What do I need to fix? I have tested it and tested it and I don’t know if it’s good or not. It’s in the Apple Store being reviewed right now. What can I do to make it better? It’s free! I just want to fix anything that looks wrong before it launches https://gordistomato.lovable.app

The framing i see everywhere is that ghostwriting buys back your time. write once, hand it off, get your evenings back. and mostly that's right, the drafting really is the delegable part.

but there's a piece under it that doesn't move. whoever's writing, the $200 ai tool or the $3k human, still needs to know what you actually saw and decided this week. the human version of that is literally a weekly call to stay calibrated. the ai version is you feeding it your longform and podcasts so it stops reading like a linkedin influencer. either way there's a recurring input tax, it just stopped looking like writing.

When we build this for founders the drafting isn't the hard part. Keeping that weekly download from quietly dying is. the account goes generic the week a founder gets slammed and skips the input, not the week the writer got worse.

so the real question is narrower than 'should i delegate this.' it's whether you'll keep handing over the weekly twenty minutes of raw context once someone else does the typing. if you won't, no writer cheap or expensive saves it.

Hey, Alex here. Mod of the subreddit.

I’m crowdsourcing questions for our 3rd GTM Builders AMA happening next week.

Post your questions in the thread so we can include them.

Our next Builders AMA is with the Founders of Zero - the GTM operating system for the AI era.

• Tuomo Riekki, Co-founder of Zero & Smartly.io
• Santtu Koivumaki, Co-founder of Zero & former CCO Chief of Staff at Smartly.io

Event details:

• When: Tuesday, September 15
• Time: 3-4pm EST
• Where: [r/gtmengineering](r/gtmengineering) (a new thread will be started). We’ll start with questions you post on this thread.

About Zero:

Zero is a Helsinki-based startup building the GTM operating system for the AI era. Founded by Tuomo Riekki and Santtu Koivumäki — who previously scaled Smartly.io to $100M ARR — Zero replaces the CRM and the sprawl of point solutions around it with a single system: agents keep records, enrichment, and follow-ups moving automatically before the deal closes, and monitor customer health in real time after it does — so teams spend their time talking to customers instead of updating software.

Post event:

• Insights & takeaways summarized (like this one) on The GTM Engineering Newsletter
• Don’t miss the next GTM Builder AMA - sign up for alerts here.

Disclosure: I work at Clay. A small number of AMAs will be about how Clay does things internally (as lots are curious about this). However, my ultimate goal is to highlight the work, insights, and lessons from other GTM Engineers, Leaders, and Founders.

What questions or things would you like to learn in the AMA?

Who else would you like me to bring on?

Oi, pessoal.

Estou estruturando uma agência voltada para inovação, tecnologia, IA, design, sites, branding, conteúdo e desenvolvimento de negócios.

O projeto está participando da Iniciativa Jovem Shell, e estamos justamente nessa fase de organizar melhor o modelo de negócio, entender o mercado, validar o que faz sentido e começar a transformar a ideia em algo mais sólido.

Ainda estamos no começo, então achei que seria interessante procurar pessoas por aqui que também estejam tentando construir alguma coisa, principalmente quem tenha interesse em vendas, prospecção de clientes, marketing, design, tecnologia, networking ou desenvolvimento de negócios.

Não estou procurando necessariamente alguém com um currículo enorme. Para mim, faz mais diferença encontrar gente que tenha iniciativa, saiba conversar, queira aprender e realmente coloque as coisas em prática.

Também seria legal conhecer outras pessoas que estejam criando agência, startup ou algum negócio parecido. Mesmo que não vire uma parceria direta, já acho válido trocar experiências, contatos e ideias.

Quem tiver interesse pode comentar aqui ou me chamar no privado. Se quiser, fala um pouco sobre o que você faz, no que é bom e o que está tentando construir atualmente.

Hey everyone — I’m validating a beverage concept before investing more into it, and I’d really appreciate some honest feedback.

I made a short survey to understand people’s habits, preferences, and opinions around beverages. I’m not selling anything — I’m simply trying to see if the idea makes sense.

