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How do you know when it’s time to give up on a startup idea?

Alex Cloudstar:@talshyn 😂 probably

How much are you willing to pay for influencer promotion of your product?

Alexandre Naud:Didn't know about this influencer pricing but it seems fine to me! 💯

I just bought patron.com by flying across the country to meet the owner in person

Talshyn Nova:Seriously, mad respect for the hustle 🚀 It's a great reminder that sometimes the biggest deals are just conversations!

How do you know when it’s time to give up on a startup idea?

Talshyn Nova:If the required caffeine level is higher than my user count, it might be time 😅

Is SaaS becoming MAAS thanks to MCP? 🤔 Let’s talk.

Thomas Schranz ⛄️:I don't think MCP is replacing SaaS but I think it makes a lot of sense for many SaaS products to also provide access via an MCP. I wonder what the best way to expose existing functionality is though. Does it make sense to offer everything you have an API for also via MCP? I think it's quite possible also to start something new as MCP first and then over time build it into an MCP + SaaS. For example I started to do more and more technical SEO tasks within Claude Code. But that is a bit slow as it involves many steps. So I started to move some of it into tools of an MCP and now the MCP is part of the Findable LLM SEO toolkit. You can find the Technical SEO MCP here https://www.producthunt.com/products/technical-seo-mcp (currently #3 app of the day on Product Hunt) I think SaaS is here to stay but MCP is a great additional way to make your SaaS more useful to your users.

What Makes a Meaningful Pursuit for an Early-Stage Startup?

Thomas Schranz ⛄️:I also think it helps to pick a problem space you really like. Marry the problem, not the solution. Whatever your v0.1 is might not be exactly what people need but if you have a great problem space you will learn more about it and eventually find things that you can solve in it. That's also why I think "Agents" and building tools for agents in a problem space can be a great way to start out. Because instead of thinking about how you name your product or how the website should look like or what kind of UI to build you can focus on which tasks you want to give an agent that would be useful to it and you can observe how the agent is using the tools and then add more tools and improve existing tools as you learn more. What might look like pivoting if it were a landing page is just iterating on making the agent + tools better. Anecdote: I recently started to use Claude Code not only for coding but also for doing technical SEO like analyzing robots.txt for crawl rules for search engine crawlers (e.g. Google, Bing, Brave, …) but also ai crawlers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa and so on) as well as Google Core Web Vitals checks. Then I realized even though Claude Code can do this well it is quite slow as there are many manual steps involved and between each step Claude Code does a lot of thinking. So I started to move more and more functionality into an MCP. (Technical SEO MCP, currently #3 on Product Hunt https://www.producthunt.com/products/technical-seo-mcp) And now Technical SEO MCP not only works in Claude Code but also in Google Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex CLI, Amp, LM Studio and many more. So it even runs without a Claude or ChatGPT subscription. I think the same step by step process will work for other problem spaces as well.

MCP Servers will give you superpowers.

Thomas Schranz ⛄️:If you find the agent is doing some manual steps over and over again that's a great moment to stop and think if you can move some of what the agent does to a CLI tool or to an MCP. Might even make a great product. Chances are if you need it others will need it as well. I have started to use Claude Code for technical SEO and over time realized that while it works well it is a bit slow at it so I moved some of the steps (e.g. analyzing robots.txt and checking core web vitals) to an MCP and now I have the best of both worlds: a powerful agent + fast tool use via MCP. (you can find Technical SEO MCP over here, just launched it today and currently #3 🏆 https://www.producthunt.com/products/technical-seo-mcp)

How much are you willing to pay for influencer promotion of your product?

Azvya Erstevan:We are trying to grow PingPolls through affiliate marketing, not one-off influencer shoutouts. Still figuring out the right partners, but the idea is to let creators earn long term by sharing polls that their audience actually wants to fill in. Engagement feels better than paying for static posts, but finding the right affiliates is the hard part.

Claude Code & Agent Teams: What Roles Actually Work for Vibecoding in the Cloud?

Thomas Schranz ⛄️:It's not really a Claude Code subagent (yet) but I've started to use Claude Code more and more also for technical SEO. But for some technical SEO tasks it helps when the agent doesn't have to do all the steps (would take too long) and instead calls out to something more efficient like a command line tool or MCP. That's why I eventually built an MCP around the SEO use case (https://www.producthunt.com/products/technical-seo-mcp). I think into your list would also fit an agent specific for deployment and one for log analysis. That said: do you see an advantage from having these specific agent definitions vs just prompting Claude Code directly? One of the main advantages of subagents and the "task" concept in Claude Code is that you can save a lot of tokens in your main token window when you can pass a task to a subagent. In some cases Claude Code will even run them in parallel. That was an unexpected advantage of the agent concept for me.

How much are you willing to pay for influencer promotion of your product?

Sanooj Surendranath:Still trying to figure out how to measure the effectiveness of influencer marketing. Wonder why we are not using CPM/CPC for all channels?