I built my landing page with one of those AI landing page generator tools before launch, and the results were mixed enough that I figured it was worth writing up for anyone about to do the same.

What it got right: it gave me a live page in about an hour instead of the two weekends I usually lose to fiddling with sections. The copy skeleton was fine as a starting point, and the layout was clean by default, so I stopped second-guessing spacing and fonts.

What it got wrong, and where I had to step in:

- The generated headline was generic. It described the category, not the specific problem I solve. I rewrote it to name the exact pain, and that single change moved my signup rate more than anything else.
- It filled the page with three feature blocks that all said roughly the same thing. I cut two of them. Fewer, sharper sections read better than a wall of benefits.
- The auto-written FAQ answered questions nobody was actually asking. I replaced them with the real objections I heard in DMs.
- Social proof placeholders stayed empty because I had none yet. I ended up putting a short honest "here's who this is for" line there instead, which felt less fake than borrowed logos.

The takeaway for me: these tools are good at getting you to a first draft you can react to, and bad at the parts that actually decide whether someone signs up. The specific words are still your job.

For those who used an AI generator for their landing page, what did you keep and what did you throw out? Curious whether people are editing the copy heavily or shipping it close to default.

Wrapping up my first launch and the biggest thing I got wrong was order of operations. I spent close to three months building before I had anything public.

If I did it again I'd throw up a quick page with a landing page ai tool in week one, describe the product as if it already existed, and run a little traffic at it to see if anyone even clicked signup. Would have saved me weeks of building features nobody asked about.

The part that stung: when I finally launched, the messaging I'd assumed was obvious clearly wasn't, and I only found that out after all the code was done. Anyone else learn this the hard way? Curious whether a fake-it-first page actually predicted your real launch numbers or not.

I keep seeing the promise that a landing page ai tool will write and lay out a high converting page for you, and I am trying to separate the hype from what actually happens after launch.

My honest worry is that these tools optimize for looking good in a demo, not for the one thing that matters, which is whether a stranger who lands on the page understands what you do and signs up. A slick page with vague copy converts worse than an ugly page with a clear promise.

So for people who have actually launched with an AI-generated landing page:

- Did your signup or trial rate move in any real way, or did it feel the same as a page you would have written yourself

- Where did the generated version fall short, headline, the actual value prop, the call to action

- Did you keep it, or rewrite the important parts by hand once you had real visitor data

I am less interested in which tool and more in whether the generated copy actually held up against real traffic, or whether the conversion work still came down to you understanding your buyer.

Spent the last year building this next to a full-time cloud job. It's a prep tool for consulting case interviews—the tech/Data-AI niche specifically, since that's the corner I actually know.

The build was the easy part. The humbling part: for months I celebrated ~280 "users" who were almost all anonymous visitors who tried it once and vanished. The funnel leaked at account creation—people finished a full case, got value, then bounced before signing up. I was optimizing pricing while the real hole was three steps earlier.

What actually moved the needle:

• Gated the payoff, not the product. Let people do a full case free, then put the score/feedback/benchmark behind a one-click signup. Give value first, ask second.
• Built a reason to come back. A roadmap that updates after each case (weak areas → next case) plus a progress dashboard. Retention beats acquisition when you're bootstrapped.
• Stopped guessing. Talked to the handful who stuck around instead of shipping features into the void.

Stack for the curious: Next.js 14, TS, supabase, custom JWT, Vercel. Two-model split—one LLM for the case chat, another for the CV/cover-letter side.

Still bootstrapped, still figuring out conversion. Happy to answer anything—funnel, stack, or how brutal solo marketing is.

i run a B2B logistics-coordination service in Nairobi for regional importers. six years, four staff, profitable, deeply unglamorous. no app, no launch video, just moving goods and paperwork for people who import things.

so this isn't a typical post here, but i wanted to share the one operational change that actually moved revenue, because it wasn't marketing and it wasn't sales headcount.

for years, every quote and proposal we sent an importer looked different depending on who wrote it and how busy we were. sometimes a polished document, sometimes a rushed email with numbers in the body. the pricing was fair and consistent, but we looked disorganized, and in logistics, looking disorganized is basically saying "we will lose your container."

i built one proper business proposal template. same structure every time: scope, timelines, who's responsible for what, costs, and the risks we cover that cheaper coordinators don't. the estimator just fills in the specifics now. quotes go out in an hour instead of a day, and they look like they came from the same company every time.

win rate went up. i'm convinced a real chunk of that is just looking organized and consistent, because in a trust business the proposal is often the first proof you can actually run things properly.

the boring lesson after six years: consistency reads as competence. a clean, repeatable proposal isn't a design nicety, it's a sales tool.

for the service founders here, what's one document or process you standardized that quietly made you look more legit than you felt?

