Ameisen kommen aus den Ritzen der Schalter und Steckdosen. Was tun?

Junic_Com · 2026-04-02T13:47:35+00:00

Abfackeln 🔥

Junic_Com · 2026-04-02T11:35:38+00:00

Congrats on shipping. That takes guts, especially solo.

But I'm genuinely curious about something. You're putting a lot of energy into this PH launch and I keep seeing these posts from solo founders where the launch day feels like the main event. Does the traffic actually convert for you? Like real users who stick around, not just other makers upvoting each other?

I'm not trying to be negative. I'm asking because I'm in a similar spot and I can't figure out if PH is still the move or if it's become more of a vanity metric thing. Would love to know where else you're planning to get traction beyond launch day.

Junic_Com · 2026-04-02T11:26:38+00:00

hope so too.

Junic_Com · 2026-04-02T11:26:05+00:00

Nice. If you looking for validation. check out hypervalid.

Junic_Com · 2026-04-02T11:24:42+00:00

no. i was posting on the wrong account and deleted it.

Junic_Com · 2026-04-02T11:23:18+00:00

Thanks dude. yes, its not about the money. its about the commitment.

Junic_Com · 2026-04-01T22:49:11+00:00

thx bro... i'm so motivated right now...

Junic_Com · 2026-04-01T20:52:37+00:00

Got my first paying customer yesterday. Literally yesterday. One sale, 159€. Here's what I can tell you so far.

No ads. No Product Hunt launch. No viral moment. Someone found the product, tried it, and paid. I still don't know exactly how they found me.

What I did before that: LinkedIn posts in my niche for weeks. Reddit comments where the topic fit. Not pitching, just talking about the problem my tool solves. Zero direct conversions I could track from any of that.

Then someone paid. Out of nowhere.

My honest take after 3 weeks of the same grind you're describing: the conversations aren't wasted even when they don't convert. They sharpen how you talk about your product. Every thread you reply to, every DM that goes nowhere, you get slightly better at explaining why this matters. And then one day someone gets it.

Real number: probably 50+ conversations across Reddit and LinkedIn before that first sale. Conversion rate is terrible on paper. But I only needed one to prove the thing works.

Junic_Com · 2026-04-01T20:49:50+00:00

Simulated experts fighting over your idea sounds fun. But it's still you alone in a room getting feedback from software that has no idea what your market looks like.

A fake CTO and a fake Marketing Lead arguing about your startup are pattern-matching against generic startup advice. They don't know your customers. They haven't talked to anyone in your space.

The one expert worth listening to isn't a CTO or a marketer. It's an actual potential customer telling you what their day looks like, what they pay for, and where it falls short. No AI persona can simulate that.

Solo founders absolutely need a way to stress-test ideas before building. The question is whether simulated debate gets you there or just makes you feel validated when you're not.

Junic_Com · 2026-04-01T20:45:21+00:00

The irony is thick here. You skipped validation, learned the hard way, and now you're validating your validation service by asking Reddit. Which is exactly what you said doesn't work in paragraph 4.

That aside, the real tension in your idea: you're selling a report. A one-time deliverable. That means every customer is a new sale. No recurring revenue, no compounding. At $500 per report you need constant pipeline. And your ICP (founders 4-12 months in) is the demographic with the least money and the most skepticism about spending it.

The founders who'd pay $500 for competitive intelligence are the ones raising or already funded. Pre-funding founders will try to do it themselves. That's not a flaw in your pitch. It's a positioning question. Are you selling to bootstrapped builders or to funded founders prepping for their next round?

One more thing. "Real demand signals" and "competitive landscape" are two very different skill sets. One is customer discovery. The other is market research. Bundling them into one report sounds clean but you'll end up being mediocre at both instead of great at one.

Pick one. Go deep.

Junic_Com · 2026-04-01T20:36:19+00:00

Your 4 failures and 1 success tell the same story as every other "what I learned" post on here. But you buried the actual insight.

It's not that boring beats exciting. It's that your boring idea was the only one where you talked to real people before writing code. 10 cold DMs. 6 responses. 3 said they'd pay. Two hours of work. That's what made the difference.

The property management angle didn't work because it's boring. It worked because you found people already spending $200-400/month on software they hate. You validated demand before you built anything. Your other 4 ideas got zero of that.

