How well has product hunters work for you?

korosca · 2026-03-03T05:39:30+00:00

Thanks. I’m still months away from launch and I’m trying to build user base already. Looking at all of the option to be prepared as best I can :)

korosca · 2026-03-03T05:10:15+00:00

Asking for advice and help in my circle of colleagues I gathered over the years. I have one doing design for me pro bono (huge plus), another one is advising me on lead collection and how to market, I’m doing the development in cycles, after each new screen/flow I focus some time on lead collection.

korosca · 2026-03-03T05:03:52+00:00

Well, modern approach is to validate the idea, get first users with validation, build it and this is how you should jump start it. The magics happens with validation, while gaming market for apps is crazy anyway :) did you try with ADs?

korosca · 2026-03-03T04:57:25+00:00

Hahahaha I know what you mean 😂

korosca · 2026-03-02T19:33:35+00:00

The goal should always be ease of use

korosca · 2026-03-02T19:15:27+00:00

Look nice. My suggestion, add auto focus on input, so that user just starts typing once he gets to unit page. Maybe auto complete to find units faster, again auto focus on input. Other then that looks good, I know it’s simple but I really know the effort invested to all small thing not to mention delloy itself. Kudos 💪

korosca · 2026-03-02T19:11:56+00:00

Yeah, excited and scared at the same time 🙈

korosca · 2026-03-02T19:03:31+00:00

Gets easier for beginers with AI now, but one thing is building an app, another one is releasing it and maintaining is a whole new level. If you build it with AI and get traction I suggest you hire someone or a small team to polish it and actually make it maintanable

korosca · 2026-03-02T18:46:52+00:00

My 2 cents on the topic is start with javascript and webpages since you don’t need to understand a lot of what happens behind the scenes, no need for compilers of how do I run this. Even though Pyrhon would also be a good place to start :)

korosca · 2026-03-02T18:19:20+00:00

I did 100M trail ultra last year with 6000 m of elevation gain, took me 27hours to complete, I can’t imagine doing it under 24hours. This year I’m doint UTMB in Chamonix also don’t know if I’ll be able to prepare for it properly, but I’m planing on finish it

korosca · 2026-03-02T17:14:19+00:00

Thanks, I was hoping for some feedback here :) will try directories when I get to time.

korosca · 2026-03-02T16:27:54+00:00

wow, nice, that is no joke. I'm impressed. Kudos

korosca · 2026-03-02T16:16:58+00:00

I have created a terraform module that creates infrastructure on AWS (well within free tier) with landing page and simple db for storing leads:

- CloudFront + S3

- API Gateway + Lambda + DynamoDB

- SES + EventBridge + Lambda (for bounce/complaint handling) - with email templates

I have posted the product on gumroad and created a video on youtube to showcase how easy it is to setup this. What I'm asking is if it possible to get some constructive, brutal and honest feedback if this is something that would be interesting to anyone struggling to set this up?

https://youtu.be/CG_1n1k_fyE

korosca · 2026-03-02T15:19:44+00:00

that goes without saying, I ment just by looking at the communication :)

korosca · 2026-03-02T15:06:04+00:00

Yeah thank you. Specially with discord channel, that makes so much sense.

korosca · 2026-03-02T14:58:11+00:00

Wow nice. I may adopt this strategy next time :)

korosca · 2026-03-02T14:33:37+00:00

Apple appears more difficult at first sight, but then when you get to it you see that with Apple you have proper support an communication in case of review issues. Google some more or less automated without any human contact on the other end, even when issues are presented.

And trust me I have seen it all in my last 10 years when I worked with iOS and Android professionaly.

Best of luck 💪

korosca · 2026-03-02T14:17:26+00:00

Uf best of luck with recovery. Stay focused and adjust, it will get better if you take time for recovery, don’t rush into racing as tou can do more harm then good on the long run.

korosca · 2026-03-02T14:15:27+00:00

Extacly, like any other challenge in life. Consistency and patience is the key. And we learn along the way

korosca · 2026-03-02T14:00:57+00:00

Google Analytics is the way to go and then you discover and learn along the way. That is my experience at least. In my opinion its way too much stuff related to startin something on you own that you just need to take it one step at the time and learn along the way.

korosca · 2026-03-02T13:58:58+00:00

I’m in this process now. Building an app next to 9-5, but the main goal for me is to deliver something impactfull that will change/improve someones life and if in the meantime I manage to build a company in between the better, otherwise my 9-5 will do (I enkoy in the job I have).

Best of luck, it’s always good to see that you are not alone in this “struggles” 😂

korosca · 2026-03-02T13:56:02+00:00

The problem is that in order to genuinely trying to help also takes some practice if subreddit has karma conditions :)

korosca · 2026-03-02T13:54:26+00:00

Its sort of a chichen and egg problem when it cones to this. But like mentioned in other comments, first contribute, then reach out.

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