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Shawn Cao
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Test interests - collect waitlist and see how far it goes.
Test business - sign up with $1 reserve fee to get notified when product is ready.
disclaimer: the first one works for me, but the second one is just an idea.
What's the fastest way to validate a product idea?
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What is the most effective (social) platform for your product (non-ads)? do you know why?
I was looking at what's best external link drives the best conversion rate (30d time window) for our product (Fina), I think overall PH does a decent job, it makes me curious to post a question here:
What is the most effective (social) platform for your product in terms of organic growth? And do you know why?
I think many factors play a role, such as audience type, size of reach, relevance,...
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A year ago, we launched the Fina MVP. Thousands of people supported this product, motivating us to continue its development.
Today, we are launching Fina V1, code-named "Fina Essential" - the official release of the most flexible financial management system available.
After reviewing numerous standard budget apps, we firmly believe that each user deserves a personalized experience. Therefore,...
Fina
Build Your Own Financial Tracking System
Fina allows people to build their own financial tracking systems. It's like Notion for your finances.
Create custom pages with unique tracking scenarios to stay on top of your money. Say goodbye to manual spreadsheets and cookie-cutter dashboards.
Fina
Build Your Own Financial Tracking System
Shawn Cao
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Meet you again - Fina V1
A year ago, we launched the Fina MVP. Thousands of people supported this product, motivating us to continue its development.
Today, we are launching Fina V1, code-named "Fina Essential" - the official release of the most flexible financial management system available.
Be online in a couple of hours: https://www.producthunt.com/products/fina
If you haven't explored Fina yet, we invite you to...
Shawn Cao
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The feeling of being `mediocre` really bites
I started the startup journey about 2 years ago after working ~18 years in big corps, have built 2 or 3 products along the line, I have good endurance, I love the things we are working on, the team is great, super talented and wonderful people.
Sometimes, the feeling of "mediocre" really bites me, the feeling makes me drown in the darkness that denies myself and denies the products to be...
Shawn Cao
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AI Era: what LLM model do you choose?
Fina Money uses LLM to power up its answer to users' financial questions. Initially using OpenAI's API. Observed the slow response on GPT-4 model, it makes me think, are there any alternatives that we may consider to balance the workload?
However, not all LLM models have the same quality to achieve the accuracy we want, this makes me test out a list of models available, and have a sense about...
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It's a good sub name, but very slow to grow, no ideas how to recruit more members
https://www.reddit.com/r/fina/
Do you have a sub Reddit for your product?
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Shawn Cao
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Is it too long for 1 year to relaunch?
We launched Fina 1 year ago (5/26/2023), wow, it took us an entire year to lift the product to its next level that we think we want to launch on PH again (5/22/2024).
Is this too long for a startup? I heard people told me that this is not startup speed! :) How often to relaunch is a startup speed?
To warm up the new launch, I wrote a short article to introduce what Fina looks like now:...
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If we think they both have credit scores, currently:
Wikipedia=100
AI=50
As time passes, the AI credit score is probably going up, how far it can go will determine Wikipedia's fate.
Does AI mean the end of Wikipedia?
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Shawn Cao
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"Enable anyone to present data easily." - mission incomplete by Columns.
What pain points does your product solve?
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make sure others don't get superpowers, and then do whatever I want, haha~
If you could have any superpower, what would you choose?
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Shawn Cao
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Founders: when do you think you have to raise funds instead of continuing bootstrapping?
I look forward to learning many different reasons, and hopefully, we can make some consensus at last.
Shawn Cao
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I think this is good question - interested to learn what other folks think.
What do you think would be future of SEO amidst Google I/O Update & ChatGPT stuff happening around?
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Shawn Cao
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Looking for a great partner UX designer
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Thank you for the community to support Columns launch on 6/6, I think we had a good moment engaging with people on the platform, thank you!
This is a transparent letter to the public, I wish you can help share it with friends you know, who might be interested in the journey!
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[Future]
Here is our product position: Columns is the ultimate AI storyteller for your data wherever they are....
Shawn Cao
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Shameless plug the little thing I built and used daily - use ChatGPT to find public data to visualize automatically for sharing.
I also use ChatGPT to copy unstructured data into structured one before visualization if I can copy some data somewhere such as a tweet.
👉 https://columns.ai/chatgpt
What are some cool AI projects you found recently?
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