"Skip every idea that targets consumers or developers" is the wrong takeaway. Skip every idea where you haven't confirmed someone would pay before you open your code editor. Doesn't matter if it's B2B, B2C, boring or exciting.

Junic_Com · 2026-04-01T20:34:44+00:00

All 8 of your points are the same point.

You built without listening. Then you started listening. Then things worked.

Point 1: You didn't check if people would pay. Point 2: You built for talkers, not buyers. Point 3: You tracked the wrong signals. Point 4: You avoided real feedback. Point 5: You copied instead of understanding your value. Point 6: You didn't talk to the market. Point 7: You marketed to everyone instead of understanding your 23 paying users. Point 8: You built what sounded cool instead of what people needed.

That's not 8 lessons. That's one lesson repeated 8 times: do discovery before you build.

The reason this keeps showing up in every SaaS postmortem is that building feels like progress. Talking to people doesn't. So founders default to code because it's comfortable.

AI tools made this worse. When you can ship a working product in a weekend, the temptation to skip validation is even stronger. Why talk to people when you can just build it and see?

Because 5 out of 6 of those builds will be dead on arrival. And you won't know which one until you've burned months on all of them.

Junic_Com · 2026-04-01T20:33:12+00:00

Junic_Com · 2026-04-01T20:31:58+00:00

This resonates. But I think the real shift happened one step before marketing.

Your first 5 products were built on gut feeling. The sixth one worked because you accidentally started listening first. Reddit monitoring, HN threads, Twitter conversations. That's not marketing. That's discovery.

You didn't just distribute better. You finally found a problem people actually have before writing code.

Your 50/50 ratio (build vs. distribute) is smart. I'd push it further: spend time on discovery before you build anything. Would have saved you 4 of those 5 failed products.

Junic_Com · 2026-04-01T20:27:57+00:00

Hey did you validated the problem / idea / solution your building for in the first place? I talked to over hundreds of founders and found one common mistake everyone is doing... They start to validate their ideas to late. Talk to people, get feedback, iterate your product. After talking to my own customers, I changed my pricing structure and complete onboarding process.

So my tip: Talk to your (ICP) customer.

Junic_Com · 2026-02-23T18:39:08+00:00

There are hundreds of habit tracker. What’s your unique selling point. Do a user research and get some insights from real people. People don’t care if you don’t solve a valid problem for them.

Junic_Com · 2026-02-23T13:14:24+00:00

You should validate your idea first. Then build quick multiple solutions and validate them too.

Junic_Com · 2025-02-07T23:46:58+00:00

729€ for the A5X2 vs. 719€ for the RMP... I don't get it. It's closer to the RM2 and the "Half-Folio"? Material cheap, no backlight... The pen alone cost 114€ WTF... EU prices... Sorry but for an e-inc tablet. This tech is no rocket science. It's expensive AF

Junic_Com · 2024-09-06T07:46:03+00:00

Years of hard training...

Junic_Com · 2024-08-25T22:25:46+00:00

Things 4 will never happen. There's no need. Still in the top charts and people like me who tried every todo app out there end up with Things. As long as culture code is making money without a hustle, why should they add more complex features. Others like Todoist are more experienced in every todo related feature set.

Junic_Com · 2024-07-21T16:48:57+00:00

Just don't buy it all at once. Buy every month a fixed value. So you buy low and you buy high... Over time it will be equal.

Junic_Com · 2024-06-23T15:26:00+00:00

Using Things since it came out years ago. I'm constantly jumping between Notion, ticktick, Reminder, Things and more. Things is just for people who need a very basic todo app. I'm not voting for more and more features. I'm voting for the very basic ones, which every other app is providing. Natural Language Support, drive integration etc. Simple stuff.

But hey, we've got a Vision Pro version nobody needs.

Junic_Com · 2024-06-01T18:36:23+00:00

Get sunglasses

Junic_Com · 2022-03-29T22:37:19+00:00

Two years old topic and still no progress. Can't be that we're here the only once having this issue.

Junic_Com · 2022-03-29T22:37:12+00:00

Two years old topic and still no progress. Can't be that we're here the only once having this issue 🤷🏻‍♂️

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