Rajiv Ayyangar

This is a fantastic rundown - Thanks for sharing all of this! I've featured your post to highlight it more to the community. I love the reference to Hick's Law :) Fitts' law gets plenty of love, but people tend to forget Hick's. Question: I've been running into many of the challenges you've mentioned here trying to debug background push notifications in a project I started in Replit. You...

Y’all have been busy! Curious how you did 2. (Sharper insights).

@iambetaful frequently gets fully-featured products out in a day or less. I suspect sorcery. But seriously: The ability to get a viable product out and in the hands of users extremely quickly is incredibly valuable in the early days. Sure you can do a lot of discovery interviews and dig as you're talking with users but for some types of products especially experience based products like...

@Fantastical famously doesn't have android (that I know of). Many apps get extremely far before they choose to do Android. It's just a different market. That said, I bet there are lots of things you can do on Android that you can't do on iOS - for example launchers like @aviate (one of the first startups I worked on).

I do think generally speaking, AI has helped developers far more than it's helped non-developers. But here's what I'm noticing personally as a non-developer:- AI helps me build apps that I couldn't build otherwise. Although very quickly I became ambitious and it's actually quite a headache to build more complex apps right now. - I'm using various LLMs to search instead of Google about...

Which will help you learn more? The trade-off is that demos tend to talk to fewer people, but they're higher intent, and you learn more from them. For a free trial, you might be able to see a lot more users go through your funnel and use the platform, and you'll see what they do, but it will be harder to understand why.

For my last startup @Tandem , we had a user interview with a high-end hair salon that was using Tandem to run their internal operations. They had a remote receptionist on a laptop screen who would greet the guests and use Tandem to then teleport back to the room where the hairstylists were waiting and tell them to meet the guests. After the haircut, the receptionist would show up on an iPad to...

reallybouncyballs.com - I felt like there was a gap in the market for selling extremely bouncy balls...haven't executed on it...yet

A friend had this idea at a dinner inspired by the old "Let me google that for you" website. When I found the domain (hereletmeaithatforyou.com) was available, I had to build it. I hope you enjoy using this with your AI Luddite friends and late-adopter parents! Hopefully it's educational and not too insulting :)

There's always going to be a segment of users who doesn't want what you're building, and no number of features is going to win them over. If they don't have strong interest in any new features from you, then you can't keep them. I would focus on two user segments:People who love the productPeople who resemble people in the first group (i.e., people who see the same benefits but don't love your...

ooooh excited for this!

I love this direction, Joshua. In the early days, people need honesty more than they need support. The goal is to understand what customers want. The best-case scenario for launching is getting a lot of people who love the product, but the second-best case scenario is getting a lot of people who are trying to use the product and telling you what they're frustrated by so you can make the product...

I saw that nobody had submitted a Pi-related challenge, so I built one with Replit! Fun fact: I once beat John Conway in a Pi recitation contest at Princeton. Unfortunately he then proceeded to beat me in a pie eating contest. I did win a nifty clock that tells time in radians...sadly now lost.Have a go at the challenge. No cheating! Winner gets a shout out from me!

Nice work launching on Pi Day! Forgive the naive question, but how does this stack up with RAG and other approaches people are using to improve models right now?

Are there examples of major platforms that have integrated Grammarly or have a partnership with Grammarly? I tend to think that integrating grammar checking into a platform makes user-generated content less authentic. Then again, as a native English speaker, maybe this is a blind spot for me. For example, would you actually want Grammarly to be integrated into Product Hunt?

Followed you! Looking forward to seeing the launch! The real question is, what are you going to do to beat Bucket? :)

My initial reaction is that I don't know what your product is good at or what you made it for specifically. You list six different use cases, and of those, the only use case that I'm aware of that has apps that work really well is Notes, and you didn't describe how your notes are used. What does it mean to "manage them better"? What did you try before that didn't work that led you to building...

I spent some time building a mobile app to give you clarity on your finances before Tandem. It's a tough space. In my mind, there are two problems to overcome:Behavior change: Does this actually cause you to change behavior in a way that's good for you?Stress: People who aren't stressed about money don't need an app. Until they get to the point where you're managing a complex investment...