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What is the real problem solved by the product you are creating?
There are tons of nice to have products. But only few of them solve a real problem, a real pain. If you can find it, that's a huge step forward for your product.
Therefore - can you write in 1 sentence what problem does your product solve? And community will be able to improve your formulation. Let's see what result can we achieve this way.
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The benefits should differ from person to person. For one person gym would be amazing benefit, for other - great health insurance. For one - transport compensation, for other - additional holiday. Therefore ability to choose the benefits based on their costs for the company should be the best option.
If I had to choose one, I would take an ability to have a free lunch at work - where you also...
What's the best benefit company can give to employee?
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Less than I would like. :) There is a lot of amazing content here, that could improve our lives, but it may not be noticed. Therefore am trying to make the PH visits as my daily habit.
I don't think it's only about minutes, it is about how effective these minutes are, how quickly can you filter the important content.
How many hours a day do you sit on the PH and communicate?
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Everybody comments about good and poor video, but what's good and what's bad? Also in the video you have few seconds only to grab attention. If you can make an attention grabber in first few seconds, then also un-expensive video will work well. The most important - it should tell the story so there is no doubt anymore what is your product. Or even better - what problem do you solve. If you...
App promo video for launch - must or nice to have?
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For some weird reason just got a great newsletter from indie hackers, where this topic is described in detailed manner:
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/whats-new-how-do-you-handle-bad-customers-d932607d2b?utm_source=indie-hackers-emails&utm_campaign=ih-newsletter&utm_medium=email
Do you get rid of "bad" users?
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Excitement to launch the first product on ProductHunt
Hi, Community!
For those, who has never launched on ProductHunt their startups - do that! It is really exciting! A similar feeling to launch the beta, launch the 1st public version, getting the first customer. And to launch for the first time is even more exciting as you have no idea what to expect!
I have had a list of startups before but for some weird reason didn't launch any of them on...
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Valdis Takeris
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Hey Product Hunt users! 👋
A BIG day for us - the SanctionGuard team - as we are launching our first product on Product Hunt. 🎉🎉🎉
Some numbers from SanctionGuard:
- 1'000'000+ checks performed since initial launch;
- entries of almost 20'000 sanctioned individuals;
- 5 most popular international sanction lists and are adding more
- daily monitored and updated lists.
Here is our story 💪 - we...
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I like if learning tools provide some gamification. Like Duolingo app to learn languages. If you have high motivation, then it is not needed, but already with moderate motivation it really helps to return to the learning every day.
What is your most used learning tool or program?
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Will the current political situation affect your business?
We are all aware of what's going on globally right now. I mean - the political situation, the war in Ukraine, etc. Many individuals are added to the sanctions lists, millions of people are worried about the situation, lots of innocent people, unfortunately, are killed.
I wanted to find your - the startup people opinion about this situation. What do you think how will it affect the micro and...
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Edit, copy paste, sometimes also character encoding.
What are the challenges you usually face when using PDFs?
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Definitely both. And it really depends on industry. The most important is to remember, why are you exchanging your contacts. If you need that other person and he gives you a physical business card - perfect. Remember him, write down his details on the card and invite to Linkedin later (if the person has an account). You will have a reason to interact with that person again, do that with custom...
Linkedin or Business card?
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It depends, whether your bad user makes you lose money. If it doesn't I would allow him to use your system. Why? This user will use it and probably promote to others. So your potential user count will grow. And these others may not be "bad" users as they may consider, that it's easier to simply pay without any tips-and-tricks steps.
Exception would be if this bad user would actively try to...
Do you get rid of "bad" users?
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Exactly the same resources. On top of that you can take check next in different marketplaces and I also time after time check https://www.launchingnext.com and https://www.crunchbase.com Specially in Crunchbase you can see which startups have just received funding which often means they are hot currently.
Where do you Get Your Indie Hacking News/Content?
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My product - https://sanctionguard.com - idea definitely came from the need. A legit business needed to check customers against international sanction lists and we found out, that there are not many affordable solutions. So we built one for ourselves and as a next step transformed it as a service also for others. And - it happened even before Russian invasion in Ukraine, therefore we actually...
Is your product idea based on your own need or you've found it externally?
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I believe this is an amazing market you are targeting. Good luck with it. I have used one partly similar tool years ago, but it wasn't working as well as expected. Already then I noticed, that such tool like yours could have a huge potential! Good luck!
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Good luck with your product! I believe it has large potential as you have targeted a real pain.
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Yes, one of the products I'm working on has this idea in it. With Caterevo.com we provide a software solution for companies, which want to organise lunch at work for their employees. How is it sustainable? For example, in our case all company gets just a single caterer per day which means there is 1 truck providing lunch to the building, still offering possibility to choose what to eat. Before...
Do you think about sustainability or the climate when running your business?
Valdis Takeris
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International sanctions - do we care about them?
Now every day in press we hear about sanctions, sanctions, sanctions. And it is so terrible what happens in Ukraine right now. But do we as startup owners act enough? Are we sure that our customers are not in sanction lists?
I will launch my startup, which checks your customers against international sanction lists in ProductHunt this or next week. But before that would like to find out your...
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Congratulations with the idea! Will it work and who will benefit from it, that's hard to say. But it definitely will be a lot of fun for everyone involved. Good luck, will reach you out within few minutes!
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