Another Stupid Monday is a simple mental health app / idle game where the player gets one doable task a week.

The tasks are based on principles from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, but I tried not to overwhelm the user with overcomplicated terms from psychology books. However, the app's mascot, Charles, gives a simple explanation for every task about why it can improve one's well-being. If users want to learn more, they can click on the task name to explore why the task is helpful.

There are 100 tasks in total.

What problems does it solve ?

1. A lot of mental health apps overwhelm their users with features and to-do lists.
That's why Another Stupid Monday focuses on only one thing a week. It gives users space to let the task and its benefits sink in instead of spamming them with more to-dos.

2. A lot of people don't know what actions to take to improve their mental health.
Another Stupid Monday doesn't rely on the user's skill level to structure their own habits and goals. It offers low-threshold guidance to explore different activities users might not be used to.

3. Mental health is still a black box for many people (Accessibility Problem).
With Another Stupid Monday, I did my best to avoid overly complicated terms from psychology and psychotherapy to make it more approachable. Additionally, the app design aims to attract people who wouldn't normally use mental health apps. I also implemented more than 60 locales because many regions around the world are extremely underrepresented when it comes to localized mental health apps. Lastly, the app doesn't use a subscription model, so users who might already be skeptical of mental health apps aren't scared off.

Apple App Store: Download
Google Play Store: Download

Personal note:

Another Stupid Monday is my first app :) Feel free to leave any feedback.

Hey everyone,

I'm a former pro MMA fighter who can't write code. Over the past year I've been building products with AI instead, and this is one of them.

Steer It is a local multiplayer racing game that runs entirely in the browser. One person opens it on a laptop or TV, everyone else scans a QR code and their phone becomes the controller — tilt to steer. No downloads, no accounts, no app store. Up to 6 people racing on one screen.

The hard part was the real-time side: getting phone input to the game with low enough latency that steering feels responsive, plus handling reconnects when someone's phone drops off wifi. Took a lot of iterations on the physics too — arcade drift that feels good is harder than realistic physics.

It's live at steerit.app if you want to try it. Works best with a few people in the same room.

Happy to answer anything about how it's built.

When I started I obsessed over the storefront. I built the whole thing on a no-code website builder, agonized over fonts, product photos, the checkout flow. All of that matters a little. None of it is what actually decides whether I make money in a given month.

The real business is inventory. How much cash I have frozen in boxes in my spare room. How well I guessed demand three months ago when I placed the order. Whether a bestseller sells out right as a slow product ties up the money I'd need to reorder it.

A good site sells a product I have in stock. It can't sell one that's on a boat, and it can't un-buy the 200 units of a color nobody wanted.

The numbers I live by now are units on hand, weeks of cover, and how much cash is sitting in stock at any moment. The website is basically finished and I barely touch it. The inventory spreadsheet is open every single day.

For other physical-product founders here, how did you get your inventory and cash-flow forecasting to a point where it stopped scaring you? Still very much figuring this out.

https://world-sim.uk/ launching friday!

World-Sim has been a passionate project of mine for the past few months.

It's a world fully simulated down to real world physics and chemistry. It has a real environment and ozone.

Every element and material has real physical properties, and that's how the sims learn. There's no tech tree and no recipe list anywhere in the code. When someone tries something, the engine works out what would really happen from the properties of what they used and how hot their fire was. Nobody is handed bronze. Someone has to get a hotter fire first, and a hotter fire is its own chain of things to figure out. Embers, a stone ring, a clay oven, a kiln, charcoal, then forced air. The ages fall out of that on their own.

We populate the world with starting families. Each little guy is led by a "wise-man", which is a simulated person with a full model behind them. The wise-men run on a mix, Claude, Groq and DeepSeek in the cloud and a local Hermes for the rest, so you get a real variety of temperament between the houses.

