Arnav Bathla

I had a super unconventional journey into tech startups. I worked on the product teams at various Fortune 500s for years before I discovered my love for building products myself. I spent countless hours browsing through Product Hunt but only as a lurker and occasionally commenting on others' work. Eventually, frustrated by my lack of action and inability to write code, I stepped up in 2018 (thanks to the book Atomic Habits) and decided to build tiny teeny projects with no-code. Shipped my 1st project Do Things That Don't Scale in 5 days that became the #1 Product Of The Day which gave me the impetus to continue building a portfolio of over 10 projects

These are the top 3 mistakes I repeatedly see people making on @producthunt : 1) Always on SALES MODE!!: Don't make the mistake of selling your product, convincing people to go and upvote your product, it's a turn-off for everyone. The ProductHunt team and the algorithm are especially cautious of identifying people who are spamming the community. 2) SELF before service:

One of the most important things I think is finding founder-market fit. Naval talks about how finding founder-market fit is even more important than finding product-market fit, which makes sense since you can iterate faster without burning out on a problem you are close with. I personally tend to do what attracts me while keeping a conscious mindset of identifying problems to navigate this idea maze. What do your preferred methods?