u/AnnaOwner2084

Ran a research project with Claude on Product Hunt launches for startups and side projects.

The headline data: out of 500 SaaS launches analyzed, 487 were effectively dead within a few months. My first reaction was pure "wow, these numbers are insane." Genuinely felt like shock content. I carried it around in my head for a few days.

Then something nagged at me, so I went back and asked one simple question: "what time period was this analysis based on?" For context, the entire thread was framed around my current tasks, current timeframe. So I assumed the data was current too.

Honest answer: January to June 2024.

Facepalm. Thanks, bro 😂

Not a complaint about the tool. The number wasn't wrong. It just quietly time-traveled two years back and didn't think to mention it.

So, real question for the founders and operators here: how do you actually work with all this? What's your move for catching the quietly-outdated part before you build on it?

Hello everyone, founder here. I've spent 12 years running growth for my companies, and over the last year I ran 355 custdev interviews. The same pattern kept showing up: businesses don't lose because they can't produce marketing. They lose because nothing connects. Sales hears the same objection for months and the website never changes. Support answers the same confused question daily and the next campaign ignores it. Experiment #12 gets launched by someone who never heard about experiment #4.

So I built OpenWay AI around that problem, and I'm looking for beta users to break it.

What it does, in plain terms: it builds a persistent Business Memory of your company from your website, meetings, emails, files, and connected tools (for example, Gmail, HubSpot, Stripe, Notion, Mailchimp, Asana, Linear, Google Ads, Meta Ads, Google Analytics). On top of that memory it runs a loop: spot a signal, form a hypothesis with the reasoning and measurement plan, launch the test after your approval, measure, and write the learning back. It never re-proposes something you already tested.

What you can actually do with it today, not on a roadmap:

Describe a product or idea in one line and get a website built and published on your own domain: market research, competitor analysis, design, images, copy.
Record a sales call and get customer insights to your positioning. The objections from that call become new copy on your site, so the page answers them before the next call does.
Ask and get a real A/B test: version A, version B built to beat it, live traffic split between them, winner explained in plain language with the numbers.
Run outreach campaigns from idea to inbox, with reply classification and hot lead scoring on what comes back.
Let it create and manage ad campaigns with approval-gated bidding and budgets, and see sales attribution for every ad.
Get scheduled reports about your business delivered to your inbox every week.

Who I'm looking for: a live business with customers, revenue, usable data, and one clear growth problem you actually want to solve.

What I'm asking: run at least one real experiment through it in your first week and tell me where it felt wrong. Brutal honesty preferred. I do the onboarding personally, which is the real reason the group is small.

What you get: founding pricing at $99/month, and you keep that price for as long as you remain a customer.

Link - openway.ai
Happy to answer anything about how the memory and the hypothesis engine work under the hood.

Magic Yellowstone 🤩

I make real business decisions on AI research. This one was two years out of date and never said so. I will not promote

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Looking for 15 businesses with real customers to test an AI-managed growth loop on their own data

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