Founders publish their own breakdowns: what they earned or lost, over what period, and what actually worked. We extract four things from such posts — the number, the period, the channel and the takeaway — and keep the link so every number can be re-read at the source. Failure is just as useful here: if three teams shut down for the same reason, that is knowledge normally bought with years.
An AI-powered platform that helps startups find their ideal customer, build a profile, write emails, and book the first meeting.
Startup founders prefer product development over sales, leading to failure even if the product is good.
The product helped SaaS founders with analytics.
Building in public, targeted outreach, and consistent interaction across multiple channels are key for SaaS growth.
A LinkedIn tool that helps automate outbound messaging.
Frequent changes to pricing and offers without proper synchronization across all systems led to customer loss and reduced effectiveness.
This tool simplifies creating landing pages, collecting feedback, and managing early users for founders and developers.
Posting on Reddit can quickly attract a significant number of interested early-stage product users.
LaunchPact tracks product launches on Product Hunt to help other projects launch more successfully.
Launching on Product Hunt on weekends can be more effective for getting the 'Product of the Day' badge due to less competition, even if overall traffic is lower.
A platform for Bol and Amazon sellers that helps manage orders, multi-channel inventory, and pricing.
The product failed due to a lack of marketing and sales, despite continuous feature improvements.
FetchSandbox helps developers debug code by reproducing errors in an isolated environment and verifying fixes.
When relaunching on Product Hunt, it's important to choose the 'New launch under existing product' option to avoid losing your accumulated subscriber base.
An offer to help startups acquire their first 1000 users.
Posting a free help offer on a niche subreddit led to significant responses from startup founders.
The product helped companies process incoming inquiries, answer questions, follow up with silent leads, and guide interested clients toward a sale or booking.
The author got confused between 'this makes economic sense' and 'people urgently want this'.
Pluribus is an open-source CLI for sharing and auditing context between AI coding tools.
Product distribution didn't generate expected interest, and the product's taxonomy expanded faster than consumers were found.
A cloud security platform that unifies all cloud storage in one place and encrypts all data client-side for businesses.
Incorrectly defining the problem and its scope led to the closure of the first product version and a complete rebuild.
Where the stories come from: founder communities on Reddit (r/startups, r/SaaS, r/SideProject, r/EntrepreneurRideAlong, r/Entrepreneur, r/indiehackers, r/productfails and others) through the official API, plus crowdfunding campaigns. Numbers are taken from the post text — what the author wrote themselves. We do not decode charts or screenshots, so this section only holds numbers you can re-read at the link; unverified ones are marked separately and never feed into idea scores.