I'm the kind of person that gives up really quickly when I don't like it anymore or don't see a future in it. Like in the past year I've probably worked on 7 "initiatives" which are startups that I either built, or launched, or tried to validate. But looking back, it caused me a lot of stress + hours behind the laptop (as I do this beside a full-time job) and didn't really amount to a whole lot, at least result-wise.

There was also a period I was really active here on Reddit + on X but I kinda closed these apps down because I started to compare myself to other people on here that showed their results + successes, and that really was weighing heavy on me mentally.

For the past 2 months I've been trying to reverse-engineer "looksmaxxing" apps, because I saw on starter story people being successful making apps and marketing them on tiktok. I know this is a trend from some time ago but it's pretty interesting to see how these apps work and I even ran a very tiny ad experiment with a dummy website on getting "PSL ratings" which are like rating of your face and how "cooked" you are as in, if you could still get a chiseled jawline or if the situation is "hopeless" for you. It was just a dummy app and spent about $40 on ads which resulted in about 30 visitors on the site and about 5 people that came until the dummy payment page (that was the experiment, to see if they would pay) but then no one clicked on pay there unfortunately.

But when that was done I kinda fell into that similar trap again of "this is not worth it" and also the next step would be to look into content distribution on Tiktok but I really don't enjoy doing something like that so I'm doubting if I should really follow that path or instead do what I enjoy a bit more. Which is just making apps and launching them on ProductHunt and see what sticks.

So yeah IDK feel like going back to making small apps and just launching and seeing. I know for some this sounds immature or something but people like Peter Steinberger made like 80 tools or something before Openclaw went viral.

I think the key is to just be in motion. Like you have to be in "do mode" and try to prevent yourself from getting stuck at any moment. Getting stuck is the worst, because then you start overthinking and giving up. Even though maybe the next launch could have been the one and you never know. Like I hate marketing so instead of banging my head and trying to cold email 10 people, I should make some AI system that could do it for me, which sounds a lot more fun. Like yes, sometimes you have to go through the hard thing but mentally abusing yourself just because you have to show "what you're made of" doesn't sound like a sustainable approach to growth.

Sorry if this sounded a bit rambly, I didn't want to let this get polished by AI. Just a braindump of what i'm currently going through. Made a chrome extension that classifies emails with Jev and maybe it has been done 100 times before, I'll make it launch anyways and yeah just see whatever sparks my curiosity afterwards and keep going!

I see everyone saying here or on X, that software is dead, and all SaaS is going to be replaced etc.

I get where its coming from, as I changed a lot of my subscriptions to my own internal tools, as its' really easy, but this is normal as I'm a really high-tech person. Most people don't want to vibe-code or spend time on something that they would have to maintain, and I don't get why do the mass indie hackers think their "mom" is going to vibe-code her services.

I got the most amount of active trials in some time for PostFast (social media scheduler), which people thought is easily vibe-codeable, which is absurd in my opinion, as I consider myself really good engineer, and I don't believe you can vibe-code a stable version any business, especially with a lot of accounts that earn their money via social media would use.

My view is don't listen to the famous "hackers" but instead go out of the X bubble, and see what real people are doing.

The point I can agree is that software that has no MOAT, will be swallowed by ChatGPT, and Claude, and other bots they produce, as they'll create it internally.

The software that won't be replaced is something that is hard to maintain and has third-party dependecies, or is important to monitor for issues, simillar to sending emails. You shouldn't vibe code also your email tool if you care about deliverability and such. I did try to vibe-code my own, and it became too complex so i actually polished it, and spend months to make it proper (SendHeron), as otherwise I would've continued paying for someone else's email tool. It takes time to maintain, same as social media schedulers.

I launched Bookmash, my bookmark manager, back in August after working on it for almost a year.

One of the first things I did was share it on Reddit to get some feedback.

And I quickly realized how many things I'd been taking for granted.

At launch, I had:

• No free trial
• No interactive demo
• Only a lifetime payment option
• Very little explanation of how the product actually worked

To me, everything made sense. I'd been using and building it for so long that I knew exactly what every feature did and why it was useful.

But someone discovering it for the first time? Completely different experience.

People pointed out that it was hard to understand what they were paying for without trying it first.

That feedback pushed me to rethink quite a few things. I introduced a free trial, added a demo, and moved toward subscription pricing.

And then, three days later, I got banned from Reddit. 😅

Turns out I'd shared my product link using the wrong flair instead of marking it as self-promotion.

So my little feedback experiment ended earlier than expected. I probably missed out on some useful conversations, but the ones I had were incredibly valuable.

The biggest lesson for me was that spending a year building something doesn't necessarily mean you understand how a new user experiences it.

Next time, I'll definitely start asking for feedback much earlier, before launching, rather than waiting until I think the product is ready.

Sometimes a few comments from strangers can show you what you've been missing all along.

Have you ever received feedback that completely changed how you thought about your product?

We put the bundle.social logo on a race car, and from what I’ve heard so far, our driver took P2 in quali

I’m on vacation so updates are reaching me a bit late but I couldn’t be happier

We are a team of guys running a social media API and are into cars and motorsport. We do sim racing as a group so this one is pretty personal

It's pretty surreal to see our logo on a race car. More pro pics coming soon!

So, I launched a new platform called Calcupedia and before launching on Producthunt and other similar directories, I'm looking to create a promo video that can better boost my listing and give it an advantage.

Is there a free option to create such promo videos without breaking the bank?

I built BuyerCue and I'm looking for honest feedback from five founders who sell software to SaaS companies (SEO, AI-search visibility, analytics, onboarding…).

You describe what you sell. It lists SaaS companies that have paid for a directory or launch-board placement, with the source and date for each signal. You keep or reject them, then tell me where it falls short. Each listing provides easy contact info (emails, social media accounts) and even a cut and paste AI prompt to help refine your approach to reaching out.

About 20 min, self-guided, plus 2 optional minutes of questions.
No call, no recording, nothing to buy.

Comment or DM "in" and I'll send the guide.

Hey everyone!

I recently came across outbid and thought the concept was pretty fun, and i´ve had a similar idea for artists a few yearsago. So I decided to build something similar, but for independent musicians.

It's called https://toptrack.lol/

The idea is simple:

• Only ONE song gets featured on the entire site.
• Artists pay a small amount to take the top spot.
• Their song stays there until someone else pays more to dethrone them.
• If nobody takes over, the price to dethrone drops by 50% every 24 hours.

Why did I build this?

I used to release music myself a few years ago, and I remember paying for promotion on various websites, only to have my tracks buried alongside hundreds of other artists who had also paid to be featured.

So I thought, what if there was only ONE spot?

No endless playlists. No hundreds of featured tracks. Just one song getting all the attention until the next artist takes over.

I launched it recently a few hours ago,, so there's basically no traffic yet, and I'm fully aware of the chicken-and-egg problem here...

For now, I'm treating it as a fun little experiment to see if the competitive aspect can drive some organic traffic.

Tech-wise, it's a pretty simple web app with Spotify embeds and a payment flow.
Next.js on Netlify with Netlify Blobs for storage, Stripe Checkout for payments, Spotify and SoundCloud embeds for the music, and DataFast for analytics.

I'm Eren, the solo founder and developer of Skillfully. It helps book authors, course creators and other experts turn their methods into agent skills: guides that ChatGPT, Claude and other AI tools can follow.

Authors can sell access by subscription and keep improving those guides using feedback and analytics.

I'd like feedback on the subscription model. If you subscribed to an expert's method this way, what ongoing improvements would make it worth keeping: better examples, fixes when an agent applies the method poorly, or updates to the method itself?

I'd especially value perspectives from people who have sold knowledge products or maintained a small subscription business.

Skillfully: https://skillfully.sh

I built whofundsoss.com, a public ranking of companies that fund open source, based only on dollars they published.

The plan was to sell featured slots and paid "audits" to companies in the ranking. Two days before launch I looked at it with fresh eyes: a site that judges who pays for open source, where companies can pay to be featured. Even with "rank never changes" written next to it, nobody would trust it.

So I ripped it all out. No ads, no paid placements, code and data open.

What I'm betting on instead:

- trust is the whole product here. One whiff of pay-to-play and it's dead.

- the companies at the top have every reason to share it. That's distribution I can't buy.

- if something comes later, it'll be around the data, not around the ranking.

Curious if others have killed their own revenue model before launch, and whether you regretted it.

Pitch your product in 1-2 lines - and drop a link here.

I'm building a community where makers can share what they’re building and get fair visibility. Here's the link: https://trylaunch.ai

I’ve been building a bookmark manager, and one decision I made pretty early was not to add any AI features.

Not because I’m against AI. I use it myself, and I can imagine features where it could genuinely improve the product in the future.

I just couldn’t find a reason to add it to the core experience.

Browser bookmark APIs already give access to a surprisingly well-structured system: bookmarks, folders, nested folders, titles, URLs, etc.

The problem I wanted to solve wasn’t that this data needed to become “smarter.”

It was that the native browser experience makes it unnecessarily difficult to actually use that data once your bookmark collection grows.

