Hey everyone! With the holiday season coming up, I'm curious how entrepreneurs and business owners are prepping for Christmas.

The rush can be a goldmine for sales, but it also means:

• dealing with slowdowns,

• staff vacations,

• and potential disruptions.

Daily standups used to feel useful.

Now they often feel like a slow, morning ritual where everyone repeats the same update as yesterday and politely says, no blockers.

The problem isn t the standup, it s the format.

Hey all,

A new feature from Ting that I thought had some learnings for everyone building in AI.

I am wondering if it's just me or if there are many more products to browse here on Producthunt every day since Vibe Coding joined the chat. I have been here for quite a few years and have seen lots of launches and hunts. But over the last one to two years, I have seen many more products being launched per day. So also more time needed for me to find good products.

Maybe the Producthunt staff could show statistics on product launches per day over the last six years. That would be really interesting. If the Producthunt staff are reading this, please provide us with the statistics. I would love to see them.

So, what are your thoughts on this? Do you think there has been an increase in good products, or just an increase in low-quality products resulting from Vibe Coding? Let's discuss it!

Have you ever left a meeting and thought:
Why did this need to be a meeting?

I feel like this happens more than any of us admit.

I keep seeing the same pattern across early-stage teams:

the MVP works until it really doesn t.

For many founders, the hardest part isn t getting something online
it s everything that comes after:
infra that cracks under real users
code that no dev wants to touch
rewriting the whole stack
AI-built projects no one can maintain
the moment you realize your prototype isn t a product

I keep seeing the same pattern across early-stage teams:

the MVP works until it really doesn t.

For many founders, the hardest part isn t getting something online
it s everything that comes after:
infra that cracks under real users
code that no dev wants to touch
rewriting the whole stack
AI-built projects no one can maintain
the moment you realize your prototype isn t a product

A lot of us think pivoting means tearing everything down and starting over or taking a hard left turn and never looking back

For us, we ve learned that a pivot was actually just a shift toward what we were actually building the whole time.

Hi PH members,

I hope you're well!

How to cut your time in meetings drastically...
In just three steps.
When I started to build Cadence, my main aim was (and still is) to make it as frictionless as possible. Keeping up to date with your team shouldn't be difficult or time consuming.
That's the problem I'm trying to fix!
Here's the only three steps you need.
1. Create your standup
2. Record your video from the dashboard
3. Watch as your team check in asynchronously, and stay up to date.

We're in the beta testing phase at the moment, and hoping to launch in the next few weeks! Follow me on here, or drop me a message on linkedin if you'd like to know more.

I wrote a list of all the things I learnt by becoming a first-time founder and leaving a role in big tech. It s more than I had when I started, so I hope it finds you at the right time:

Here we go:

• Getting going: Make sure you have a clear reason and those in your life are on same page. It is consuming!

• Unfair advantage: Founders aren t special, they just optimize to what makes them different (becomes important when raising too). It can be as simple as "worked in big company, saw firsthand the XXX problem"

• Getting started isn t easy: Make sure you consider the financial impact if leaving a job to get going Consider 12-18 months of no revenue or funding and if you can manage that

• Full-time or nothing: You can t do both a job and a startup. Investors won t back part-time conviction

• The pitch doc: Forces clarity, the problem, the customer, the market, and why you should solve it

• Raising money: Start with belief and momentum. An idea, a plan, and an MVP are enough to find your first backers

• Accelerators: Early programs like YC or Techstars can help refine your product and give you fuel to move faster. I have a longer list of Accelerators in case anyone needs it...?

• Foundations: Lock down your domain, name, trademarks, and structure early - future you will thank you

• Advisors: Find people who open doors and offer perspective, not control, ideally top % in their domain

• SaaS reality: You ll spend more on tools than you expect, it s part of building

• Building: Nothing s real until users touch it. Ship early, get feedback, iterate. It was extremely painful to hear users complain about our early bugs, but without that, we wouldn't be more reliable now...

• Co-founder: Pick someone with complementary skills and shared energy. You ll need each other

• Runway: Track every cost. I have a spreadsheet with every single one, also helps with tax reporting. Burn awareness is survival

• Energy: In a startup, you are the momentum. Working Saturday isn t working Saturday , it s pushing your dream forward

• Loved ones: Communicate early. The work will consume you; don t let it quietly consume them too

• Attention: Building is one thing. Getting noticed is harder. You ll code-switch between product, marketing, finance, and sanity

• What if you fail: Most startups do. But you ll come out sharper, braver, and more ready than ever

Hi everyone! As a student, I built FoodPlannerAI to make meal planning and workout tracking easy. You can now log your workouts, visualize your progress alongside meal plans, and get tailored suggestions from AI. What features or graphs would motivate you to stay healthy and consistent?

I m pretty sure most founders grow mainly on Twitter. Or LinkedIn.

But I ve realised it really depends on what kind of product you ve built.

If you re a fashion-focused founder, you probably grew up on Instagram or Pinterest.

Hey everyone!

Critic has hit 1,000 users in <12 weeks!

ok so weird backstory - ive been building products for startups for like 8 years now and i got obsessed with this question: why do products that KILL IT on product hunt just... die?

like were talking #1 product of the day, 1000+ upvotes, features in newsletters, the whole thing. and then 6 months later? dead or making $300/month

I don't know about you, but I feel like I've been working non-stop for years now, and I don't know how I'm able to do it. And it's often because I include activities in my daily life that make my work more enjoyable or break up the monotony.

For example:

I exercise every day (and listen to video casts about tech, business, and marketing in the background)

Hey everyone !

I ve been working on Cadence, a lightweight async video standup tool designed to replace daily meetings with quick 1-minute video updates.

Hey everyone,

LOTS going on. Google just turned a core part of our product into a feature - which is always fun - BUT, we saw it coming when they added it to Workspace not long ago. Inevitable, really, importance of keeping an eye on the market. The wave of AI scheduling assistants is as validating as it is like white-water rafting...!

Hi guys!

Over the past few years, I ve found that so much of remote work still revolves around real-time meetings even when they re not really necessary.

Recently, I posted here about how Y Combinator launched a program that allows young people to study at a university while building a product.

Many young people today idolise the likes of Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and other dropouts who didn t finish college but made it big with a breakthrough idea.