To encourage real experimentation, we re offering 5 million free tokens on first API usage so devs and teams can test Alpie Core over Christmas and the New Year.

Alpie Core is a 32B reasoning model trained and served at 4-bit precision, offering 65K context, OpenAI-compatible APIs, and high-throughput, low-latency inference.

If you were evaluating or using a model like this:
What would you benchmark first?
What workloads matter most to you?
What comparisons would you want to see?

I wrote a long essay following a talk I gave at AI DevCon in Brooklyn last month.

It starts out with an anecdote about hunting ChatGPT in December 2022 and goes on to explore what I think will be necessary to thrive as code becomes a commodity:

In December 2022, I hunted ChatGPT on Product Hunt.

It ranked #1 product of the day, then the week, and went on to be named Product of the Year.

Having co-founded a YC-backed conversational AI startup in 2018 (long before LLMs) I recognized in ChatGPT the missing ingredient that would have made that venture viable.

The future we d anticipated had arrived. I could revisit my old problem, or I could expand my area of potency by raising and deploying my own venture capital fund.

I chose the latter.

Three years later, on December 9th, I watched a 24-hour window on Product Hunt cross 500 launches roughly double what I observed throughout the preceding 825 days. Only 13 were featured; most were unremarkable.

The LLM has fundamentally shifted the economics of software development.

As someone with a dual vantage point being the #1 Product Hunter while investing in AI startups I watch the floodwaters rise in real-time.

What s become clear: SaaS is dying; VC is withering . Building software is not uniquely compelling. Code has become a commodity.

What most people miss about commoditization is that when a product or resource becomes abundant, it doesn t just get cheaper. It unlocks new and previously uneconomic uses.

We just wrapped the Orbit Awards for AI Dictation and now we re moving to the next category: AI Automation.

This one is for the tools that actually do work for you clearing chores, running workflows in the background, or quietly taking over a chunk of your week without turning into another dashboard you have to babysit.

With this whole AI trend, many tools are trying to be invisible: not apps you open, but helpers that quietly run in the background. They show up just enough interface: a chat box, a nudge, or an API call to deliver value, but otherwise stay out of sight.

With today s agent hype, this idea feels like it s accelerating. Agents promise to handle tasks across your apps without you lifting a finger.

We ve just opened up our public board so you can see what we re working on at Kanbanq!

Public boards are a feature we loved back in the Trello days, a simple way to share your team s current progress with the world. With Kanbanq you can also share your backlog, giving people a clear view of both what s happening now and what s coming next.

In the future, public boards will also include community features like voting, comments and suggestions. Perfect if you re a game dev studio wanting to track bugs and feature requests, or even if you re running a film server and want your members to suggest the next movie night.

Check it out here:

It s not even a week since I asked which European city could become a startup mecca.

As usual, my questions are answered retrospectively, and yesterday I came across an infographic that shows promising areas for startups.

I would like to follow up on the previous discussion on How far in advance do you prepare your launch on Product Hunt?

In this case, I would like to share with you, but also listen to you in a brainstorming session:

Possible platforms where you can launch have been discussed here several times.

Of course, it brings benefits for SEO (backlinks), visibility (more content, awareness),...

I read in TechCrunch today that Perplexity is trying to dominate the Indian market, which could potentially increase the number of users (and thus compete with OpenAI).

Perplexity is trying to attract more users by offering a free 12-month Perplexity Pro subscription normally worth $200 to all 360 million Airtel subscribers. (That is the cost for them.)

Before starting any discussion on Product Hunt, make sure you're not violating the PH community guidelines and the PH Forum Guidelines.

From my experience of actively contributing and spending time on this platform, I ve noticed a few things, and I d love to share them with you.

If you re reading this post, it s at least 2 weeks old. I m currently away, and in situations like this, it s better to be prepared.

Here s my process that helps me stay (somewhat) consistent even when I m short on time and not available in real time:

• Batch-create evergreen content that can be shared anytime, or content tied to a recurring season or trend. (If you find time while travelling, you can still jump on current topics, but be aware, it might distract you from the trip.)

• Prepare your content at least 2 weeks before your trip.

• Create at least 4 extra posts beyond what you need. For example, if I m travelling for 9 days, I ll prepare 13 posts, just in case something goes wrong or unexpected travel issues come up.

• Set a fixed time to respond to comments (e.g. 9 AM), or block out a time window for engagement, so you don t get sucked into it during the day.

• Keep a running file of content ideas throughout the year, including brainstorming sessions with ChatGPT. It ll make content selection much easier in the future.

Hey PH community!

We re preparing for our upcoming launch on Product Hunt and planning to include a short video introducing our product. We re debating between two approaches and would love your input:

Since seeing Den's #1-of-the-week launch, I've been playing around with it. I'm not quite at the conviction yet to rip out Slack and Notion. That would take a lot, especially given how much history and data we have, as well as workflow practices around it. But I'm finding it really intriguing so far. Here are my initial thoughts:

1) The merging of Slack channels and Notion spaces feels very natural.