... until about January this year, we were still under 10 people. Signs of PMF We were initially planning to launch Wispr Flow in January. That would give us four months to get it ready. But I expedited the timeline. Six weeks, gun to your head: What would you do to launch this product? In that month and a half, we spun up an entire marketing operation and did a huge drop on October 1, 2024. It was actually pretty successful ... ... that, we weren't even a consumer software company. By January, we were seeing long posts on LinkedIn and X about how the product had changed people s lives. We also saw ~20% of our users convert to paid (vs

... self-evolving mind. I'm sorry to those of you who want your own WALL-E or Baymax, but AGI isn't here yet. Here is everything you need to know, from the model lineup and ChatGPT s six headline upgrades to vibe coding magic, benchmark records, and more. The models you get As has become the trend in AI model launches, GPT-5 is no single monolith. OpenAI offers five distinct engines for users and developers ... ... output tokens . GPT-5 nano The penny-pincher s dream for massive-scale classification or trigger-phrase detection. Micro-tasks run at $0.05 per 1 M input tokens and $0.40 per 1 M output tokens, with micro-millisecond latency. Six

... move is smashing inefficiencies with smarter tech that helps you work better, not just less. Remote s a start, but it has to be smart working, literally. Comment from D. Ferencha(@d_ferencha): @byalexai  I completely agree, I think six-hour working hours is a much better option. Comment from Borja DR(@borja_diazroig): I haven t tried a 4-day work week myself, but in an ideal scenario, it could boost efficiency: more rest, less burnout, and savings ... ... smarter. However, with my current startup still in its initial stage, there s too much on everyone s plate for me to offer that same flexibility right now. Comment from Aleksandar Blazhev(@byalexai): @banglinhpham  Well, but if the competitors

... provisioned concurrency. I intentionally built with FastAPI backend instead of Next.js backend, and used Amazon SES instead of my usual Mailgun/Resend bros, purely to build a more versatile and cost-effective system. It's a distributed system of about six different microservices, all designed to be independent and resilient. It's probably over-engineered for what it is, but it's blazing fast from here in Switzerland to the US (where data is stored), and I can defend every single ...

... community I m Aaryan, a statistics grad (almost!) and founder of StatSigma a platform I ve quietly built over the past year to make Six Sigma, Operations Research, and Statistical Analytics accessible, interpreted, and useful. Why I built it: While studying stats and working on industry projects, I realized most tools were either too complex, too generic, or just plain outdated. People had the data but didn t have clarity. So I built StatSigma a no-code, auto-interpreting tool ... ... feedback: good, bad, ideas Beta users (it s free!) Mentors & growth ideas If you find it valuable your support Give it a spin: https://app.thestatsigma.com Just explore freely. What do you think makes a data tool actually helpful vs

... Aaryan, a statistics grad (still clearing my last semester) with a deep obsession for chess, code, data analytics, and solving real-world problems through structured thinking. Over the past year, I ve been quietly building StatSigma a Six Sigma and Operations Research analytics platform. Think of it as an all-in-one workspace where students, consultants, researchers, and quality teams can: Run tools like Gage R&R, ANOVA, Regression, CTQ Tree, Pugh Matrix, and more Get professional auto-interpreted ...

... Founder Hey there! I'm Krishna , and I've got a story that probably sounds familiar to a lot of founders out there. It started with me being that developer who couldn't stop building. For about six months, I was deep in the trenches shipping project after project, learning what worked, what didn't, and most importantly, what founders actually needed when they had an idea but no product. Here's what I realized : most brilliant ideas ... ... concept anymore it's something people can actually use, test, and (hopefully) pay for. Our approach is simple: take your vision, strip it down to what matters most, build it beautifully, and get it in front of real users. No six

