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Shawn Cao
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a thought of building a network has been ghosting me for long

Okay - we started with building a tool, like many, we try to sell utility value to people. And then, we hit a growth bottleneck, so many paths opening ahead, some examples: 1. some key improvement / feature may change it completely. 2. we need resources to the marketing side to boost growth. 3. go building network around the tooling space, connect people to foster hyper growth. Well, time...
Shawn Cao
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no guarantee - most of the time, I feel the nature is full of mystery. so probably, luck?
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What’s the key to making a product or campaign go viral?
Shawn Cao
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I thought 3 words for them: efficiency, shortcut or breakthrough?
Do you prefer work tools, life hacks, or unique products?
Shawn Cao
Fina is a flexible financial tracking tool that helps people gain control over their money. Welcome to money management made easy!
Fina Money
Fina Money
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Shawn Cao
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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,...
Shawn Cao
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
Fina
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Shawn Cao
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
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...
Shawn Cao
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:...