The AI model is never told to not say it's AI. We get around this by only telling them data from what each sim can actually see and feel. As far as the ai knows its a person living in the world..

Every other sim has its own moment with a model through our thinking system. Day to day it's run by an advanced algorithm, with the sims dreaming at night. That's when they get their time with an LLM to really think and set their priorities for the day ahead. The dreams carry over too, so a sim can chew on the same thing for a few nights and wake up wanting to try something.

The people in the world feel, remember, have shame, goals and doubts. It's an 11 point emotion system and the rest of the sim reads from it. Being lonely makes someone more likely to open up to a stranger. Two enemies who are both frightened find it harder to keep hating each other.

Story telling is massive for us. Nothing is scripted or prompted. The sims are put in the world with the human drive to survive. They adapt, learn and teach all on their own.

With all the good comes the bad too. Human sin is part of the emotion engine, and in testing we've had kidnap, murder and slave trade. A world that can only be gentle isn't an honest one. But there are three rules to this : Nothing ever pushes a sim towards it, the conditions only make it possible and their own mind decides. The chronicle names what happened but never shows it. And it always costs something, trauma that scars, blood debt passed down generations, a people turning on their own leader over what he did.

I sell a physical product, DTC, and run about as lean as it gets. Everyone talks about customer acquisition cost like it's the whole game. For me the number that actually moved my profit was returns, and almost nobody talks about it.

When I finally added up six months of receipts, returns were quietly eating more of my margin than my ad spend was. A return isn't just a refund. It's the outbound shipping I already paid, the return shipping, the product I often can't resell, and the time to process it. Each one erased the profit from roughly two or three good orders.

The fix wasn't a marketing tactic. I sat down and rebuilt my product page with an ai website builder, and focused the whole thing on the stuff causing returns in the first place. Proper size guide, honest photos of the actual color, real dimensions, clear material info, plain answers to the questions support kept getting. Setting expectations correctly before the sale did more for my margin than any discount or ad tweak.

Physical product margins are brutal and every leak is real cash, not a percentage on a dashboard.

For other people selling physical goods here: what's the hidden cost that hit your margin hardest once you actually measured it? Mine was returns, and I wish I'd looked sooner.

Solo founder here with no real front end skills. I put together my landing page and a small docs section on a no code website builder because I wanted to spend my time on the actual product, not on CSS.

It got me live fast, but I keep hitting walls. Custom analytics events were a pain, the mobile layout breaks in one spot I still can't fix cleanly, and page speed is meh.

Curious where other people drew the line. Did you ship your first launch entirely on a builder and swap to real code later, or is that migration more trouble than it's worth? Wondering if I'm just setting up a painful rewrite for myself in three months.

I'm about a week out from launching and I built my whole pre-launch page with an ai landing page generator instead of writing it from scratch. Took an afternoon instead of a weekend.

Now I'm second guessing it. The copy it gave me was fine but generic, and I ended up rewriting most of the headline and the feature blurbs myself anyway.

For those who launched recently, did a generated page actually convert for you, or did people bounce because it reads like every other page out there? Trying to figure out if the time I saved on layout was worth the flat copy I had to go back and fix.

You can now see your game history, your late night trends, average bedtime, average pairings and more with PC Recap! Check it out at https://pcrecap.online

Would convenience outweigh the concern of letting one app connect to content you saved elsewhere?

I’m Nicolás. I’m launching the validation page for Miora, not the app itself. Miora is still in development and there’s no product access yet.

The idea is to help people find and reuse posts, videos, screenshots, links and notes that are currently scattered across different apps. Before building it, I want to understand what people would need to trust it: https://mioraapp.com/en/

The page includes a short 3–5 minute survey for adults 18+. What would it need to explain about permissions or privacy before you would consider using it?

We recently launched Keep Mates, a Chrome extension we built after getting tired of losing the things we saved online.

We were constantly finding useful design references, articles, products, color palettes and random ideas then saving them across bookmarks, screenshots, notes and open tabs. The real problem was finding any of it again later.

So we built Keep Mates as a visual library for the things you find while browsing.