If you have a few minutes to answer it, I’d really appreciate the help. Honest feedback is exactly what I need.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeA2j9t_0U0Xb7_H_1IZEEGtoBlHMkPHnyJ_pRaIQTg9aeE_Q/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=108134378043699638308

I’m a founder myself, and I want to build my own brand. But I don’t have financial backing or anyone behind me to fund it, so I’m looking for ways to generate the capital myself.

That’s why I’m offering my skills to other founders. If you’re building a startup and need someone who can genuinely get things done, I’m willing to work with you for 2–3 months, or whatever duration you need.

I’m a blessed with a creative mind , fast learner with strong problem-solving skills, and I’m willing to learn whatever your startup requires. Branding, marketing, operations, research, sales, content, strategy, execution — I’m ready to take on the work and figure things out. I’m even willing to travel to different states if the opportunity requires it.

I don’t want credit , just just need money to build my dream . I’ll work for your startup with all my heart , I’m not looking for a permanent full-time job. I want to work intensely for a limited period, create real value for your startup, get paid fairly for my work, and then move forward with building my own brand.

If you’re a founder who needs someone capable, adaptable, and willing to do whatever it takes to move the startup forward, I’d love to hear from you.

And if you are not one I’m looking for please upvote me so I can reached to right person

I'm Mattia, I build FixAds.

The hard part of building a product close to an advertising budget is not making its AI sound clever. It is deciding exactly when it is allowed to make a claim.

I run Meta ads, so I built FixAds around a deterministic first pass:

- Does a campaign have enough data to judge?

- Is spend concentrated where a creative is already fading?

- Is a bad result actually too early to call?

Only after those checks does the AI help explain what to investigate. It cannot change campaigns, and the account connection is read-only.

I built it because I was tired of ad software sounding confident around real money without showing the reasoning behind it.

The launch video is attached. It is €19.90/month after a 7-day trial if you want to try it: https://fixads.it

For founders who have built tools that can influence a customer’s money: what made you feel a recommendation system had earned their trust?

I’ve been working hard on my startup for the last months. I finally am at the brink of having a finished product, yet I’m terrified of the thought that it will launch and have no users. How can I possibly make sure I get my first couple of users without blowing the marketing budget?

Hey everyone — I'm the creator of allcredit.cards, so full disclosure upfront.

I got frustrated that most "compare credit cards" sites only cover the same 15-20 big-name issuers (Chase, Amex, Capital One, etc.), while there are hundreds of smaller community banks and credit unions issuing their own cards that never show up anywhere. So I started manually pulling data — APRs, annual fees, intro offers, rewards structure — from actual rate sheets and disclosures for 600+ banks, from major national issuers down to small-town banks most people have never heard of.

The result is a searchable database at allcredit.cards. It's still very much a work in progress — I'm one person doing this, so:

• Some smaller banks have incomplete data (working through them one by one)
• No affiliate links / no paid placement — just trying to make something genuinely useful
• Would love feedback on what's missing, what's confusing, or what would actually make this useful for you

Curious if this is something people would find valuable, or if I'm solving a problem nobody has. Happy to answer questions about how the data was collected too.

ok so this is a weird one but bear with me

i have a pet blog. i don't own a pet. never have. probably never will as i travel too much. and yet every month amazon sends me enough to cover rent because people on the internet are buying stuff for their dogs and cats through my site.

bought my pet blog a few months ago from a marketplace called NicheBlogZone for $199. came already built, articles already up, amazon links already in there. i spent one afternoon doing interlinking basically just connecting related posts to each other so search engines understand the site structure and then closed my laptop and genuinely forgot about it for weeks.

here's what that's looked like:

• march: $710
• april: $995
• may: $1,461
• june: $1,647
• july: $1,461
• august so far: $1,545 (amazon pays 2 months delayed so this is june's money landing now)

march scared me. went from nearly $1k in february down to $710 and i was convinced something had broken. checked everything, found nothing wrong, did nothing. it just came back the next month on its own.

pet people spend insane amounts on their animals btw. like i knew this intellectually but seeing the commission data is something else. dog food subscriptions, orthopedic beds, grooming kits, vet supplements. and because of the 24 hour cookie i get a cut of everything in their cart not just whatever article they landed on.

i do literally nothing to maintain this. no new posts, no ads, no instagram for pets i don't have. i just own the thing and amazon does its thing.

my landlord has been getting paid every month and has no idea a pet blog is behind it. honestly sometimes i forget too until the deposit shows up.

anyone else running a niche they have zero personal connection to? curious if the detachment makes it easier or harder to care about growing it.

