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Failed wantrepreneur here. Had quite a few attempts over the years, some got users, others didn't. None made any money. I feel like I'm getting to a stage where I'm pretty much giving up. I don't get excited about ideas, I just see the flaws in each. On the odd occasion when I do find one that interests me, I do a bit of digging and realize how it won't work. It's a weird feeling, like spinning wheels on ice. I want to take a break, but at the same time I feel anxious to do that because dee...

I was wondering if smaller startups do background checks? I also was wondering if I’d be able to join a tech startup with white collar felonies on my record? I’m looking for viable career options after serving my sentence. Wanted to know what career field would be best.

I'm struggling with something and would love to hear other people's experiences. I was involved very early with an organization and helped with things like marketing, event planning, and growing the community. Over time, there were disagreements about communication, decision-making, and roles. Looking back, I can see some mistakes I made, including moving too quickly on an idea that should have gone through the team first. Eventually, I left. The organization is still operating and seems t...

I have heard good things about ClickUp. I also know some others use Notion. This would mainly be for centralizing our shared documents, collaborations, communications, planning, etc. Interested to hear what tools you currently use and find effective.

​ This is not a job posting or a side project. I am building a real company and I am looking for someone who will take this journey as seriously as I do. We will be working together for a very long time. That means being completely honest with each other at all times, taking our roles seriously, and doing everything necessary to ensure the success of what we build together. I have worked in different stores and warehouses over the years; as a result, part of my job was wrapping pallet...

I ask this - because I've been in the community building space for ~20 years. Until recently, I was the head of growth at a startup where I built a developer community as a part of our GTM strategy. The idea was simple: Identify the pain points in our niche. Drill down to the lowest niche - that no one was talking about. Create an open community - and create QnA / Discussion to answer ultra-long tail queries. The queries that no one else bothered touching. We then built strategic backl...

NOTE: On rule 4, I'm NOT requisting feedback on this post, I'm asking where can I post to get feedback from. I've tried using both AskWomen and AskWomenNoCensor. AskWomen doesn't allow long body texts to describe the app. AskWomenNoCensor doesn't allow survey-like questions. Is there any sub or forum I can use to get anonymous feedback from women? I've already tried talking to people in person, and sharing Google Forms surveys with people I've met in real life. But it feels like peop...

I am curious if you have successfully working on startup that works in any art or entertainment. how did you find the audience where market is big market but dominated by few big companies? I am kinda thinking about making new writing tool, that helps in worldbuilding, Space-logic, physics laws, quantum physics, then timeline consistency, Histories to help you write better, so does sci-fi doesn't just feel zero logic. Although it just idea-phase, I want to work on this market so happy to wor...

SpaceX is set to officially go public on June 12, North American time. Its roadshow presentation has also been released. What caught my attention most was not its already mature businesses in launch services, Starlink, or human spaceflight, but the orbital computing business introduced from page 35 onward. In China’s venture capital community, this direction is usually referred to as space-based computing, or space compute. My judgment on this direction is clear: it is absolutely a highly prom...

Hey Guys, Actually, I have an idea, but I haven't done it because I would appreciate your suggestions. As we know, our Al chatbots always support with our chats, like "yes, you are saying right", what if it judges us on our decision! I think of this idea, but haven't executed it... This will work like I'll give the prompts to the user, and they will use them to the bots

I've been building an AI agent development team for a while now. Automating workflows, managing systems, the technical side has been solid and consistent. But at some point I realized the thing actually slowing growth wasn't technical at all. It was the business side. Finding the right person who thinks commercially, understands how to expand what's already working, and wants to genuinely build something together rather than just complete tasks. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. No...

This is something that annoys me much. Is there no way to get people to try my website without having to pay for ads? I built something that many would feel happy to be part of (hint: social media platform but against doomscrolling and enagagement baiting). I thought reddit would be a good place, but theres really no subreddit that lets you promote. hell, the website is capped at 1k purposefully, it's anti-scaling by nature. so I am not even looking to attract thousands. submitted ...

About 3 years ago, I was building a B2B workflow automation product. For 14 months, my entire focus was on building Every week we shipped new features. Every month we added something else. I was convinced that if we just kept improving the product, growth would eventually come It didn't We got some users, a few demos, some trial signups. But nobody was excited The painful realization came when I finally started looking closely at competitors. What shocked me wasn't that they had better produ...

Hello everyone, I am a 22 year old based out of India. I love building things and solving problems. I have built a few products before , launched them and had a few users to show for it but nothing fancy and definitely no monetary gain. But , I have come up with a new idea that I'm currently working on as I write this and that particular idea is probably one of my best ones yet. I am building an MVP for it and will release a waitlist for it as well to validate the product first but I need cap...

TL;DR: Paddle suddenly closed my account, admitted it was a mistake on their end, verified my documents, and then closed my account anyway without any new warnings. The Timeline: Pre-February 2026: Paddle asked me to switch from PayPal to Bank Transfer to keep payouts "running smoothly." Zero warnings about risk or closure. May 13: I received a sudden email stating my account was closed for "ignoring" a risk review I never received. May 14 (The Admission): ...

