Hi PHers, what is your most precious learning or insight during startup?

Keep learning new things and staying calm, not letting market noise distract you.

the launch requires deep preparation in advance, this applies to both the product itself and the audience.

How to sell is as important as what is selling.

Most people don't give a shit. That's ok. Find the ones that do.

Have a strong belief in your ideas, understand customer needs, build a complementary team, be flexible and adaptable, manage resources effectively, build good relationships, learn from failure, and continuously learn and improve. That's what I learned recently.

Keep It Simple and Stupid!

🤔From MVP to launch, building relationships with our target audience is crucial. Through the process, we can receive a lot of meaningful feedback from followers. For example, our team created 'hummin' (Next week, launching soon😎)! In fact, hummin came about as a result of the careful consideration and effort put into building an audience and sustaining engagement on Twitter. ⭐️If you guys are active users on and would like to be one of them, 'hummin' would be a very useful tool for you to enhance your productivity. 😆

My personal favorite advice is: Don't look too much at other creators or start-ups. They might have more success now, but if your idea is good and you are dedicated to it: Keep working on it and making it better, stay in it at all costs. You will be rewarded eventually!

Launch as early as you can. We had the most valuable launch on Product Hunt when we posted on Hacker News and somebody hunted our product. We knew about the launch 3 days later. 😅

We work to get the job done. Titles don't matter. Seniority doesn't matter. If you see something that should be done, take ownership over it (it doesn't necessarily means you'll be the one ending up doing it). No task is beneath you, or outside of your responsibilities.

Accept the fact that failure is part of the journey and without failure there's no growth.

You CANNOT motivate people. Motivation is intrinsic, and comes within 🌞🎬

Take a risks with investors money, not with your own 😁

My most precious learning for the moment is : never wait to speak to potential users and test your idea first.

Keep going and stay focused

@dot_brand That one needs to be flexible, open to constant iterations, and open to ideas. The best advise can come from the most unexpected source. Oh, and that Distribution > Product.

Launch your idea/product before Google does!

Lear to build ownerships! It's sooo important to build up processes in such way, so every teammate can work and do things autonomously. In start-ups it's possible. (Big corporate companies are so much stupidly complicated, take this as an advantage!) Tip for managers: create a roadmap for your team, where every team member takes an ownership of a particular things. It will save you 100 hours of 'getting since with', 'reviewing' and so on.

The first time we launched ProdCamp on PH we had no payment system... We got hundreds of signups. But nothing to prove the feedback we were receiving was coming from the audience we were looking to listen. When we made Prodcamp a paid subscription and promoted it again we got much more qualitative feedback. Only today after two years of development we are ready to relaunch a free plan ! But lesson learned! Make sure you listen to people that are ready to pay for your product if you want to use feedback to drive your roadmap.

To push through the roadblocks...