Day 1 on Product Hunt: 4 upvotes. Here's what I'm doing differently today
Yesterday I launched Orqis on Product Hunt. Got 4 upvotes — all people I know personally.
I'm not going to pretend that's not a gut punch. But I also knew going in that I had no audience, no email list, and no hunter network. So the result makes sense. I earned it.
What I built: paste an OpenAPI spec URL → get a working AI agent that talks to your API in natural language. No code. The whole thing takes under 60 seconds.
The product works. The distribution doesn't — yet.
So today instead of waiting for traffic that isn't coming, I'm doing things that don't scale:
- Finding developers on Reddit who are manually wiring LLMs to APIs and showing them Orqis
- DMing 10 people who would genuinely get value from it
- Writing this post instead of refreshing my PH page
If you've built anything on top of an API and thought "I wish I could just ask it questions in plain English" — that's exactly what Orqis does. I'd love for you to try it and tell me what's broken.
orqisai.com — free to start, no credit card.
What would you do differently on day 2?
I actually know a few developers connecting LLMs to APIs, and they'd probably be willing to answer any questions you have about their current pain points if you want to share them.