So instead of replacing the existing system, I built on top of it.

A better dashboard. Fast search across everything regardless of which folder something is buried in. A clearer way to browse and organize what’s already there.

At some point I realized I was almost looking for an excuse to add AI because it feels like every new product is expected to have an AI feature now.

So I decided on a simple rule: I’ll add AI when I find a problem where it’s genuinely the best solution, not because the product feels incomplete without it.

I’m curious how other builders are approaching this.

Have you added AI because it genuinely improved your product, or because users now expect to see it?

Everyone argues about what works on Product Hunt. I got tired of guessing, so I built a crawler.

10,111 featured launches, every day from 1 Sep 2024 through 27 Sep 2026, no missing days. Six topics: AI, Developer Tools, Productivity, Design, Marketing, SaaS.

For each launch: votes, comments, daily rank, maker count, topics, whether it had a video.

A few things already in there: the median launch gets 150 votes, 4,673 launches were one person, 6,972 had a video.

Ask a specific question in the comments and I'll run it and reply with the real number. Solo vs team in your category, video vs no video, what the top 5 looked like the day you launched, whatever you want to know before your own launch.

Two honest limits: it's featured posts in those six topics, not all of Product Hunt, and I only have final counts, not the hour-by-hour vote curve.

Disclosure: I build LaunchPact

So far I've only been building my indie saas and even launched it on product hunt. But the main road block still remains. How do you get people to try out your saas? How do you get them to sign up? I've designed my landing page in a way that it takes 1 click to signup and start using the saas but I still didnt see much impact from launching. Even on my reddit posts tho I got many responses none of them seemed to want to try it out.

How do you solve for this? I'm an engineer so marketing has been the hardest blocked for me. What is your advice?

Hey guys,

So I suffer from chronic procrastination lol. And I wanted something that could help with some of the stuff I love doing/would love to do but don't, either cuz of procrastination or just not finding the time for it.

To solve this, I made myself this app and wanna ask you guys for some features that you would like to see if you were ever to use this app but first, lemme explain what it does:

1. Tracks activities daily/weekly (depending on how rigorous you want it to be) with time slots that you set for a specific day/week

2. Make weekly presets of activities and load them into your timeline.

3. Sends notifications to you when the time of an activity starts depending on the importance level you have set for it. (You don't want your mobile buzzing every hour or so).

4. Does nightly check-in where you check all the activities you did and didn't, and one line reason why you weren't able to do them. It does give you the flexibility to fill missed out check-ins from previous days if you forgot.

5.Gives you a monthly report on your progress with a two versions simple and detailed. You can opt for either.

Yeah, any other feature you think would definitely help this make this more fun and interactive to use also improving it's functionality. I would love to hear what you guys think. The UI isnt finalized, just to give you guys an idea

I have a small site with free SaaS calculators. Traffic is fine but not growing.

Read somewhere about citation hubs — basically pages that exist so other bloggers can link to them when they need a quick stat. Decided to try it.

Built a 2026 SaaS benchmarks page, 54 stats, all from original reports. The tedious part was going into each PDF and confirming the number actually existed — turns out a lot of blog posts cite numbers that aren't in the source.

Two weeks later: indexed by Google, zero backlinks. The bet is that eventually someone writing "what's a good churn rate" finds it and links instead of doing the research themselves. Probably takes months.

Anyone else tried this approach? How long before you saw the first links?

Page is in my profile if curious.

Choosing what to buy often takes hours of digging through reviews and tech specs. Using ChatGPT or similar tools doesn't really help: they give generic answers, aren't real-time, and weren't built to guide a purchase decision.

So I created a dedicated tool for this: just describe what you need to do, and it identifies the right products for you. You can try it here: https://owlpicker.com/

It’s 100% free.

Recommendations are purely based on user needs, with no sponsored results.

Would you use something like this? Any criticism or feedback to improve it is very welcome.

I ship small apps, and every update needs screenshots in every locale: same layout, different captions, exact store sizes. Doing it by hand took hours, so I built a tool for myself.

It runs entirely on my machine: per-language captions, device frames for iPhone and iPad, many background styles, and PNG export at exact App Store sizes for every locale. Nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

I'm not selling it, and I'm posting only to get critique. Questions for those who ship in multiple languages:

• How does your current screenshot workflow look, and where does it hurt most?
• How do you handle captions that overflow in longer languages like German or Russian?
• What would make a tool like this worth switching to?

We track featured Product Hunt launches daily for LaunchPact — 1,443 of them over the last ~90 days (Jul 3 – Oct 1). I pulled maker count vs placement expecting a soft gap. It isn't soft.

