So here's what happened. We were running campaigns, watching our click metrics climb, feeling pretty good about performance. Then we started digging into where those clicks actually came from.

Half of them were bots.

Not simple ones either. Headless browsers mimicking human behavior perfectly. Selenium scripts automating clicks at scale. Click farms using mobile devices. Advanced stuff rotating IPs, spoofing geolocation, faking mouse movements, generating realistic referrer patterns. Fingerprinting evasion. Timing tricks. Some were so good they looked completely human.

We realized most link tools just count clicks. They don't ask if those clicks are real.

We re all builders here, which usually means at some point we looked at something clunky, slow, or frustrating and thought, there has to be a better way. Most products don t start with a grand vision; they start with irritation, curiosity, or firsthand pain.

I d love to learn more about how others here have navigated that journey:

How did you uncover the problem you decided to work on?
What signals told you this problem was worth solving?
How did you validate (if at all) whether people would actually pay for a solution?
Has your product stayed true to the original problem, or did it evolve into something different?
What surprised you the most along the way?

Hey Product Hunt community!

I'm building something to solve a problem my family faces every single day, and I'd love your feedback.

The problem:

Every household has someone carrying the invisible mental load of meals. It's not the cooking that's exhausting it's the deciding. 21 meals a week. Remembering who eats what. Knowing what's in the fridge. Figuring out quick meals for busy nights.

I ve been testing multiple AI voice agent platforms over the last few months.

Almost all of them claim to be no-code but most still require:

Hey PH!                                                                                                            

 I'm Mathew, solo founder of Meliora.                                                                                   

We're launching TeamAI today AI employees that get a real Ubuntu desktop, open Chrome, and actually complete tasks for you.

Not just answers. Real work.

The most surprising use case from our early users has been competitive research. They tell the agent "go through these 20 competitor websites and summarize their pricing" and come back in 20 minutes. No copy-paste, no prompt engineering, just done.

One of the most interesting parts of Provoke is that it s not only a workspace.

It s also a marketplace.