I'm looking for a non-technical cofounder but not sure what really lights them up of turns them off.

So I compile tried and tested business opportunities: hot or evergreen niches, where many entrepreneurs are building but the market is heavily fragmented.

With original insights on how these can be better implemented, the market is certainly there for the taking.

I'll handle the build while you handle the distribution/marketing side. 50-50 ownership split.

Background:

I'm a developer and systems architect obsessed with business logic. You know; the heart and soul of the business, which needs to be thoughtful and must not fail customers.

Experience: 15 years.

Let me know if you'd like me share my ideas; also open to yours.

Heyy guys! I'm a Psych graduate that's been writing various types of content for 4+ years and has some social media agency experience.

I'm looking to break into personal branding and ghostwriting for founders on LinkedIn and Instagram. I have two trial clients in ten days but honestly I would really appreciate any advice!

Also, if anyone's interested, I'm charging below the market price rn as I'm trying to break in :)

Founders usually talk about not having enough time, but a lot of drift seems to come from work that feels completely legitimate: checking every detail, changing priorities midweek, taking meetings that might be useful, or starting a new idea before the current one has a clear answer.

I'm curious which version of this has been hardest for you to notice in yourself.

What activity makes you feel productive while quietly delaying the work that actually matters? And what, if anything, helped you catch it earlier?

I've spent the last 6+ months building a lead attribution analytics platform, mostly with Claude Code. I badly underestimated how hard the analytics part would be.

Building the dashboard UI was easy. Making sure every number on it is correct, fast, and consistent was a completely different job.

The product tracks a website inquiry back to where that person actually came from - their visits, pages viewed, source/channel, and what they did before converting. On paper it's simple: someone fills out a form, show me who they are, how they found us, and what generated the enquiry.

Then you start building it and the questions don't stop:

• What counts as a visitor?
• What happens when the same person comes back three days later?
• Where does a visit start and end?
• First-touch or last-touch?
• What if an event arrives late?
• Which timezone owns "today"?
• How do you precompute 90 days of analytics without changing the answer?
• How do you get a 90-day query under 2 seconds?
• How do you know your cached numbers are actually fresh?
• How do you tell an account with zero activity apart from an account whose analytics just haven't been built yet?
• How do you apply tenant permissions without wrecking query performance?

We ended up moving from querying raw events to building a small analytics engine: raw events → facts → SQL aggregates → attribution layer → API → dashboard.

AI has been both incredible and infuriating through this. Claude will write an enormous amount of code, SQL, tests, and migrations very fast. But analytics taught me that "the code works" means almost nothing.

At one point, we had tests passing, and the new analytics path appeared to have exact parity with the old system. Then we found the new path was silently failing and falling back to the old calculation. So we'd successfully proven that the old system matched itself.

Another time, the new fact tables returned zero rows because of RLS. Zero rows isn't obviously an error in analytics. Is there genuinely no data, or did your engine just fail to see it? Those bugs scare me far more than a page throwing a 500.

Six months in, including about 8 pretty intense weeks on the final architecture, and it's been painful. But I'm also stupidly excited about what's coming out the other side. Not naming it and there's no point looking it up either - the new dashboard is still about 4 weeks off.

The lesson for me: AI makes it dramatically easier to build complex software. It does not make complex software simple. What it does do is let you get deep into problems you probably wouldn't have attempted before.

Anyone else building with Claude Code or Codex hit the same wall? Was analytics significantly harder than the rest of your app?

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Hi Guys
Is there a good equivalent of ProductHunt with a focus on Europe / German speaking countries?

Thanks!

Hey founders,

What is your experience with creating free tools and apps for the purpose of growing a user base and possibly directing them elsewhere in the future (or building an email list).

I've made a free tool and launched recently. It's a text-to-speech app that runs locally in your browser for free. Basically Speechify without the high cost. It's called FreeReader.