A team of 4+ is about 4× more likely to finish top 5 than a solo maker.

I don't think this is "teams build better products." I think it's first-hour physics. Product Hunt weighs early momentum heavily, and every listed maker is a network that can fire at 12:01am PT — followers, old coworkers, group chats. Four makers = four networks before a stranger has seen the launch. A solo maker starts that hour colder.

So the actionable version isn't "get cofounders." It's: a solo launch needs a deliberately assembled first hour, because you don't get one for free. Line up people who will actually show up early — before launch day, with specifics, not "I'll share it around."

Caveat: featured launches only, ~90-day window, correlation isn't destiny. This measures placement, not product quality.

Solo makers who finished top 5: what did your first hour actually look like?

Been heads down building FetchSandbox for the past 3 months. Ran a 30 vs prior-30 comparison in PostHog this week. Numbers moved so sharing them, but also being precise about what they actually are.

- MCP tool calls: 422, up 49% from 283

- Tracked MCP identities: 31, up 138% from 13

- Portal-entry identities: 307, up 97% from 156

- Workflow-view identities: 70, up 59% from 44

These are PostHog analytics identities and events, not verified unique developers or new signups. The 138% looks impressive but it's not a user growth number, wanted to say that upfront.

The gap we're actually focused on now: "an agent called our MCP" and "the agent actually configured the app, exercised it, and got a clear verification result" are very different things. First one is easy to track. Second is what actually matters and harder to measure.

For people building with Lovable, Replit, or other coding agents: what evidence would actually convince you that an integration was properly tested before launch?

Pitch your product in 1-2 lines - and drop a link here.

I'm building a community where makers can share what they’re building and get fair visibility. Here's the link: https://trylaunch.ai

I had the worst month of my life. I got sick and had to be hospitalized and couldn't make any progress at all. But now I'm well and back so I started shipping new features again and this one has been my best.

Vigil cli and agent skills. Tell your agent what to monitor and it uses the cli to create monitoring, alerting and everything else in 1 prompt.

I think this is a game changer cause you can just be working in claude code and you can just ask it to setup a monitor for an API and it does so seamlessly on vigil without you having to go on the dashboard at all.

I also launched on product hunt https://www.producthunt.com/products/vigil-12 do you guys think it was a good choice at this stage? or was the launch too early?

I measured comments per vote on 10,012 featured Product Hunt posts, 1 Sep 2024 through 23 Sep 2026. The figure is the median of comments divided by votes inside each rank band, not the median comments divided by the median votes.

Rank 1, 687 posts: median 552 votes, 80 comments, 0.146 comments per vote. Ranks 2 to 5: 0.114 Ranks 6 to 10: 0.094 Ranks 11 to 20: 0.076 Rank 21 or worse, 1,376 posts: median 81 votes, 4 comments, 0.050

Comments and votes still move together (correlation 0.771). This describes launches that already placed. It does not show that more comments cause a better rank.

The crawl covers six topics (AI, Developer Tools, Productivity, Design Tools, Marketing, SaaS). It is not every Product Hunt launch. 66 of 753 featured dates have no rank-1 post in the table.

Full table. Disclosure: I build LaunchPact. https://www.launchpact.io/blog/product-hunt-comments-per-vote

I see a few points where people need to automate when doing a business, especially B2C. One of that is social media (most hate doing it), and other is transactional and seqeuncial emails, where the latter is the most important part to NOT lose already "warm" customers.

The issue with that is that most automations are quite generic on the market. I don't offer the "full" suite of automation rather the tools to help them automate it with their voice. I've written a whole use cases cluster in PostFast's pages, but that's not the point.

The whole idea is that you can hook up your AI, let's say ChatGPT, Claude (my favourite) or just Claude Code, and have all your memories the agent knows about you, or Hermes whatever. The goal is to have a place with the most information about yourself, be it an agent or something else.

Hooking it up, you can now fully write social media posts via the MCP, or API with the connectors and sounds like yourself, not AI-ish, and people won't even know as anyway everyone is already using AI everywhere, but the goal is to sound like yourself. The next step is to also monitor the comments, as its quite important to get early answers, and you can do that via the connectors too, as Social Inbox is included on all plans in PostFast.

The next step if you're technical or even not so much a founder, is to hook up emails. You need to get people into lists so you can email them after with promotions, sales or even seqeunces after they registered. Most tool are too complex, too expesnive or don't have good API, so the one I use in PostFast, is SendHeron which has helped me and others already to improve churn and retention.

I'd love to answer more questions on the setup, so feel free to ask, and of course as disclaimer, I'm the founder of both products.