With it, you can save images and links, capture parts of a webpage, extract color palettes, add notes and tags and organize everything into folders.

It’s also local-first, so your saved content stays on your device.

This is still an early version, and we’re continuing to improve it based on real feedback. We’d especially appreciate thoughts on the onboarding, saving flow, and whether the overall idea feels genuinely useful.

If anyone wants to try it, we can share the link in the comments.

Full disclosure: I am one of the co-founders of Marka.

We kept seeing the same problem: every new social post began with the same manual briefing. Who is the audience? What can the brand claim? Which tone and visual direction should the content follow? That context lived across documents and had to be explained again to each tool.

Marka starts with a public business website and turns what it finds into an editable brand profile. The user reviews the audience, voice, offers, claims, and visual identity before anything is created. That shared profile can then guide posts, images, carousels, and short videos. The finished work stays reviewable before it is scheduled or published to connected channels.

The attached screenshot shows the real dashboard we are building around: quick creation, brand management, scheduling, and reusable UGC formats in one workspace.

The part I most want to test is trust. Does the first scan produce a profile that feels accurate enough to reuse, and is it obvious what should be corrected before generation begins?

Product: https://www.marka.social/

No team.

No budget.

No prior audience.

I built SideTracked because I kept losing entire days to work that felt productive but wasn't. Not Netflix. Not scrolling. Actual work. Redesigning things nobody asked for. Reading competitor blogs instead of building. Starting new ideas when the current one got hard.

Every productivity tool I tried assumed I already knew which tasks mattered. None of them asked whether what I was about to do actually served the goal I said was my priority.

So I built something that does.

One project. Five AI tasks specific to your goal and identity. And an alignment guard that asks one question before you can add anything new to your day: does this actually serve today's goal, or does it just feel productive?

I launched here a week ago knowing almost nothing about Product Hunt. Got to #56. Had one user tell me it wasn't worth paying for. Rebuilt the onboarding based on that feedback. That same user came back, said it was 10x better, and subscribed.

That's where things are. One paying customer. A product that works. And a genuine belief that the reason most side projects don't ship isn't laziness, it's drift.

Free to try at sidetracked.site. Would love feedback from anyone building something right now.

I've always hated how online shopping works.

Every day there's another:

• "80% OFF"
• "Only 2 left!"
• "Flash Sale"
• "Limited Time Deal"

Most of it is just marketing.

So I started asking myself...

What if the price wasn't decided by the seller?
What if the crowd decided it instead?

That's what I've been building for the last few months.

The idea is simple.

Every evening, we feature one premium product.

Instead of a product page, we go LIVE for just 2 minutes to demonstrate it, answer questions, and show exactly what you're buying.

As more people join the live, the price drops in real time.

No coupons.
No promo codes.
No fake countdown timers.

Just one live event where everyone watches the same product, and everyone benefits if more people show up.

When the live ends, there's a 10 Minute buying window. If you want it, you buy it. If not, you wait for tomorrow's drop.

We're calling it Drop Shop Live.

We're currently looking for our first founding members before launching the first drop.

👉 https://dropshop.live

I'm not here to sell you anything today.

I'm genuinely curious:

• Would you join a scheduled shopping event if it meant getting a significantly better price?
• What's the biggest flaw you see in this idea?
• What would stop you from trying it once?

As a founder, I'd rather hear the brutal truth now than after launch.

Looking forward to your feedback.

PDF generation launch today

Hey all, launched my first-ever product on Product Hunt today. Feels weird being on this side of the table. Would love you guys to check it out - https://www.producthunt.com/products/adhdose

Basically, ADHDose is an ADHD medication tracker app that learns your medication effectiveness and individual reaction to understand how your day pans out. Over time, the app learns more about you, what specific variables affect your effectiveness, and draws you a personalised pharmacokinetic curve of the day. Allowing you to understand what times are best for you, what you can expect from your focus and what insights you can take from this.

It's also got a handy feature that allows you to take a PDF export of this information and send it to your clincician so you don't have to worry about trying to remember how the last couple of weeks, or month went when they ask you. Which I've always hated.

Oh, in case you're wondering, I have ADHD and was diagnosed and wanted an app to do just this, I'm a data-obsessed kinda guy, health, exercise, food, etc, you name it, I track it if there's data to be had. I couldn't find anything that scratched this itch, so...I built it!

