From a small city in Brazil to building AI products
Hey everyone, my name is Jonh Alex.
I m from Pernambuco, Brazil, from a humble family. My parents did not finish elementary school, and my life was never really easy. A hard part of my story is that my father had problems with alcohol, and my family went through very difficult moments because of that. These things still hurt me a lot when I remember them.
I'm Community Member of the Year!
Hey PH! I'm Shane, building Jootle (launching tomorrow)
Hey Product Hunt community,
I'm Shane, founder of Jootle. Launching tomorrow and wanted to introduce myself first.
If you build it they will come. Won't they?
I'm an engineer. I love solving problems. When working on an AI agent I discovered that LLM are really bad at web automation. They know what steps to perform to complete a task, they just don't know how to do them. I saw this as a fundamental problem that had to be solved before I could create a general purpose agent. So I solved it.
The solution is webSlinger. This is how it works. You show webSlinger how to perform the task in your browser and webSlinger copies you in real time in another tab. You get immediate feedback that webSlinger can perform each action as you do it. Save the resulting "session map", and now webslinger can translate from "what to do" to "how to do it." The LLM then has what it needs to generate an automation script.
Plan -> Record -> Generate -> Automate (repeatedly).
I built in the capabilities I cared about the most, secure login and MFA with locally held credentials and array extraction.
Starting my Product Hunt hunter journey
I decided to become a hunter to give visibility to builders who can't pay for it.
If you think about it, Product Hunt is a platform where you trade time and feedback for visibility and feedback. And that's huuuuge for people who can't buy visibility but can invest their time.
I was in this case when I built Mailwarm (YC S20). Product Hunt helped us validate and find new customers. We went from $3K MRR to $8K MRR during launch week. That's when I understood how big PH can be for founders with no marketing budget.
Recently I started a builder community focused on Moroccans. I understood that building is not a problem anymore. The bottleneck is go-to-market.
I am Alexander. I building Jobora alone..
Hi, Product Hunt.
My name is Alexander. I am a solo developer from Zambia. No big team. No venture capital. No fancy office. Just me, my laptop, and a pain I could not shake.
I started struggling with the job market at an early stage. I watched opportunities pass by not because I lacked skill, but because I was in the wrong country, did not have the right connections, and could not afford the expensive tools that everyone said I needed. I tailored resumes until 2 AM. I wrote cover letters that felt like begging letters. I applied to hundreds of jobs and heard back from almost none.
That kind of rejection gets inside you. It makes you feel invisible. Like the world decided your value before you even got a chance to speak.
Is Product Hunt still for the "garage" indie maker, or is it dominated by big corps?
I m getting ready for my first-ever product launch, and I ll be honest, I m feeling like the ultimate underdog. I m a 50-year-old Realtor from the Canadian Prairies, and looking at some of these launch teams with their massive marketing budgets and VC backing is a little intimidating.
I built this solution because I had a problem I needed to solve: my own doomscrolling habit. Since I don't have a technical background, I used AI as my "expert partner" to help me navigate the roadmap and bridge the gaps I didn't even know I had.
But now that I'm at the starting line, I have to ask: Can a solo, non-tech founder still rank well here? Or has the platform shifted to favor the big players with the huge email lists?
I d love to hear from other indie makers how do you compete when you don't have a marketing department? Is the "Maker's Story" still enough to get people to pay attention?
Hello New here!
Hey PH
3C here. Long-time lurker, finally decided the upvote button alone wasn't pulling its weight.
I run GTM and community for 2 SaaS products - which is a fancy way of saying I live inside TG , Reddit threads, and spreadsheets. I've shipped launches that went better than expected and a few that taught me humility very quickly. Both equally valuable, one way more fun to talk about.
I mostly nerd out on AI infra, dev tools, and open source. If your product makes a developer's life easier or turns a community into something people actually want to show up to, I want to hear about it.
Hi I'm Jeff I'm an acquired founder looking to reconnecting with founders!
After several years of founding and running a VC backed startup that got acquired by a fortune 100 I am looking to reconnect with the founder community!
With AI it's such a fun time to build now, but go-to-market is the new bottleneck. I'd love to connect with folks to share stories!
