I built a self-hosted AI memory layer on Cloudflare because I was tired of re-explaining context to Claude every session. Open sourced it. Then decided to launch on Product Hunt. Three weeks before launch I had 0 stars. I spent that time posting on Reddit, shipping features, and building an Obsidian plugin. Got to ~90 stars before touching PH. The launch amplified that momentum, it didn’t create it. I got lucky with my hunter. fmerian has 67K PH followers and hunted Mastra. He suggested laun...