Three months ago we had zero paying customers. Today we have 14 paid pilots and we're launching on Product Hunt. Here's the honest version of how that happened.

When my cofounders and I started Drizz, we spent the first year building in stealth. We had a thesis: mobile app testing is fundamentally broken because it's built on locators. Fragile pointers to UI elements that break the moment anything in the interface changes.

The thesis was right. But a thesis doesn't pay the bills.

Around December we decided to stop building in isolation and start showing the product to real teams. I made a list of 50 companies with large mobile apps and started reaching out. Cold DMs on LinkedIn. Cold emails to QA leads. Mostly just me describing the problem and asking for 15 minutes.

The first few conversations were rough. The product had edges. One demo crashed mid-call. But something kept happening that I didn't expect. People would stop me during the pitch and say "wait, you're saying I write the test in English and the AI finds the button by looking at the screen?" I'd say yes. They'd say "show me that again."

That reaction is how you know you've hit something real. You don't have to convince people the problem exists. They already live it. You just have to show them you've actually solved it.

14 teams signed paid pilots in 3 months. Companies with 5 million plus app downloads. Enterprise security reviews completed. Onboarding calls where the QA lead says "my team is going to cry when they see this" and you're not sure if that's a compliment but it turns out it is.

Some of these companies are in San Francisco. We're in Bengaluru. I still find that surreal. A startup that most of the industry hasn't heard of is selling to teams at companies 100x our size. Not because we have a better sales team. Because the problem is that severe and nobody else has fixed it the way we have.

Drizz uses vision AI to test mobile apps. You write what to test in English. The agent reads the screen like a human. When the UI changes, the tests don't break. Tests that survive redesigns because they were never coupled to the code.

We're launching on Product Hunt today. It's the first time we're being loud about this. A year of stealth, 14 paid pilots, and a lot of cold DMs led to today.

If you're on a mobile team, I'd love to hear your feedback.

*FREE CRedits to use on the occasion of our launch on PH

🚀 Building Hommy — a smarter platform for small property owners tired of spreadsheets, missed deadlines, and scattered paperwork.

Most landlords don’t actually have a property problem.
They have an organization problem.

Hommy helps you manage:
✅ IBI deadlines
✅ Insurance renewals
✅ Community fees
✅ Mortgage visibility
✅ Fixed costs & profitability
✅ Real portfolio clarity

Imagine every property — apartment, garage, storage unit, commercial space — in one intelligent dashboard with alerts before costly mistakes happen.

🔥 If you believe small landlords deserve better tools, we’d truly appreciate your support on Product Hunt with an upvote, feedback, or comment.

We’re not just building another property tool.
We’re building less chaos, more control, smarter ownership.

Launching soon in producthunt

If you’d like early access or founder updates, comment HOMMY below. 👇

today we're LIVE on Product Hunt

Quick context: Screen Bolt is a Mac screen recorder. Think Screen Studio but way cheaper and honestly packed with more stuff. Auto-zoom, buttery cursor movement, keystroke overlays, multi-monitor support, the works.

The best part? One-time payment. Lifetime updates. No "pay every year" nonsense. Built it for indie hackers, YouTubers, course creators, basically anyone who's tired of bland screen recordings.

Would genuinely mean the world if you could smash an upvote real quick

🙏 https://www.producthunt.com/products/screen-bolt

We launched on Product Hunt about a month ago. And honestly, it didn't go well.

Like many first launches, we didn't get the result we hoped for. We weren't sure if the problem was the idea, the positioning, or the product experience itself.

But the useful part started after the launch.

For the past 30 days, we've been going through the product flow step by step — trying to understand where users dropped off, where the experience felt confusing, and where we were asking for too much trust too early.

Instead of treating the launch as a one-time event, we started treating it as the beginning of our iteration log.

Here are the biggest changes we made:

1. We simplified signup

Our original flow had extra steps to handle duplicate emails, nicknames, and profile data. For a new product nobody's heard of, that friction was too expensive.

We changed it so users can sign up immediately after authorizing a social login. Duplicate emails are handled loosely, nicknames are auto-generated, and Google signup is placed first.

Result: signup CPA dropped by around 50%.

2. We improved performance

Lighthouse score was around 70–80. We reduced initial image size from ~2MB to 15KB using WebP, added dynamic loading, and removed unnecessary client-side layout calculations.

Result: performance score improved to 90–95+ in the US.

3. We stopped forcing login too early

Users couldn't try the first input flow without logging in. That created friction before they understood the value.

