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Hi HN, I use ChatGPT and Claude daily for research and coding. I often wish they had direct and fresh access to discussions in the private product, marketing, ideas, and engineering news communities I’m part of on…

Hi there! I am trying to validate a problem I keep seeing at bunch of mid-size companies that run on Slack, Jira, Asana, Confluence, Google Docs, often Figma, email, ... The pain isn’t search. Tools like Glean are good…

Our customers (mostly B2B) have been asking for PDF version of invoices, receipts and whatnot instead of the ones sent as email. Tapdone, my side project. It's like a PDF agent listening to your emails. `Bcc` the…

Hi - I have an app. Certain stages of the funnel require some action, like send text, send email, call certain endpoint. Instead of building everything in code, and for the sake of quicker experimentation (changing…

We are working on a product that could benefit from basic CRM functionality, like Leads and Contacts records, Marketing workflow automations (like webhooks, events), templates (emails, text messages), report, etc. Also,…

Do you log your customer activity to any of the log management platforms, like Splunk, Datadog, Papertrail, Sentry, etc? We do, and most of that data is focused on errors (eg., already registered, bad credit card, etc),…

We've built an internal tool that allowed our business owners to create and edit the logic, that becomes executable, and no longer depends on engineering resources to modify. Here is an example of what we use for…

Does your work need you to spend more than 2 hours per day in SaaS or Web-based service (either commercial, open-source or proprietary)? Dashboard, CRM, CMS, SIS, etc. Any role: marketing, sales, operations, product,…

I'm looking for the Sales / Business Development Manager to join my team. My #1 requirement is being an Entrepreneur. So it's not your typical "sales" role. Second is your priority of Customer Development. Know your…

I'm wondering if anyone is using any type of CRM with your startup/service? Would you mind sharing? Your startup, and CRM that you use, if any? How do you deal with sync'ing client data between your platform and CRM?…

I personally love Launch Ticket http://launchticker.com/ however with it now becoming a paid-only service, some people might find $10-25/mo to be too much to digest. Solution? Use Google. Search for stories in the last…

Hi - I am running a service for new online communities and Web sites to "fake" users and their activity on the site. Basically, we act as content "filers" as well as early stage user study. I don't have a large team to…

Dear fellow HNs - I am looking for real world examples of developers choosing HTML5 over native app (or vice-verse). I would appreciate you sharing with me some of your experience with this choice. It would be helpful…

I'm in customer discovery phase, building a product for eBay sellers, both professional and not. However, I'm struggling to reach out to them - very few of my friends do it. How do you reach out to markets that you are…

A friend of mine runs a small shop, where he and couple of his employees/contractors do the job. He lands a client, gets himself on retainer or on hourly rate, sends invoices out every month, tracks invoices as paid or…

Hi everyone, I am confident that I have no problems to execute any idea. I have a team that is very engineering oriented and very responsive, and I'm engineer-made-to-product guy myself. I have a good enough networking…

I am building a company to help new startups acquire and retain customers through the effective and analyzable communication. http://bit.ly/bDe4n7 Would you help me to research and define if there is a product/market…

Hi! I'm working on discovering the potential group of customers for the product that I'm working on. This is going to be some form of a communication platform, that is easily accessible and configurable by non-technical…

Can you please advise a good bank for a small startup to open business checking and, potentially, credit? I've heard good things about SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) and First Republic to keep your account there. As well as…

Hi guys, I'm looking for a good advice. (Yes, I'm assuming this is not a legal advice and you're unlikely professional accountants here. ;) But real world experience is what values.) We're forming a new S-corp. I'm…