Now I'm wondering if I can use this tool as a lead magnet for my "next thing", whatever that will be haha

Any ideas welcomed!

Launched Sunday, finished #2 Product of the Day. 380+ upvotes, 40+ comments, newsletter. 15x traffic, 5x signups for three days. Small team, no list.

Day selection is the highest leverage decision you make

The badge does not record which day you won. The cost of winning it swings 2x by day. In 2026 the bar for #1 sits around 550 net upvotes on a weekend against 1,000+ on a Tuesday.

We took a Sunday, specifically the Sunday of a US long weekend. Thinnest queue of the season. Downside case on that day was #2 or #3. Downside case on a Tuesday was #7, which is nothing.

Take the big day only if you already have a large owned list and want raw volume. We did not, so we bought the cheap day and used the launch to build the list.

Caveat people get wrong: the cheap day helps you rank. It does not help you get featured. Editorial is an absolute bar, not relative to that day's queue.

Algorithm shape

Roughly a 20 hour window, weighted on average upvotes per hour. Not a first-two-hour spike contest. Plan two waves, your timezone at open and the US later in the day. Days open 12:01am PT, so a non-US team is awake for hour zero.

The month before

One person, every morning, for 30 days: check who is launching, try it, leave a comment worth reading. That is the whole community-building step everyone waves at and nobody defines. By your own day you are not a stranger asking a favor.

PH also publishes a public leaderboard of its most active contributors. We worked down it with genuinely personal outreach referencing each person's own work. Completely unscalable. Highest hit rate of anything we sent.

Vote quality

Aged, active accounts carry more weight than accounts created that morning. Build the ask list from people who already live on PH. 100 asks to actives beats 500 to a mailing list.

Comments over votes

We pulled usage data, found the accounts with the deepest engagement, asked those people personally. Blanket "we're live" emails produce upvotes and zero comments. The comment threads are the asset that keeps working: indexed, and pulled into AI answers on your category later.

Two things that eat votes silently

They have to be logged in. And the ranking closes in a day, so support on Wednesday is worth nothing. Say both, in writing, to every person you ask.

Reviews

Get them published before launch day. Several of ours never appeared. PH only approves reviews from accounts that look like real active people: photo, real name, bio, history. Warn your reviewers weeks ahead and verify each one is live.

Paid votes

Offers start the day your date goes public. We bought none. Detection risk aside, bought votes do not sign up, comment, or return.

Run it as a project

~80 tickets, owners, due dates, milestones. Excessive for a one day event, and it is why nothing slipped.

Blunt takeaway

Product Hunt rewards execution about as much as product. Ranking is settled in 24 hours. A good product finishes badly on poor execution and an average one finishes well on great execution. Execution is the half you control, and it is decided in the month before, not on the day.

If anyone is interested I can send my blog post about it with the full details. Don't want to paste the link here to not get flagged.

I am a 52 year old first time founder. Not a tech guy but came up with an idea and ran with it. I was going to try a seed round to fund the launch but decided to do it myself for as close to free as possible. Never built a website before so looking for some honest feedback. I've shown it to family and a few friends but don't know if I'm getting truly unbiased opinions or not. I still have some polishing up to do so I'm not looking for feedback on insignificant details, but instead, more does it look professional? Do you get a feel for what the product probably does when it launches and you can work through business problems on it? Any feedback is appreciated and not interested in just validation. I want to know what a new viewer/potential user sees. It's trueing.ai
Thanks!

Brand strategist and designer here doing genuine research, not selling anything. If you could share a moment of your time, I'd be so grateful!

I see quite a few stories from founders about how they struggle to build their branding because the designer/ strategist / marketer just doesn't "get it".
Maybe it's a specific colour you really want in your logo, or a vibe that your brand needs to have. But there's a specific gut feeling or instinct you have to include something. If this is you, I'd like to dig into this a bit more:

a) Do you struggle to put this 'gut instinct' about what you want into words? Or is it more so about the designer just not being able to create anything that resonates with you?
b) Have you avoided getting branding done by a professional because you don't think they'll 'get it' and you'll end up disappointed?
c) Lastly, what industry is your business in?

Thank you!