Ilyas Baba

Building 6 products in 12 weeks | Ex-Lazard & Barclays | All on

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

@MohakBajaj5 Congrats ! The sale came from HN Show ?

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

▲ Claude Fable 5.2 @AnthropicAI
▲ Term Sheet, Please @bolau_
▲ Tiny València @13ug1mb
▲ Caramel-1 @naklecha
▲ Yogurt @christianmat
▲ bo2-mac
▲ Klad
▲ Faraway
▲ Gemini 4 Carbon @GoogleDeepMind
▲ Lynx @yakkomajuri

Vote: https://t.co/iqYzg7vfBt

P.S. Know the makers behind the untagged ones? Tag them below!

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

25launches · Thu, Nov 12
23 visitors yesterday (x2.5)
1 votes
Real numbers, every day.

Yesterday's winner:
🥇 MeowDisplay @raiseCatError

10 launches today, vote for your favorite. Full list in the video and the first reply 👇

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

@MohakBajaj5 @amypretzel @nuance_ai @armaangupt0 @CoderLuii @raiseCatError @_nghialuong @bnjorogedev @dodaios Thanks Mohak, Jot is a great pick.
How was the Show HN?

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

25launches · Wed, Nov 11

9 visitors yesterday, 0 votes (had to fix a bug).
Real numbers, every day.

11 launches today, vote for your favorite.

Full list in the video and the first reply 👇

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

@ThamiBenjelloun 100% agree !

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

@Claude_Memory @AarushYadav47 @max_sixty @LiorGrossman Subvocal is wild, but I believe in you too.

Votes are open for 24 hours. Let's see tomorrow how people voted.

Feel free to go vote :) https://t.co/oxOMA3hqpE

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

25launches, day 1.

Yesterday: 0 products launched.
Visitor tracking starts today.

Today's launches include:
@AarushYadav47 and @Arnkum_Avar, type by silently mouthing words
@Claude_Memory, memory for coding agents
@max_sixty, git worktrees for parallel agents

The full list is in the reply.

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

@i_mika_el Watch me 😊

By the way, do you believe that the top products on PH are ranked based on merit?

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

I launched 6 products on Product Hunt in 6 weeks. I'm still not verified, and I still don't really understand how the ranking works.

So I'm building my own launch platform: https://t.co/3oTVvQECd2

The idea is simple. The ranking algorithm will be open source, so anyone can see how it works. And every day I'll share the previous day's traffic publicly. Good days and bad days.

I don't know yet if anyone will come. The first numbers will probably be small. We'll see where it goes.

If you've launched something recently, what would you want from a launch platform?

[Teddy Riner @teddyriner]

La résignation n'est pas une option. Face aux difficultés de notre pays, l'heure est venue de prendre ses responsabilités.

Je suis candidat à l'élection présidentielle de 2027. 

#TeddyRiner2027 #Présidentielle2027 #LaFrancequonveut

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

Product Hunt is **********

I feel like it's a Ponzi scheme.

1. It's been more than 6 weeks, and I'm still not verified.

2. Every time you launch, you have 100 profiles adding you on LinkedIn and promising you a top 3 spot in exchange for payment.

3. The system feels like a dictatorship where everyone is trying to please the nobles.

4. The ranking is completely opaque: "Confidential algorithm," they say.

5. I'm not convinced by the quality of the traffic. I'd like to hear from you if your experience has been different.

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

@tiboadriana $2M, pre or post money ?
That's a big difference.
Send me the term sheet and I will tell you

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

I failed to explain Open Source to an M&A Managing Director.

For context, I used to be an investment banker, and now... (a topic for another post).

I felt like I was having the same conversation as in the well-known story of the investor and the fisherman.

Briefly, for those who don't know it: an investor watches a fisherman fishing by a lake. Every day, the fisherman catches what he needs and feeds his family.

The investor, who's on vacation, suggests that he raise debt, buy a fleet of boats, and structure sophisticated financial deals.

And each time, the fisherman asks why. The answer is always the same: more profit.

Eventually, the investor tells him that he'll be able to retire early and finally do what he enjoys: fishing by the lake.

The astonished fisherman replies that this is exactly what he's already doing.

The difficulty in both stories, whether it's the fisherman or Open Source, is that they involve two very opposing beliefs, almost hermetically sealed off from each other.

And I think there's no point in pitting them against each other.

The financier might see Open Source as a naive system, just as the fisherman might see the financier as a vulture.

The truth, if there is one, perhaps transcends both :)

But that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

PS. I haven't given up hope of explaining Open Source to the MD.

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

@ShipReelStudio https://t.co/LHTcUzv3Kf

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

I launched 6 products on Product Hunt in the last 6 weeks, and here is what I learned:

1/ Unless you are featured, don't spend a lot of effort on your launch day. The effort is not worth it.

2/ I used to think that launching gives you a dofollow backlink. It seems it doesn't.

3/ Interacting on PH before the launch and preparing the product page are important. Featuring seems to be done manually.

4/ Launch a small project first. You will learn a lot!

PS. I am launching tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

Analysis by https://t.co/LHTcUzv3Kf

[Ilyas Baba @ilyas129777]

Linkedin : Picture or without a picture ? Link in the comment section or in the post ? which language ?

Guess the only way to find out is to test your data.

PS. each one has its own algorithm