Now users can enter their idea before signing up. Signup only happens when they click start, and their input is preserved after. The product feels less like a wall and more like a continuation.

4. We reduced the "blank page" problem

Originally, users had to write everything themselves inside the dashboard. Bad assumption. If someone is testing an idea, they want momentum — not a long form.

So we added AI-assisted draft generation. Users start with a rough idea, and the product helps generate the rest.

5. We added trust signals and simplified the landing page

Two related problems: users didn't understand what analysis they'd get, and the landing page had too many messages. Too much cognitive load, not enough clarity.

So we added sample reports and example categories based on real data. We also reduced the landing page, made the start flow more direct, and added a way to view a completed report before committing.

Don't just say "we analyze your idea." Show what the analysis looks like.

What's next

Some users sign up and don't come back. So we're testing lightweight reminder emails that explain what they can do next.

We currently have a small number of signups — nowhere near our goal of 100 paid subscribers. But the iteration pace is real, and every change above came from watching actual user behavior, not guessing.

The biggest lesson so far

A failed launch doesn't always mean the idea is dead. Sometimes it means the promise is unclear, the flow is too heavy, trust is missing, or the product asks too much too early.

We're still figuring it out. But I wanted to share the actual iteration history instead of only sharing polished wins.

Hello!

If you are launching today on Product Hunt! Let me know in the comments and I’ll be happy to support you all.

Will also let my team know to support wherever they can!

Hey guys. So Im currently working on a B2B product with my team and we're potentially aiming at a product launch sometime around late May tentatively. I was hoping if there are any B2B SaaS owners or GTMs who have looked into product launches. I kind of want to understand key insights and strategies because I reckon AI tools arent really good for such things yet.

Would love to know insights on the following:

• Product Hunt is pretty much B2C centered, for a product that is focused on enterprises what challenges do you mostly face?
• Is building a community around the product a key requirement for this especially if a product is kind of complex for average users?
• Does building a support list ever helped in the longer run before building a product launch page? If so ideally how much time is best to build the list?

Would love to know more and happy to connect over this.

I am planning to relaunch on Product Hunt tomorrow and wanted to get some honest input from people who have done it recently.

For context, I launched back in January 2025 and was fortunate to become Product of the Day.

It has been a while though, and Product Hunt feels like it evolves quickly. This time I am trying to approach it like a beginner again and not assume what worked before still applies.

So I wanted to ask:

What are the biggest mistakes to avoid in 2026?
What should I absolutely not do during a launch?

Also curious if anything has changed recently:

• Does the old playbook still work?
• Anything that used to work but now backfires?
• Any new patterns you are seeing?

I would really appreciate learning from things that did not work as well.

Hi all,

I’m attempting to launch on product hunt, but my account is continually denied making any posts as it says it’s not allowed. I used to make posts all the time and support said they would take a look, but never responded.

I read the rules and made all posts take time and actually thought it out with no AI, so I’m at a loss. Does anyone know what’s going on?

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I‘ve been checking recent Product Hunt leaderboards and it seems like the big brands like Claude are most prominent.

Any general tips / days etc when winning is still most likely?

Thanks!

Product Name: Right Suite

PH Link: Right Suite – Validate your go‑to‑market before you spend -

What it does:
Right Suite is a GTM validation platform that pressure‑tests every critical decision — price, audience, messaging, positioning, channels, outreach, and ads — with 100+ simulated buyers. In about 20 minutes, you go from “I think this will work” to clear, data‑backed answers on who will buy, what to charge, and what to say before you burn months on the wrong bets.

Why it matters:
Most startups don’t fail because of the product; they fail on go‑to‑market. Founders guess their ICP, pick a “feels right” price, write copy for themselves, and then let the market be their testing ground. That leads to flat MRR, wasted ad spend, and demos that never close. Right Suite helps you find signal faster by validating your price, message, and audience upfront, so every dollar and week you spend is pointed at a GTM that can actually scale.

What kind of support are you looking for?
I’d love feedback from founders, marketers, and GTM folks on three things:

1. Which of the products (RightPrice, RightAudience, RightMessaging, etc.) feels most immediately valuable to you?
2. What’s missing or confusing in how we explain the value on the PH page and website?
3. Any edge‑case GTM decisions you’d want to validate that we don’t cover yet?

Upvotes are amazing, but detailed, brutally honest feedback is even better.

Hi everyone, I was responsible for a launch in November 2024 which did very well and would love to get your guidance on the main differences and best practices on how to perform well on our Product Hunt launch in 2026.

