Launched QuantGold AI on Product Hunt today - proving a trading signal in the open before asking anyone to pay real money for it
QuantGold AI just went live on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/quantgold-ai
Quick context for anyone following along - this is one of 5 products I run solo, and the one furthest along on the trading-signal side. It turns XAU/USD (gold) 5-minute price action into clear entry/exit signals, built specifically for traders growing small accounts step by step instead of chasing home runs.
The part I care most about: before pushing anyone toward real-money trading, I am running the signal engine in the open on a public paper account. You can watch the actual results (win rate, drawdown, everything) instead of trusting marketing copy. Starter plan is $30/mo (or $9.90/mo for members), 14-day free trial either way.
Still working through the usual new-account trust gates on Product Hunt/Reddit that this community talks about a lot - this is my second product launched there after a first one earlier this month. Happy to compare notes with anyone else navigating the same distribution grind.
Love this angle, honestly. What made you look into it in the first place?
Good instinct, proving it works before charging for it removes a lot of the trust problem upfront. Following to see how the open proof period goes — curious if it changes people's willingness to pay once you do start charging.
Publishing the public paper account is a strong trust asset, but I’d turn the launch into a time-boxed proof funnel rather than optimizing for raw Product Hunt votes. Track visitors → signal-page views → paper-account follows → trial starts by source, and show a weekly cohort with sample size, max drawdown, and losing periodsnot just win rate. For distribution, ask each early trader what decision they made differently after seeing a signal, then use those exact words in one narrow trader community at a time; that will tell you whether the bottleneck is trust, comprehension, or channel fit. A public changelog of signal revisions and invalidated calls could compound credibility faster than adding more features.
The public paper account is a useful trust test. Are traders actually becoming more willing to pay as the live results accumulate, or does performance transparency still not overcome the risk of trading signals?