... didn t set out to build a startup. We just wanted to post content without opening six tabs and fighting with clunky tools. But every platform we tried had the same problems: The pricing felt like a joke (who are these tools built for?) The analytics were embarrassingly bad The UI was somehow both outdated, overdesigned and painful to use And nobody seemed to have a real vision beyond schedule post No way to manage multiple brands Poor collaboration ... ... clutter-free, distraction-free space to: Post across multiple platforms Actually understand what s working with real analytics Collaborate without account-sharing Add a bunch of useful features that you normally need other services for Link in Bio Competitor

... overcome creative blocks. What makes FunBlocks AI Brainstorming different? AI-Powered Idea Generation: Access a vast knowledge base and get inspired by ideas from multiple perspectives, going beyond your own limitations. Built-in Thinking Frameworks: Leverage proven methodologies like Six Thinking Hats and SCAMPER, automatically applied by the AI to explore your topics comprehensively. Interactive AI Mindmaps: Transform complex ideas into clear, visual mind maps in minutes, enhancing understanding and facilitating further development. Progressive Exploration: Dive deep into any subtopic ...

... enhanced, flexible search capabilities. Public API: Extend Atono's functionality with programmatic access to key features and data. As a special thank you to the PH community for your feedback, we re waiving fees on our Business plan for six months. All we ask in return is a 30-minute call to hear about your experience once you ve had time to explore Atono. If you have 60 seconds, give this video a quick view: Atono Build better software together ...

... that actually works. No more opening 17 browser tabs or piecing together solutions from five different answers from 2011. The Student Writing a Paper at 2 AM Jamie has 500 words of a 2,000-word paper due in six hours. The topic? The Socioeconomic Implications of Modernist Literature. Jamie hasn t read a single book on the syllabus. Select notes Double-tap Shift Help me develop this into a coherent argument with textual evidence Is it academic dishonesty? Maybe ...

... fellow PH folks, After 25+ years in design and selling my own design system; Cabana for a six-figure exit (maybe more next time ;), I've noticed consistent patterns in how specific design issues directly impact key SaaS metrics. I'm curious: What design-related challenges are currently impacting your product's growth? For example: User activation below expectations Feature discovery problems Conversion bottlenecks Retention issues tied to product experience Why I'm asking: I'm researching the direct connection ... ... sure users can find key features right where they anticipate them upon first interaction since that s a core part of UX. Comment from Hussein(@hussein_r): Funny enough, I was literally thinking about this recently! Balancing new features vs

... Today has been a tough day for many of us in the tech community. ChatGPT has been down for over six hours along with Claude, Copilot, and Perplexity. How are you doing? Do you rely heavily on these LLM tools? What are your alternatives

... letter calling for companies to stop training powerful AIs. They argue that advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and companies should not be racing to unleash it. The letter calls for a six-month pause, providing time to decide whether developing things that might outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us is a good idea. Meanwhile, a Goldman Sachs report suggested that generative AIs like GPT-4, the most advanced platform ...

... After a year of working on a side project as the CTO of a startup, I am finally ready to launch Beedone. This app has been my passion project and has helped me achieve more of my goals. Six months ago, the app was completed and I fell in love with it. It helped me create habits, establish routines, and even read more books! But the story didn't end there. After the ChatGPT buzz, I reached out to OpenAI ...

... selling SaaS in the last 4 years and bootstrapped everything under my SaaS marketplace PitchGround & my own SaaS FirstSales.io Today, I will share simple strategies for hitting your first $10,000 to $20,000 in MRR in less than six months. This can be applied for most online niches but works best for SaaS. 1) Build in Public on Twitter, LinkedIn & Reddit. Refrain from building your startup in stealth mode; you are wasting so many marketing opportunities. 2) Create ... ... growth-hacking strategies, even if your product doesn't offer those features. Awareness is a critical part of reaching more audiences. - Do one collaboration post each week. 3) Create a community You can start building your community at least six

... familiar browser looks. I ve repeatedly asked the company s management to allow users to change themes for the browser, because this functionality would allow people to customize the window to the Internet as they want. After another six months, we broke the wall and even achieved cooperation with G. In fact, we were afraid that we would be thrown out of the game. Everything went on until a flurry of criticism fell upon us. We ve been ...