Yesterday, I had an unpleasant experience. For a few minutes, I lost my LinkedIn community of several thousand people (TL;DR: I was falsely accused of using suspicious software).

Fortunately, I got my account back but it was a strong reminder that we don t own platforms, nor our profiles on them.

Today I read in the news that X is offering a $1 million prize to the author of the most popular long-form X Article published by January 30, 2026, as part of its push to grow long-form content on the platform.

Eligible articles must be original, at least 1,000 words, and winners will be judged mainly on Verified Home Timeline impressions. Only U.S.-based X Premium subscribers can participate.

Not really much, and it annoys me a bit. In exactly 14 days (28. 1.) we will launch the product, and the only thing I do is talk about it.

But yes, there are points that I still want to master by then, e.g.:

• Create an informational newsletter inviting people to follow our product page

• Create a list of people who could support us and ask them for help

• Announcements on social networks

• Inform Kickstarter backers who supported us with updates this is also an audience

• Publishing a Product Hunt badge on the landing page

• Continually grow and maintain a personal brand which should be a long-term goal, not just for launch purposes.

I've been contributing to discussions every single day for over 3 years now, and sometimes it's really hard.

One day, I have a great time coming up with topics, and then there are those days when I just stare at the screen and can't type. But I always manage to find a way.

In about 17 days (I hope I m counting correctly), I ll be re-launching the mobile app, and now I m wondering how much the Product Hunt community will try it out.

I spend 100% of my time on a desktop on this platform.

But the majority of the population is mobile-only.

I spend most of my time on these two things:
1) observing products on the main page and upvoting/commenting on them

2) talking with people within comments under my forums

The second one is the one where I notice some things that I lack and see possible improvements, namely:

Whenever I browse product launches, I somehow subconsciously judge not only the product itself and its quality, but also the quality that is reflected in the effort the makers put into preparing it.

It may sound insignificant, but in my case, these things also make a significant difference:

• Icon GIF at the launch it enlivens the overall impression and is dynamic

• Quality graphics and video

• First, a properly filled-out comment

• Photos in the makers' profiles (it's less trustworthy for me when there's only the letter "J" or something similar)

• Whether any of my contacts or acquaintances on the platform reacted to the launch

I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who tried Planelo after the launch and took the time to share feedback, suggestions, and bug reports.

I ve been going through all of it carefully and I m already working on a new update that focuses on fixing the most painful issues first and polishing the overall experience.
An improved version with these fixes will be live very soon

If you want to be part of shaping Planelo further, I d love to invite you to join our Discord community.
That s where you can:

• share feature ideas and improvements

• report bugs or UX issues

• discuss workflows and use cases

• influence what I build next

At the beginning, my reason was very simple: I needed a job and I genuinely liked the product.

I graduated with a Marketing degree, but I never felt like I belonged in agencies or similar environments. It just wasn t for me. At the same time, I didn t have much experience in tech either. So I took a leap of faith and applied for a Customer Support role, almost blindly.

The early days were tough. I had no technical background, no real understanding of how apps were built, and everything felt overwhelming. But the product itself became my motivation. I started from the most basic things: learning simple technical terms, understanding how an app is structured, and slowly exploring how everything works behind the scenes.

Hey all,

It s that time of year where if you re not writing a year ahead post, then what are you even doing?

Imagine taking your entire AI conversation history and context with you, across every platform you use.
That's what we've built with AI Context Flow. We already support ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, and Perplexity. What more should we support?
Vote and drop a comment if you have specific platforms in mind. Your input directly shapes our roadmap.

1. Describe the problem:

I am a startup founder. My problem is periodic emotional burnout and a certain loneliness on this journey, especially when a project requires a long time and a huge amount of effort to get it off the ground to the first tangible results (on average, this takes 2-3 years).
During the "low points" (once every few months), there is no one to honestly and kindly discuss fear, uncertainty, difficulties, or failure with, without judgment. And at the same time, to get real emotional support to avoid abandoning my project, especially if it is promising.
I don't want to bother my wife and loved ones too much either, and my non-startup friends don't really understand my "pains." Existing communities and mentors solve business problems but don't provide the psychological support of a "brother in arms." I would like to have some kind of safe space for regular group calls where one can vent and get support from other founders.
Perhaps the solution should involve some sort of AI moderator that would facilitate the meetings and guide the entire group for the desired effect, and at the end of the meeting provide useful recommendations and assess the match between group participants.

Many of you sometimes write to me in DMs asking how to position yourself on Product Hunt.

From the question, I always get the feeling that people want to speed up the process, publish something quickly, get a high position in the ranking of launched products and a badge. But this is a long-term game.

Two days ago I saw this thread about how we are having more launches in post-GPT era.
And a question was born in my head: what quantity is optimal now? Of course, you can often see a trend among builders on X, where they launch a project per month, then roughly 4 months later 1 project takes off and we don't see new projects for the next 6 months because the person is busy scaling (and that's ok, testing a hypothesis shouldn't take much time)
But still, what pace should be considered right? 12 in 12 months slow in modern reality. Launch a product in a day? Unrealistic (SEO, ads, app approvals, various settings and optimizations). Theeeeen...48 products a year?
Or should we look at this from another angle, where LLMs allow us to create 12 products in 12 months with more features and better quality? What's the community's opinion?

Agents can complete actions reliably,
but accountability for direction and outcomes
still sits with humans.

That creates a clearer map,

This is a recurring topic here and I recently had many related discussions. So, I wanted to share with you three different stories, three different perspectives and approaches for inspiration.

TL,DR: IMHO There's no perfect day to launch. Just launch it.

The old sequence looks like this:

Profile Paywall Lost in a Catalog Investor List Cold Outreach

It s a storefront, not a strategy.

Platforms like Fundable has no personalized matching,

Hey folks,

Here's what we're working on actively & planning to release with next update:

• Automatic capture of memories/data entered by users.

• Support for select/radio/checkbox fields

• Alternate fill modes that trigger superfill.ai autofill directly from webpage without the need to open extension UI

Teams aren t just adding AI into existing workflows.
They re reshaping the workflows themselves with the AI agent in the loop.

Steps get removed.
Objectives become clearer.
Old constraints disappear.
Processes reorganize around what the system can now do natively.

The real productivity gain isn t automation.
It s rethinking the architecture entirely.

Curious to hear from this crowd:
What s one workflow you rebuilt because AI made the old version irrelevant?