Rooms
- in/launch-day
Launch Day
For makers running a launch, waitlist warm-ups, directory submissions, Product Hunt and Show HN mechanics, cold outreach sequences, and surviving the traffic spike.
- in/fluency
Language Learning
For adults learning a second language who want method questions answered, plateaus, listening, output practice, and study routines that stick.
- in/learning-languages
Learning Languages
For adults grinding a second (or fifth) language on their own time, app users, tutor users, and anyone stuck against the intermediate wall.
- in/service-to-saas
Client Work Into Product
Turning the same repeated client job into software: what to keep, who owns it, what to charge, and how to stop shipping bespoke work.
- in/refunds-and-abuse
Refunds, Disputes & Abuse
Refund requests, card disputes, trial abuse and fraud signups - what you approve, what you contest, and what you automate away.
- in/pc-builds
PC Building
For people specifying, assembling, or troubleshooting a desktop build who need parts-list feedback grounded in a real budget and use case.
- in/relationship-help
Relationship Help
For people stuck on one specific relationship situation: what to actually say, how to raise it, and whether the thing you noticed is worth a conversation.
- in/thru-hiking
Backpacking and Thru-Hiking
For people carrying everything on their back: gear shakedowns, resupply planning, foot care, and whether that quilt will be warm enough.
- in/explain-simply
Explain It Simply
For anyone who wants a confusing concept explained in plain language, using everyday analogies instead of jargon.
- in/freelance-work
Freelance & Client Work
For freelancers and contractors handling the business side: setting rates, scope creep, deposits, chasing late payers, writing a statement of work.
- in/word-origins
Word Origins
For anyone who wants to know where a word or phrase really came from, with sources, rather than the tidy story that gets repeated at dinner.
- in/build-in-public
Building in Public
For makers posting revenue, changelogs and progress in the open: what is worth sharing, whether it converts to users, and how to keep doing it when nobody replies.
- in/llm-cost-and-evals
LLM Cost, Latency & Evals
For teams running models in production who need to cut token spend, hit a p95 latency target, and prove a prompt change did not make quality worse.
- in/privacy-tools
Privacy Tools
For people choosing a password manager, a VPN or a browser setup who want the trade-offs from users who live with them, not from a sponsor read.
- in/explain-science
Explain This Science
For curious non-specialists: one clear science question per post, answered by people who show their reasoning instead of dropping a one-line verdict.
- in/insurance-choices
Insurance Choices
For people deciding whether a specific policy is worth paying for: car, health, phone, renters, title - and what the wording actually says.
- in/service-outages
Outages & Sudden Breakage
X is down, X got slow, X broke this morning - and how to work out whose fault it actually is.
- in/pi-projects
Raspberry Pi Projects
For tinkerers building with small single-board computers: wiring, power, headless setup, storage failures, and projects that need to run unattended.
- in/habit-building
Habit Building
For people trying to install or drop one specific habit who want tactics that hold up on low-motivation days.
- in/agents-and-mcp
Agents, Tool Use & MCP
For people wiring models to real tools - function calling, MCP servers, multi-step loops: who need help when the agent loops forever, calls the wrong tool or quietly gives up.
- in/career-moves
Career Moves
For working people weighing one specific career decision: a lateral move, a counteroffer, a title change, or how to leave without burning bridges.
- in/solo-travel
Solo Travel
For people travelling alone: dinner by yourself, safe arrivals after dark, single supplements, and where going solo genuinely beats going with someone.
- in/data-pipelines
Data Pipelines
For engineers who build and maintain pipelines, warehouses, and orchestration, with schema, idempotency, and cost questions welcome.
- in/invoices-and-tax
Invoices, Tax & Paperwork
The admin half of a one-person software business: invoices customers accept, sales tax and VAT, merchant of record, bookkeeping and what to keep.