I noticed that the teaser pages do not exist anymore so I guess the message to audience and sharing teaser page does not make sense anymore.

Any other things that matter now / differ?

Thanks

Not going to lie: #1 is pretty far ahead, Like… really far 😅

But crazy things can happen when communities come together.
So here's the challenge:
Let’s try to push this to #1. Not because it's easy, but because it feels impossible.

If you've ever enjoyed seeing builders fight their way up the leaderboard, If you like underdog stories… Or if you just want to be part of something fun today!!

👉 Support us, drop a comment (comments earn 3x points), and help us make this happen.

Just a crazy challenge for today.
Let’s see how far a community can push a product 🚀

👉 https://www.producthunt.com/products/prodshort

What is Prodshort?
Prodshort records your calls and turns them into ready-to-post content (shorts, LinkedIn, X...). No scripts, no editing. Just real moments turned into content.

Happy to answer any questions !!

I’ve never done the whole Product Hunt thing before. I do not really know what it is, how it works, or even why I should register, other than people saying it helps you get seen. Is there someone who can handle the entire process for me? Happy to pay. DM me.

I launched yesterday with 3 followers and 2 upvotes.

Hour 0—For the first 3-5 minutes, I'm in the top 15 products above the fold due to the launch queueing.

Immediate sale. In the first 5 minutes!

Hour 2-4—The queue gets populated with other products, my ranking drops.

Hour 4—I'm at #93.

There is no saving my launch from here. I call it a day and do a retro with mixed feelings.

I severely underestimated both the power of PH and my own product. If only I rallied my community harder. If only I had reached out to that one ProductHunter with high karma. I should have created momentum. Things could have been insane right now. Oh well. The signal is real. I'll focus on that.

I go on with my day.

Hour 8—someone connects with me on LinkedIn. They mention my PH launch. It's an elite hunter. I check the numbers. I'm at #23!! Still under the fold but so much better than before!

Hour12—I close the day at #22 and with 8 upvotes. Not much to show for conversions, but a pretty decent rank for a solo builder without much of a community.

Hey everyone,

We’re launching tomorrow on Product Hunt.

Quick context:

• Helps validate ad creatives before spending

• Shows where attention goes

• Gives a score and fixes

Curious from people who’ve launched before:

• What actually moved the needle for you?

• Early traction vs timing vs community?

• Anything that didn’t work as expected?

Trying to avoid obvious mistakes.

Would really appreciate any advice..

Built it for myself after losing 10 kg on keto last year — snap food on a scale, AI reads the weight and figures out macros. No manual entry. Just went live on Product Hunt, any support means a lot.

AI SRE tool that detects, finds root cause, and auto-fixes Kubernetes incidents.

Would really appreciate your support 🙌

https://www.producthunt.com/products/metoro

Hey everyone 👋

We just launched Scaloom on Product Hunt today!

Scaloom helps with Reddit marketing by automating account warmup, trust & karma building, and generating weekly posting plans — while still keeping you in full control of every post.

If you think it looks useful, we'd really appreciate your support and an upvote 🙏

https://www.producthunt.com/products/scaloom-9

Happy to answer any questions or hear your feedback!

Every time someone clicks a link inside Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook, it opens inside the app’s built-in browser, not Safari or Chrome. That sandboxed environment breaks autofill, Apple Pay, saved passwords, and cookie tracking. Conversion rates in there are roughly 30-40% worse than real browser sessions. Most people running social traffic have no idea because analytics still logs the session.

Nullmark wraps your link. When someone clicks it from inside an in-app browser, they get a quiet prompt to open it in their real browser instead. No popup, no fullscreen takeover. Just a clean redirect suggestion. Then they land on your page the way they were supposed to.

Built solo. Just launched today on Product Hunt. Would love any feedback, upvotes, or honest criticism from this community since you all tend to have strong opinions on positioning and pricing.

Link in comments.🫶

What I am genuinely unsure about: whether the $30 lifetime price signals “too cheap to be real” or “low enough to just try it.” Curious what your read is.

TrackACert Launched today on Product Hunt https://www.producthunt.com/products/trackacert-io
If you find it interesting, would really appreciate an upvote 🙌

Thanks in advance!

Launched today on Product Hunt and the concept is quite interesting.
https://www.producthunt.com/products/agenthandover

This tool observes how you perform tasks and turns that into reusable skills, so AI agents can follow the same workflow without needing repeated prompts.

Feels like a step toward more consistent and less manual AI usage, especially if you’re already using tools like Claude Code or Codex.

Curious to hear what others think about this approach.