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Na'ama Moran

6mo ago

How to Build Operations Into Your Business

For many small companies, things start to unravel not because the idea is bad, but because the operations can t scale. How can you tell? Well, it s like that dream where the harder you swim, the further you end up from shore; you just can t keep up. You ve been caught in a riptide. It s at this point that it s worth pausing for a minute and sorting out your operations. By operations, I mean the processes, systems, and tools that not only keep your head above water but get you moving forward once again. The obvious problem with focusing on operations is that many founders find it boring or even a distraction from their top concern with product and sales. It s more fun to build the product, tinker with the UX, and keep shipping new features. But just like high school English class, boring doesn t mean you should skip it. In fact, I believe you need to start thinking about systems from day one. That s because one of the things I ve noticed in my nearly 20 years of running companies is that many early-stage founders have a great idea. What they don t have is a system to validate whether this idea can turn into a business. Ops only gets trickier as you transition from starting a company to growing it. That s where things almost unraveled for my last company, Cheetah Technologies, an e-commerce and logistics-tech company catering to independent restaurants. We were fortunate to get a lot of product-market fit early on, and within a year of launching, we d raised >$6 million in venture funding. Within 3 years of launching, we were serving thousands of independent restaurants across multiple geographies. That meant a lot of processes needed to be built: hiring, onboarding, retaining and promoting talent, evaluating performance, motivating people, communicating internally, communicating with investors, and solving myriad challenges as they came up. There s a lot. And, I think, we did it really well. But there was one operational challenge we didn t have locked down, which ended up hurting us. Post-Covid, we were going to accelerate our revenue growth by acquiring a few smaller competitors, and we created systems to hire M&A professionals. The process was extensive, including interviews and validation exercises. But after the contract was signed, we took a step back, assuming the people we hired would get us there with little oversight. We didn t have the right processes in place for monitoring the performance of these new hires. The post-M&A integration was a disaster, and, as a result, we lost millions of dollars; it was a huge setback for the company. I don t want other startup founders to be unable to scale because they didn t get their operations right. Ops Doesn t Have to Be Onerous Right now, many people are using no-code platforms to spin up software. What if you could use a no-ops platform to plug into systems, tools, and frameworks to help you build, grow, and lead your company without hiring an operations person too early? That s what we re building at Waya: from an executive summary generator tool that uses Retrieval Augmented Generation to make sure your idea is sound and fundable, to frameworks for managing and evaluating team performance so you can scale. But I m just a startup founder, too, looking to validate that what I think is a great idea will actually work. So I m offering 1 hour of free startup consultation for every 1 hour of user testing. You can ask me anything about fundraising, investor relations, go-to-market, building and scaling teams, etc. In return, I will give you a sneak peek into our brand-new product and let you take it for a test drive. Sign up here: https://wayaframes.com/promotion... And I d love to get in touch on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naam...
Nolan Vu

1d ago

Pricing an AI agent platform is one of the hardest things I've done. Share a bit about it below

Per-agent? Per-seat? Per-query? Usage-based? Flat rate?

I've changed my pricing model 4 times in 12 months. Not because

I wanted to. Because the market kept telling me I was wrong and

I kept not listening fast enough.

John Builds

3d ago

How do you keep your LinkedIn posts from sounding like everyone elses AI content?

There's a pattern on LinkedIn right now that's hard to miss. Every other post opens with a one-line hook, follows a numbered list, and ends with "What would you add?" You can tell within two sentences whether someone used AI or not.

The problem isn't AI writing it's that most AI tools have no idea who you are. They generate from a blank slate every time.

Let’s make learning Indian languages more fun ❤️

Hey everyone

We re building Tingu an early-stage app focused on making Indian regional language learning simpler, practical, and fun.

samiiiR_x_sr

1d ago

RestoAI – Autonomous dining concierge & generative CRM for smart cafes 🚀

Hey Product Hunt community! My name is Sameer, and I m a college fresher sitting in my dorm room with a massive vision but literally zero dollars in my bank account. Living on campus, I constantly see our favorite local cafes completely drowning during the morning and lunch rush. They miss phone calls, waitstaff get overwhelmed, and customers get ignored. Even worse, when these shops try to send us text-based WhatsApp updates to get us to come back, almost all of us just mute them unseen.

I wanted to give these local spots a superpower, so I dreamed up RestoAI an all-in-one autonomous dining concierge and creative CRM!

