos, texts, links, and audios; and autonomous AI agents do the rest. They observe your patterns and your friends' over time, surfacing insights you wouldn't notice yourself.
No followers. No likes. No performance. Your identity emerges from what you actually do.
Most calendars show you what is scheduled. Orbit shows you how much time is actually left.
I built this as a solo developer because I kept missing the feeling of time passing until it was already gone. A grid of appointments never fixed that. Orbit does.
