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Jan Hilgard

@hilgard
Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
@JanHilgard

Products

  • Discury
    2024 — present

    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.

  • Hosting90
    Acquired (2020)

    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.

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Recent activity

  • Commented onI ran my idea-validation product through its own validator. The verdict was PIVOT.2026-05-26
  • Commented on30k views on Reddit, top comment: “garbage spyware”. What I learned from shipping my first side project2026-05-26
  • Commented onDoes anyone else waste hours every Monday checking competitor websites?2026-05-26
  • Commented on30 days ago I posted here with $0 revenue. Here's what actually happened next.2026-05-26
  • Commented onmy reddit post got 600K+ views. here's exactly what i did2026-05-26
  • Commented onHow to spot high-intent customers in 5 minutes, for free.2026-05-26
  • Commented onStrangers on the internet explained our product better than we did2026-05-26
  • Commented on1 week to launch but waitlist isn't filling: delay until critical mass or ship now?2026-05-26
  • Commented onHow do you know if your product actually solves a real problem?2026-05-22
  • Commented onI thought bookkeeping software problems were accounting problems. I was wrong.2026-05-22
  • Commented onI made a mistake every first-time founder makes — I built first, validated later. Here's what I'd do differently.2026-05-22
  • Commented on$19.30 MRR after 16 extensions: what I learned from pausing HN2026-05-22
  • Commented on3 weeks in, 2 free trials from strangers — what actually surprised me2026-05-22
  • Commented onProduct Hunt is done. I have 1 sign-up and $0 MRR. Here's how I'm thinking about finding my first paying customer.2026-05-22
  • Commented onStrangers on the internet explained our product better than we did2026-05-22
  • Commented onStrangers on the internet explained our product better than we did2026-05-20
  • Commented onStrangers on the internet explained our product better than we did2026-05-19
  • Commented onStrangers on the internet explained our product better than we did2026-05-18
  • Commented onStrangers on the internet explained our product better than we did2026-05-17
  • Commented onWhere do you save promising prospects before they are CRM-worthy?2026-05-17

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