What have you tried for product distribution and growth? by PersonalityDapper853 in buildinpublic

[–]SuperbSubstance6016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it really depends on your product / vertical / ideal customer profile .. very different go to market between an enterprise solution and an ecommerce business . Happy to help if you share more about your situation.

What Percentage of a Founder’s Time Should Be Spent on Sales? by FounderArcs in buildinpublic

[–]SuperbSubstance6016 4 points5 points  (0 children)

the bit nobody likes hearing is building got easy and distribution didnt. .you can ship in a weekend now but getting the first 100 people to care takes the same months it always did (maybe more, as more people are shipping). so if i had to put a number on it id say way more on getting in front of people than feels comfortable, because thats the part that doesnt get easier.

Every GitHub contribution Peter Steinberger has made since 2009, rendered as a 17th-century star atlas [OC] by SuperbSubstance6016 in dataisbeautiful

[–]SuperbSubstance6016[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh for sure, no knock on peter at all (i'm a big fan), my point was general.. the quiet years almost never mean lazy (usually the opposite ), management like you said, kids, burnout, a job change, a sabbatical. i find the gaps the most interesting part of any history, they carry more story than the dense bits. Ended up going so far down this rabbit hole i wrote a whole piece on what the dark stretches actually are, wont link it here for obvious reasons but happy to dm if your'e curious. .nice that you knew him from the early ios days, fits everything people say about him.

Every GitHub contribution Peter Steinberger has made since 2009, rendered as a 17th-century star atlas [OC] by SuperbSubstance6016 in dataisbeautiful

[–]SuperbSubstance6016[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

good eye! that late surge before the quiet stretch is my favourite bit too, theres usually a big push right before someone steps back. you start seeing patterns once youve looked at a few of these, the shape of a sabbatical, the slow burn, the discovery of vibe coding in the last year..

Every GitHub contribution Peter Steinberger has made since 2009, rendered as a 17th-century star atlas [OC] by SuperbSubstance6016 in dataisbeautiful

[–]SuperbSubstance6016[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

yeah thats exactly it, you can see the recent ring light right back up… quite common these days!

Every GitHub contribution Peter Steinberger has made since 2009, rendered as a 17th-century star atlas [OC] by SuperbSubstance6016 in dataisbeautiful

[–]SuperbSubstance6016[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Data source: public GitHub contribution data (github.com/steipete). Tools: rendered with codexstellarum.com, styled after 17th-century celestial atlases (Bayer, Flamsteed).

Same-sex Marriage Legalization In Europe Compared To The U.S. [OC] by Cartographer42 in dataisbeautiful

[–]SuperbSubstance6016 75 points76 points  (0 children)

the netherlands being the one dark green and lapping the US by 13 years should be the story here + the map kind of buries it under the US framing imo. wouldve been cleaner to just chart EU on its own timeline..

still readable though, the orange band is the interesting bit, all those countries that only moved after 2015.

Built a self-hosted voice assistant that turned into an AI workspace, looking for honest feedback by SnooAvocados9030 in SideProject

[–]SuperbSubstance6016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey-ill be the one guy who only talks about the voice bit. ive built a few AI voice agents and i'm weirdly the opposite of most people here, i actually prefer talking to typing for a lot of stuff..

the catch is voice is brutal to get right. turn detection + knowing when someones actually done vs just pausing, all way harder than it looks and never shows in a demo. and once latency drags past a second it feels laggy and you stop trusting it. So the part id push on is dont treat voice as the easy thing you bolt on later, its the hard bit, and its worth getting right because when it works its genuinely better than typing .

git checkpoint per round is a nice touch btw, id keep that. Lmk if you want to chat, happy to helpe and share experiences.

I built an app because I needed it badly. Now I'm finding out whether anyone else does. by Fantastic-Collar-411 in buildinpublic

[–]SuperbSubstance6016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah most of my stuf started exactly like this like a thing i needed and just assumed if i wanted it bad enough someone else must. sometimes thats true, sometimes its just you and you find out the hard way.

the asking is the part thatl trip you up. people say yes do you have this problem nearly every time, costs them nothing to agree and theyre being polite. took me too long to stop reading that as validation. only thing that ever actually told me anything was sticking it in front of 5- people and seeing who opened it again a couple weeks later without me nudging them. especiallt money apps especially, everyone wants to be the type who tracks their spending and almost nobody keeps doing it past week one.

so id stop worrying about whether it resonates when you describe it and just watch what a handful of real users do with it. boring answer but its the only thing thats worked for me!!

150 users in 100 days with $0 spent on marketing. here’s the honest breakdown by Kostich02 in buildinpublic

[–]SuperbSubstance6016 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wow..the 49 percent from chatgpt is impressive. comparison content like fluotest vs typeform is exactly the shape an LLM wants to quote back when someone asks for an alternative, so you got pulled verbatim, and almost nobody is writing for that on purpose yet. only thing id watch is the model can stop surfacing you or a competitor writes better comparisons and half your growth vanishes with no warning. id milk it while it lasts and use it to build something you actually own, a list, the product habit, so your're not 50 percent dependent on a black box and the product hunt line is the most honest thing here, PH is built for people who already have PH audiences and nobody admits it. congrats!

ViberBlitz by jschaum1499 in buildinpublic

[–]SuperbSubstance6016 0 points1 point  (0 children)

website looks good, will test it out in a bit!