Maxwell

I m preparing for my first Product Hunt launch and would love to learn from makers who have already gone through the process.

What surprised you most about your launch?

I m particularly interested in:

• What you did before launch day

• How you prepared your launch page

• What happened during the first 24 hours

• Where your early users came from

• What you would do differently next time

Hey everyone,

I don't come from a formal engineering background, but I've been experimenting with how far pure natural language prompting can push a functional full-stack app.

I recently shipped an interactive daily bidding leaderboard where users displace ranks dynamically, resetting every midnight UTC.

We've spent almost two years building an e-commerce platform, and we're now facing a decision that I think many founders eventually run into.

Do we keep it closed-source and build a hosted SaaS business around it, or open-source the platform and try to build a community around it?