Here is the exact vision of how it works: Instead of a boring paper menu, we install low-cost tablets at every table where an AI handles everything. Customers don't just scroll; they can actually talk to a "Craving Decoder" and say something like "Give me something warm, spicy, and low-carb for a rainy day," and the AI instantly pairs the perfect dish! It completely obliterates the language barrier for international tourists using a "Fluid Language Matrix" that instantly translates their native tongue straight into the kitchen staff's language. To make it the ultimate family spot, it even generates custom, interactive digital storybooks on the screen to keep restless kids entertained while they wait for their food! and like if u have a tourist it rather than a language arrier which is most a big problem can solve that they simply have to select their language and it convo with them in their own language and whats the c CATCH HERE . IF U CAN RELATE MOSTLY SOME FOREINGER are usually come to a hotel or somewhere to try something special and unique related to that region or country so this ai can suggest and talk with them in their language and can stop that barrier . and APART FROM JUST BEING A FORMAL TOOL it can also answer someother things like if a normal tourist ask about like while sitting i also want to know about the route or something local area how to get there . this tool can also help with that to them ........ and connect with them when they go home and like not only telling people or update them with offer giving free dish receipe like a foreigner went home . and want to try out something unique the same dish this ai can simply interact and give them receipe and steps how to make their fav dish ....... and tell them when u come back with your family let us know and all this thingssss .....

For the marketing side, we are completely killing boring text spam. RestoAI tracks customer patterns and generates actual interactive experiences. For example, on Valentine's Day, it auto-generates a cute, personalized presentation link celebrating a couple's relationship history that a customer can send to their partner, with a premium restaurant booking voucher beautifully embedded on the final slide! Plus, if a cafe has a super slow Tuesday afternoon or over-ordered an ingredient, the AI automatically designs and launches local social media ads to pull hungry people nearby straight through the door.

REYNOL ROJAS

1d ago

Built a free Chrome extension that shows your real social media time — launching now

Hey! Built Clarity solo in 48 hours. It tracks how much time you actually lose to social media on desktop in real time. No account. No data leaves your device. Free. Would love feedback from this community
https://www.producthunt.com/prod...

VertoX update — getting very close to launch

Hey everyone

Quick update on VertoX.

We ve made a lot of progress on the backend and core systems. We re building our own open-source ASR NMT TTS pipeline and aiming for ~1 second real-time translation.

Right now, we support 17 output languages and 10 input languages, with plans to expand further.

Page-level Analytic - see where readers engage and where they drop off.

Something we noticed with publishers, content teams, and marketers - there is a very common blind spot in how digital documents get measured.
Nobody really knows which pages held attention, which sections got skipped, or where most readers actually stopped. The production effort was real. The feedback loop was not.

We spent a lot of time sitting with that problem. The question was not "how do we add analytics" - it was "what would actually help an editor or content lead make a better decision before the next edition?"
What we landed on: page-level data has to be specific enough to act on. Knowing that your document had 400 views is not actionable. Knowing that 60% of readers dropped off at page 4, and that page 4 happens to be the densest text page in the document - that is something you can work with.
That thinking shaped how we built this into ZenFlip. The goal was not a dashboard full of numbers. It was a clear answer to the question: what should we do differently next time?

Rahul Gopi

1d ago

Honest feedback after launch

I ve been running Mazori on itself for the past few days, and here s the feedback so far
181 emails sent autonomously by agents
11 responses total 5 positive, 6 negative
4 tenants signed up for the Starter Pack
Attaching a few screenshots below. Every action taken by either an agent or a human is fully audited and traceable.
One example: the Inbound Message Agent detected a negative response and automatically added the contact to the do-not-contact list.
Another: the Lead Scorer Agent deprioritized a prospect after identifying a vertical mismatch.
This is the core idea behind Mazori specialized agents collaborating across the sales and marketing workflow, while humans stay in control with governance, auditability, and review built in.
If you re a small business juggling multiple tools for prospecting, enrichment, scoring, and outreach, give Mazori a try with the free Starter Pack. Setup takes less than 2 minutes.
No credit card. No long-term contracts. No commitments.

John Builds

4d ago

From GTM migration to missing UTM columns: getting ad attribution right as a solo founder

This morning I finished wiring Google Ads conversion tracking trial_start firing server-side, bidding optimized for trials, the whole thing.

Then a new user signed up. And I couldn't tell you where they came from.

Not because GA4 didn't know. It did. But because our users table has no UTM columns.

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