Jan Hilgard

CTO @ Discury — turning 70M+ Reddit/HN/SO/Product Hunt conversations into customer insights for B2B SaaS founders. AI agents, RAG pipelines, programmatic SEO. Building in public from Prague 🇨🇿

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Discury
Customer intelligence from real conversations. Pulls pain points, feature gaps and emerging trends out of 70M+ Reddit, HN, Stack Overflow and Product Hunt threads. Built originally as an internal tool for my own SaaS pipeline.
2024 — present
Hosting90
Hosting and web services company I founded in 2002 and ran for 18 years. Acquired by WY Group / Ignum in September 2020. Bootstrapped from zero through profitable growth to a successful exit.
Acquired (2020)

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I ran my idea-validation product through its own validator. The verdict was PIVOT.

30k views on Reddit, top comment: “garbage spyware”. What I learned from shipping my first side project

Does anyone else waste hours every Monday checking competitor websites?

30 days ago I posted here with $0 revenue. Here's what actually happened next.

my reddit post got 600K+ views. here's exactly what i did

How to spot high-intent customers in 5 minutes, for free.

Strangers on the internet explained our product better than we did

1 week to launch but waitlist isn't filling: delay until critical mass or ship now?

How do you know if your product actually solves a real problem?

I thought bookkeeping software problems were accounting problems. I was wrong.

I made a mistake every first-time founder makes — I built first, validated later. Here's what I'd do differently.

$19.30 MRR after 16 extensions: what I learned from pausing HN

3 weeks in, 2 free trials from strangers — what actually surprised me

Product Hunt is done. I have 1 sign-up and $0 MRR. Here's how I'm thinking about finding my first paying customer.

Strangers on the internet explained our product better than we did

Strangers on the internet explained our product better than we did

Strangers on the internet explained our product better than we did

Strangers on the internet explained our product better than we did

Strangers on the internet explained our product better than we did

Where do you save promising prospects before they are CRM-worthy?