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The discovery week thing sounds annoying until you have rebuilt the same feature three times for the same client. Now I do something similar and the ones who push back on it are usually the ones who…

"No code, no Figma, no repo setup" for the first week is the whole game. I learned the same lesson but from the opposite direction — I was the one building my own product and *still* skipped the hard…

Friday! Let's go! I got tired of building things no one wanted, and having to really struggle with marketing. Instead, I found things people want, and they find it.…

I like to make micro SaaS products and I got tired of remaking validation websites like waitlists landing pages and preorders pages etc, so I'm building a template founders bundle using Astro -…

Yes, but only for narrow, well-defined workstreams where value per run is high. Orchestrators like Paperclip make the plumbing easy, but the real constraints are model cost, repeatability, and…

ive just been using Marbilism - ive had mixed results! I'll start with the negatives first! I have used it primarily for marketing [contactjournalists.com](http://contactjournalists.com) \- my…

Agree on the heuristic. "Existing competitors doing $20-80K MRR" is one of the best proxies for demand at the pre-build stage. One caveat worth adding though: competition validates the category. It…

This resonates a lot. The “look for competition instead of avoiding it” shift is huge. I went through a similar change — early on I was trying to come up with something “unique”, but it mostly led…

the niche expertise part is what trips most people up when entering competitive markets imo. you can clone the features but if you don't deeply understand the users' workflows, you're just building a…

The 'zero competition means zero demand' pill is so hard to swallow, but you're spot on. If nobody is out there throwing money at a problem, it's probably not a real pain point, just a minor…

The voice-first capture part makes a lot of sense to me. That is a real pain point for technical founders. The part I’d question is whether the coolness of the workflow is hiding how much people…

I used Hotjar back in the day, but I see from the comments that there are plenty of new tools now. I was actually looking for a tool to do the same for my app. Do you have any good recommendations,…

put up an exit survey on the signup page. something dead simple like "what stopped you?" with 3 radio buttons (too expensive, didnt get it, need more info). i did that on mine and found out 70% just…

I got tired of rebuilding validation products websites so I'm making a bundle of fullstack Astro templates - [AstroStack ](https://astrostack.petipois.com)

the last login vs feature usage point is key. built a churn flow for a client last year and we tried last login first, response rate was terrible because loads of our inactive users had kept the app…

What do you use to automate your email workflow? I have been frustrated with Hubspot and other options in most cases.

personally I think #3 is the strongest: 'Talk while you build. Ship posts that sound like you.' it hits the core pain point for most builders -- we have the thoughts but the 'translation' into…

Honestly, #2 is the winner if you want people to actually understand the product: "Marketing that writes itself from how you actually talk." It solves the biggest pain point for most founders, which…

I like this post. Having passed through the cycle of unemployment, part-time consulting and re-employment while prepping my own venture, I have a few reflections from my journey: 1. Cash Flow…

ality is that big AI companies are building horizontal tools, not solving specific customer problems in specific markets. I left my growth role at a fintech to build my own thing, and yeah OpenAI…