As a brand, you receive feedback. Either through customer/tech support, online in reviews, or users refer to your name on social networks.

Let's face it, negative feedback spreads easily and is shared more often because people don't often talk about positive things.

Uncomfortable pattern I keep seeing: the products with the worst UX debt are usually the ones that found product-market fit fastest. They ignored "best practices," shipped ugly-but-functional features, and got users anyway.

Then they scale and everything breaks. That's when they hire me.

Chipmaker Nvidia announced this week it will be investing up to $100 billion (with a B) in OpenAI to help it build out its computing power. This follows OpenAI s move earlier this month to buy $300B in computer power from Oracle.

I've recently seen more cities that are growing teams and building offices that seem to be growing rapidly? 
SF seems like it's one of many hubs that have been growing in the recent years. I'm trying to see which cities people are looking into and where people think will be the next startup hub? 
I've seen mixed opinions on cities like New York and Toronto but would love to hear what other people think as well!

Some companies are love brands for me, and I d like to support them. Others I see growing, and I d love to ride the wave. :D

Do you have any companies you d like to invest in, but that don t have a public offering yet? Which ones?

Most businesses and startups rely on VCs.

I would briefly write it as follows:

Not long ago, content itself was the differentiator.

If you could afford to write more blogs, publish more case studies, or refresh your website more often than competitors, you had the upper hand.

AI flipped that equation.

I m in the process of launching a new ecommerce product and I m trying to figure out where to focus my initial efforts. Should I prioritize SEO, invest in paid ads, or spend more time on community building (socials, niche groups, forums) to get traction?

People love to obsess over age. Every time a teenager ships something, the headline is: Look, they re only 17! It s become a whole genre of founder story.

But honestly it s the least interesting part.

I keep hearing that freemium is "over" in 2025.
Users expect everything free, and conversion rates are tanking with limits. But then I look around and see some of the biggest SaaS wins built entirely on freemium- Dropbox, Slack, Calendly, and even Notion to some extent. These aren't ancient relics, they're still dominating their spaces. But yes, they started way back in the day.

So what's the real story here? Are we just seeing survivorship bias, or is freemium actually harder to execute than people realize?

I'm building a scheduling tool myself (Like Calendly Pro, but with major improvements) and wrestling with this exact question. My gut says keep the core free to lower barriers and let the product speak for itself. But the freemium is dead chorus is loud (it's a noise on X to be honest)

Are we overthinking it, or has the freemium playbook actually changed in ways that matter?

Every day, I notice fewer people sharing their projects here.

A couple of months ago, build in public felt unstoppable: everyone was posting updates, numbers, roadmaps. Now? The hype seems to be fading or maybe makers are just shipping quietly.

I keep running into this problem as an indie hacker:

I need an audience to get feedback.

I need feedback to grow an audience.

Classic catch-22.

We all have plenty of ideas all the time, and we might be convinced that one of them will be really successful, so we start working on it. But maybe it's just what we think, and our thoughts don't match reality.

I know that, once you launch your product, you can ask for feedback from early adopters, but what do you do before launching? Do you use some specific tools to validate your idea or ask for feedback offline/online?

Imagine there is a website which you can just copy and paste the description of job and Upload/paste you resume and it will give you insights like what missing in your resume, what you have, what you can improve and provide 30 day actionable plan. So that you can know why you are not getting calls from interviewers. And it will provide results within a minute.
So, Will you use it?
And, What other things would you like to have in this application?
Please Provide your thoughts! Thanks

Hello everyone.

I hope I can get some advices here. I am developer, a solo developer. I make my project, snapencode.com. It is a self-host video platform. The idea is you buy license one time, for lifetime. No more monthly pay. You own it.

The building part, is fun for me. I love code. The logic.

I have a lot ideas on my list, but only one is in active development right now. Part of me wants to build them all at once, but it's not realistic.

How do you prioritize? How do you choose what's worth your focus?

Of course, there are the basic methods, looking at trends, market research, asking friends, asking producthunt... :)

I ve been wondering about this a lot lately.... If LLMs keep pulling from blogs, news platforms (and obviously other content sources) -> this results in ad revenue keeps shrinking for most folks reliant on this source of income -> what is the pivot for these creators?

My wife runs a food blog that s heavily ad traffic based. Right now her niche (make based content seems to be some of the safest on the internet.. likely way worse for someone with an information based blog) hasn t been hit too hard, but it feels like something that could change quickly.
That s got us thinking about what a pivot could look like.

I go back and forth on this a lot.

As someone working on branding myself online as I build, I ve shared some missteps as they happened: marketing experiments that went nowhere, outreach that genuinely just flopped and weirdly, those posts got way more engagement than when I only shared wins.

I ve been creating online surveys for pilot studies and market validation, and honestly... making the survey isn t the hard part. Distribution is.

I ve just launched something I built to solve a real pain I faced (opensecatlas.com) . It s a curated directory of free/open-source tools that I wish existed when I needed it. I used vibe coding to build and refine it quickly, and I m proud of what came out.

But here s the problem: I don t have a big following. No established X/Twitter, no strong LinkedIn presence, no personal brand. I see other makers and influencers launch something and immediately get thousands of visitors. For me, even though the product is real and solves a problem, it feels invisible.

I m stuck between two questions: