Tell HN: If you're launching an AI product, please do it without a waitlist

7 points·tikkun··2 comments

The era of getting interest from waitlists for AI products is hopefully over. As a user, I now hope to see the ability to sign up, or failing that an interactive demo, and failing that a demo video.

If it's an interactive demo and a waitlist to help you handle an influx of users, that seems fine.

Though a pure waitlist at this point without clearly showing the product isn't ideal.

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And as a side note, that's also HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

"Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread."

"Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, ideally without barriers such as signups or emails. You'll get more feedback that way.

If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers."

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Unless the product is like still in development, right?

We're getting flooded with products that are just thin veneers over ChatGPT, which is fine. But some products require clearing a massive R&D hurdle. Sharing what you are working on, building a list of interested folks, and onboarding them when the time is right is critical for 'hard tech' products, even ones using AI.

Some of my favorite products were ones I learned about before launch. I was even an important beta tester to one of them.

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