I’m trying to understand how platforms like Clay and Apollo run waterfall enrichment behind the scenes. For example, if a user pays around $99/month, but the platform is calling expensive data providers like People Data Labs, Dropcontact, Clearbit, Apollo, or similar sources, how do they make the unit economics work? I’m confused about the business model behind this. Enrichment credits seem expensive, so how do these platforms offer waterfall enrichment at a reasonable monthly price without ...

For those who have raised capital especially in the pre-seed/seed stage, how many doors did you approximately have to knock on to get your first yes? Well aware that the rule of thumb is to knock on a 100 doors in order to get your first yes. But I am curious to know if any of you got there more quickly, and importantly, what does your startup do (industry/problem it solves)? Asking because I'm curious did your startup's main focus/industry get you there more quickly? Or was it persuasiveness...

Hello everyone, I am a 22 year old based out of India. I love building things and solving problems. I have built a few products before , launched them and had a few users to show for it but nothing fancy and definitely no monetary gain. But , I have come up with a new idea that I'm currently working on as I write this and that particular idea is probably one of my best ones yet. I am building an MVP for it and will release a waitlist for it as well to validate the product first but I need cap...

For people in content/marketing/freelance writing - how do you keep writing style consistent across multiple clients or brands? Do you rely on style guides, past examples, or just adapt over time? And in teams, how do writers + editors stay aligned? Also curious: What part of this workflow is the most time-consuming or frustrating? Does consistency break down when you scale to more clients? Would love to hear how this works in real setups.

I feel like I’m always seeing post for people looking for cofounders. I don’t get it, why is it so hard for people to connect with others to build? It feels like the only stories I hear of successful cofounders is people who knew each other prior to building. Anyone will to share their cofounder journey the pros, cons, and lessons learned?

Found this post on LinkedIn yesterday. This founder Ranjeet Pratap Singh has shared the charts for his company. Surprisingly the chart also had his revenue and engagement numbers. The engagement numbers did look insane. He has thrown a challenge to find better numbers than his in any company. I googled and chatgpt but couldn’t find an answer. Can you think of an answer for a competitor? Also, do you think his numbers are genuine? 47% DAU/MAU 61.5% for Premium Subs 69m Time Spent per Userper...

Hello everyone, I am starting a new startup in the B2G space and therefore I am curious, if you have security guidelines in place and how do you enforce them? Because we tend to skip security sometimes as we focus on shipping and do not feel to have the time to also do security. Would be great to hear from Startups and Small and Medium sized companies. And also if you have some, how do you maintain them? When do you enforce them? So do you run security tests on commit or PR? Would be ...

I want to build a business, but I'm starting with little to no capital that is why I am looking for going into b2b service business first. I have a bachelor's and master's in computer science, so I can build websites, B2B SaaS, B2C SaaS, AI solutions, and more. I'm strong at my craft and can build end-to-end systems on my own. What I'm less sure about is how to market what I build and get it in front of potential customers. I'm on a work visa, so I can't be directly involved in running the bus...

I want to build a business, but I'm starting with little to no capital that is why I am looking for going into b2b service business first. I have a bachelor's and master's in computer science, so I can build websites, B2B SaaS, B2C SaaS, AI solutions, and more. I'm strong at my craft and can build end-to-end systems on my own. What I'm less sure about is how to market what I build and get it in front of potential customers. I'm on a work visa, so I can't be directly involved in running the bus...

Hello everyone, I am starting a new startup in the B2G space and therefore I am curious, if you have security guidelines in place and how do you enforce them? Because we tend to skip security sometimes as we focus on shipping and do not feel to have the time to also do security. Would be great to hear from Startups and Small and Medium sized companies. And also if you have some, how do you maintain them? When do you enforce them? So do you run security tests on commit or PR? Would be ...

A client we worked with recently announced a $1M funding round, and I can't stop smiling about it. As a Product Studio, you usually jump between projects, tickets, deadlines, and client calls. Most people only see the final product. What they don't see are the countless conversations, pivots, late-night debugging sessions, and hundreds of small decisions that slowly turn an idea into something real. When we first started this project it was just an idea. Over time, we built it piece by piece...

So i already made an app with Claude Code but thing is it still feels very AI and the feedback i got so far says my website is so similsr to every other vibe coded website. Plus not to mention AI id terrible at security i dont want to be charged for bots who leak my API keys lol. Because of that I actually want to learn coding but idk how, I already hsve foundation from GCSE (basically 11th grade) but its still not enough because im making an app to solve a zevere personal problem and maybe r...

I used to launch my products on PH back in the day when the platform was more focused on helping indie products getting exposure and some early users. Nowadays there are bunch of shady dudes praised by the PH moderation team as a top hunters who are helping you get the top 3 places of the day. The rules of the PH says that the hunters should not be paid for hunting product but obviously they do charge ton of money... They also allow them to hunt random products they find online like Anthro...

Im launching a travel app on product hunt tomorrow and I need some advice on how to get upvotes. How have you gotten upvotes for your app in the past. I don’t have a lot of friends with product hunt accounts so I can’t just go to them. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I genuinely feel weekly competitor analysis doesn’t work properly anymore. Markets are moving way too fast now compared to even 2 or 3 years ago. By the time most teams sit for their weekly review, competitors may have already changed campaigns, updated onboarding messaging, shifted positioning, launched new ads, started creator partnerships, changed pricing or pushed a completely different GTM strategy. And if you’re only checking competitors once every few weeks or once a month, you’re probabl...