... Zero Funding Seventeen months ago, Coupyn was nothing but an idea scribbled in my head. Today, it s a living, breathing platform with over 100,000 companies listed, real users joining daily, and a foundation strong enough to support millions more. I didn t have investors. I didn t have a team. I didn t even have a startup budget. What I had was a computer, a text editor, and a stubborn belief that one person could build something lasting ... ... handed over. What s Next Coupyn is still young. We ve crossed milestones over 1,000 users, 100,000+ companies listed, and steady daily sign-ups but the journey is just starting. The vision is simple Keep scaling until millions

... your head: What would you do to launch this product? In that month and a half, we spun up an entire marketing operation and did a huge drop on October 1, 2024. It was actually pretty successful. We got millions of views and hit #1 on Product Hunt for the day and the week. Two months before that, we weren't even a consumer software company. By January, we were seeing long posts on LinkedIn and X about ... ... product had changed people s lives. We also saw ~20% of our users convert to paid (vs

... Yesterday I saw the headline that Perplexity tried to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B . One move and they got free coverage in BBC, NYT, Business Insider, and basically every major tech outlet. That s tens of millions in equivalent PR value without spending it. Just create a news story with a slightly absurd twist and boom, you re front-page material. So I m wondering: what are some other wild tactics you ve seen (or used) to grab attention ... ... Examples that come to mind: Sending a pizza to every journalist in your industry with a QR code on the box leading to your launch page. Renting a billboard in front of your competitor

... months ago, I was just another self-taught developer frustrated with YouTube learning. Now I'm about to launch Notetube to the Product Hunt community. The butterflies are real! This launch could be a game-changer for reaching the millions of people who struggle with the same YouTube learning problems I faced. If you've ever: Forgotten everything from a YouTube tutorial within days Had your learning scattered across random playlists Got stuck with no one to ask for help ... ... know exactly why Notetube exists. I'm asking for one small favor: Hit "Notify Me" on my  coming soon page so you don't miss my launch. Your support could help me reach #1 and change how millions

... Notetube transforms YouTube from passive entertainment into an active learning system with organized collections, progress tracking, AI video chat, comprehensive AI notes and much more. But here's what really drives me I'm envisioning something much greater here. Millions of people from all walks of life learn from YouTube daily - students in developing countries, career changers, curious minds, people who can't afford traditional education. With the right tools, we can unlock so much human potential that's currently ... ... alone. I'm launching soon and would be incredibly grateful if you could visit our coming soon page and hit "Notify Me" . This isn't just about building another app - it's about democratizing quality education and helping millions

... Michael - co-founder of HipHub platform. We are based in Moscow and try to innovate our traditional ways to gain access to knowledge of the community. There are so many courses nowadays, and companies in Russia make hundreds of millions from it. But it's all so expensive and long, so it is hard to retain attention and interest to these courses. We've redesigned the approach and allowed anyone to create their own hub to share the knowledge they ...

... Michael - co-founder of HipHub platform. We are based in Moscow and try to innovate our traditional ways to gain access to knowledge of the community. There are so many courses nowadays, and companies in Russia make hundreds of millions from it. But it's all so expensive and long, so it is hard to retain attention and interest to these courses. We've redesigned the approach and allowed anyone to create their own hub to share the knowledge they ...

... million of you, Five years ago today, we released the first version of Scribe on Product Hunt. As they say, if you're not embarrassed by your first product, you didn't do it right and believe me, looking back now, we are deeply embarrassed. That first version wasn't even internet-enabled! It saved locally on your desktop and was as clunky as they come. But we put it out there for free because we needed ... ... halls of Scribe. You're the reason we kept going. Your feedback drove our furious shipping pace as we tried to build something truly worthy of your enthusiasm. Today, we're proud to say we're now empowering four million

... attention. I wrote my most viral post in 10 minutes while having morning coffee. You never know what will take off. Don't overthink it, just start writing and posting. 2. Don't be afraid to help competitors Some people say building in public I only give my competitors

... users. Don't blindly use the suggested landing page copy recommended by Bolt. Iterate separately with ChatGPT or Clause based on the persona you're targeting. Bolt also tends to assume your app is already in production with "millions of users" - so you might want to make double check your copy to make sure it's not not blatantly lying. Adding a Blog to Your Landing Page For scalable blogging on your landing page, I've experimented with solutions like ... ... fairly loaded topic. Analytics & Building Your Own Admin Tools Easily integrate Google Analytics by simply inputting your measurement ID into Bolt for basic user insights. Remember to ask it to track key events across your application. Alternatively

... continue learning. You need to sit in the front of the room and grow. It might take years! I am nothing special. I just invested the time and money towards what I am passionate about. I have 3.5 million followers and I make millions

... posthog, the toolkit for building successful products - a single platform for building products, talking to users and shipping new features. we are 5 years old, have 140k customers and are making multiple $10s of millions of revenue. no question's too weird. we're super transparent so will probs overshare anyway. plg? fundraising? yc? working with your cofounder? why we publicly document all our bad decisions? our allergy to enterprise sales? we've an open book so ask us anything ... ... have 14 ish products, and we're working on adding way more. we've cut pricing when everyone else increases it. we've hired more people into support and they're all pretty technical. developer brand is getting weirder vs

... networks. But no matter how much funding we secured or how many doctors we recruited, the core issue remained the same: charitable efforts don t scale the way they need to . We could raise money to help hundreds, but millions were still left behind. We could find the best doctors for a few, but the system remained overwhelmed, and quality healthcare was still inaccessible to most. I remember how incredibly exhausting it was to raise millions

... Recently, I started reading more about digital culture and its impact on society. Just finished Kevin Kelly's seminal essay, 1000 True Fans . In short, Kevin says that to be a successful creator you don t need millions. You don t need millions