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The builders shipping broken MVPs are eating lunch While the perfectionists are still choosing fonts Your flawless product doesn't exist yet, so it's worth exactlMore »

Tech Twitter makes you think everyone's shipping AI agents and raising millions Meanwhile most devs are still Googling "how to center a div" The survivorship bias is wild

Everyone's using AI to spam 10x more replies Congrats, you just automated killing your brand while real builders are winning with one authentic take. The tools work. Your strategy doesn't.

Your 47-step productivity system is the problem Ship > Optimize The best system is the one you actually use

Building in public isn't documenting every line of code It's sharing wins, losses, and lessons People follow humans, not dev logs

Cold emails with "I loved your work on X" when you never wrote about X AI is making everyone's outreach worse faster Personalization doesn't scale. That's the whole point.

Stop building features your users never asked for 3 rules that saved my SaaS: 1. Talk to users weekly 2. Build what they pay for, not what sounds cool 3. Ship it in 1 week or kill it Your backlog isn't a wish list

Launched my side project 6 months ago Revenue: $0 Learnings: Priceless I built what I wanted, not what people needed Now rebuilding from scratch with 10 user interviews first

Your landing page doesn't need animations It needs: • Clear problem statement • Obvious solution • Social proof • One CTA Fancy design won't fix unclear messaging

Just hit $10k MRR 🎉 What actually worked: ❌ Perfect product ❌ Viral content ❌ Paid ads ✅ SEO ✅ Customer support ✅ Word of mouth Boring stuff wins

Developer confession: I spent 3 months building a perfect API Users wanted a CSV export button Sometimes the "hacky" solution is the right one

The best code is code you didn't write Use libraries. Copy from Stack Overflow. Use AI. Use templates. Your users don't care how you built it, they care that it works

This chart shows the harsh reality of startup survival rates 📊 Year 1: 90% alive Year 5: 50% alive Year 10: 30% alive Your competition isn't other startups, it's time

New UI design for our dashboard 🎨 Went from cluttered to clean Key changes: • Removed 60% of buttons • Doubled white space • One primary action per screen Users are loving it

Behind the scenes of our product photoshoot 📸 Spent $5k on professional photos Users preferred our iPhone mockups Lesson learned: "Good enough" beats perfect + late

Unpopular opinion: You don't need to wake up at 5am You don't need a morning routine You don't need to hustle 24/7 You need to work smart and protect your mental health Productivity porn is killing more startups than lack of funding

Reminder: Twitter success ≠ Business success I know people with: • 100k followers, $0 revenue • 1k followers, $100k MRR Build your business, not your personal brand

Your first 100 users won't come from Product Hunt They'll come from: • Cold DMs • Reddit comments • Support forums • Your network Manual > Automated for the first 100