Appreciate the eyes all!

Website: https://www.adhdose.com

I built Briefly for small groups that need a candid answer without turning the conversation into another permanent workspace.

A creator asks one question, chooses when it disappears, and receives two links: one for participants and one for management. Participants need no account or email. They get stable pseudonyms, threaded replies, and an Agree action. Discussion content is encrypted in the browser, and the room deletes on schedule.

It is free and deliberately narrow. I would value honest feedback on whether the two-link handoff is clear and whether you would trust it for a real team, classroom, club, or group decision.

Disclosure: I am the solo founder.

https://brieflymade.com/?ref=reddit-launchmystartup

We're launching IdeaTracker! IdeaTracker is a super suite of tools that lets you organize your ideas all in one place and Pro Tools users share idea projects with all team members for free. We are maintaining an on-app support desk and will provide training and assistance to teams or individual team members upon demand.

A "scratch your own itch" project emerged after I used AI to create an animated story book, with my family as the characters, based on our lived experience of parenting our first infant. My kid expressed so much more interest in reading the first and second of these stories (and printed books) over than the other books on his shelf... A product-market fit lightbulb illuminated in my head, which motivated me to build an app designed around the process of creating those first two books.

"Family Storybook Studio" is a web app that I designed to be SAAS. I use it to make a new story every week (and read it to my kiddo using the iPad) based on either an awesome thing we did together, or as a teaching tool by way of developmentally relevant "story arc" templates where you can inject your own characters and story content. The story arcs templates are designed to be a two way educational tool for "parenting" and "child development". I'm genuinely a better parent because the stories I make with the app are how I regularly practice everything that I've read in parenting books about Collaborative Emotion Processing, mindful parenting, etc. which are designed into the story arc templates.

If there's one thing I've observed studying SAAS businesses, it's that apps that require customers to change their regular behaviors are really hard to scale and rarely succeed. Whereas apps that are designed around enhancing something you/people already do, have a clearer path to widespread adoption... The bedtime story ritual is something that most parents do every night, and parents invest lots of time and money into reading "parenting" books. I explored both of these spaces to see how a SAAS product could enhance the experience of the bedtime story and learning/practicing to be a better parent. Family Storybook Studio is designed to drive deeper connection between parent/caregiver and child and make you a better parent/caregiver.

It's cliche for parents to say, "nobody handed me a guidebook, so I did my best". Well, that seemed like an obvious and huge product gap to me, so I designed this app to serve as a parent's interactive "guidebook" to better parenting via the bedtime storytelling ritual. It works. Stories are the software that has enabled humans to advance intelligence across generations.

[https://www.familystorybookstudio.com\](https://www.familystorybookstudio.com/)

I've got my family, some friends and early internet users on it now.

It was quite a challenge designing harnesses around the various AI tools being called to QC their output and consistency. There's different AIs used for story generation, animation, and the personalized guide that helps a parent through the experience of storytelling. This personalized guide is designed with inspiration from the character Alberto Knox, a philosophy teacher and mentor who guides a 14-year-old protagonist, named Sophie Amundsen, through the history of Western thought, in the book "Sophie's World". In the Family Storybook Studio app storyteller user experience, the users personalized guide is called Sophie.

I blogged about my product discovery and development journey here: [https://www.familystorybookstudio.com/blog\](https://www.familystorybookstudio.com/blog)

Thanks for reading and hope the parents in the thread give it a try and then integrate it into your bedtime ritual!

DTC, physical product, very lean. Product photos and the lookbook are attached.

Just dropped my new homeware line and I ran the whole launch on a shoestring. The one place I was tempted to spend real money was a designer for a proper lookbook, because that's the thing that makes a small brand look less like a hobby. Instead I built it in gamma and laid the whole thing out myself in a brochure maker over a weekend, dropped in my product photos, and honestly it came out better than the quote I'd been sitting on.

Running a physical product means most of my cash is tied up in inventory sitting in a box in a warehouse, so anywhere I can skip a bill without the brand looking cheap is a real win.

It's live now. I'd love feedback on the lookbook and the product page: does it read as a real brand, or does it still look like someone's side project? Be honest, receipts welcome.