Arpan Garg

Arpan Garg

Commudle | πŸŽ“ Google for Startups

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Built a browser based Falling Sand game with weather effects

I used to love playing Falling Sand, so I built my own version you can play right in your browser.

I added weather effects, chain reactions, and synth style sound effects to make it feel a little fresh while keeping the same chaotic fun that made the original so addictive.

Would love any feedback on the gameplay, effects, and overall feel. What would you add next?

Martin Gebara El Maalouliβ€’

7d ago

Are we using AI to think better or to stop thinking at all?

I've been noticing something lately. We went from using AI as a tool to letting AI become the default for almost everything: writing, deciding, planning, even reflecting.

Need to write an email? AI. Need to make a decision? Ask AI. Need to understand how you feel about something? Believe it or not, AI.

The problem isn't the technology. The problem is that we're quietly outsourcing the one thing that makes us valuable: our ability to think for ourselves.

Nikaβ€’

9d ago

Would you lie about your company's performance just to get better opportunities?

I think we all lie every day (even when we say "Good night" to someone, and we don't even have to mean it sincerely).

We also lie on our resumes, we don't fully disclose everything on our tax returns, and we sometimes fake income.

Lu Karinaβ€’

9d ago

What auth provider are you using in your stack, and would you choose it again?

Curious what the community is running for authentication/authorization in their apps (e.g. Auth0, Supabase Auth, Clerk, Firebase Auth, Cognito, etc.)

A few things I'd love to hear your take on:

  • What provider are you using and what's your primary stack? (e.g. Next.js + Clerk, Go + Auth0, etc.)

  • What's the one thing that surprised you , good or bad ?

  • Would you make the same call today? Especially curious if you've hit scaling pain.

For context: I'm building a B2C application with my own database layer, and currently in the process of evaluating which authentication provider best fits the architecture. Trying to understand how others are handling the auth <> database relationship and what influenced your final decision.

Arpan Gargβ€’

9d ago

Helping DevTools build DevPrograms -> 260K+ users | πŸŽ“Google for startups | 🌟AWS Activate

Hello hello!

I am Arpan, a founder at Commudle. The journey started more than five years ago when I was solving for my own community, Google Developer Group New Delhi, and built this side project while switching 3 metro trains between home and office.

TestSpritep/testspriteYunhao Jiaoβ€’

7d ago

Your AI agent just wrote 5,000 lines of code. How do you know it actually works?

Genuinely curious what the community does here.

We've been talking to hundreds of teams building with Cursor, Claude Code, and other agentic tools and the honest answer from most of them is: "We just run it and hope."

Some do a quick manual click-through. Some write a few spot checks. Some just ship and wait for users to find the bugs.

We built TestSprite to solve exactly this autonomous testing that runs from your PRD and codebase but I'm curious what your actual workflow looks like before you merge.

SurfPalp/surfpalNikaβ€’

12d ago

How do you manage your time online and make sure you're spending it on something useful?

If I'm being honest, I'm online (and on PC in general) more than is healthy. Never less than 12 to 14 hours a day.

In practice, I use it most often for:

creating graphics

Ryan Hendricksonβ€’

19d ago

What are you building, and what does your stack look like?

I am a Computer Science student doing research into how solopreneurs and small startups create new apps and what their stack looks like. Particularly, I'm interested in how you handle things like authentication, billing, and permissions/authorization in your apps.

Let me know what you're working on below and how you're going about it -- I'd love to connect for some quick calls to learn about your product and talk about your process in building it!

Product Huntp/producthuntAndrew Stewartβ€’

25d ago

Case Study: how Product Hunt can improve AI visibility in 2026

Product Hunt is best known for its homepage, a daily leaderboard of the most creative and innovative products on the internet. Makers go all out to win launch day, because that visibility matters. Product Hunt also plays a significant role in how products appear in Google search results.

What surprised us was that AI assistants like ChatGPT were rarely citing Product Hunt in product recommendations.

Nikaβ€’

1mo ago

How much do you trust AI agents?

With the advent of clawdbots, it's as if we've all lost our inhibitions and "put our lives completely in their hands."

I'm all for delegating work, but not giving them too much personal/sensitive stuff to handle.

Product Huntp/producthuntNikaβ€’

2mo ago

How do you create discussion topics for Product Hunt forums? + (My approach)

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.

Product Huntp/producthuntfmerianβ€’

2mo ago

The Breakpoint [2026-01-07] - Happy 2026

Meow world, welcome back to The Breakpoint, a weekly thread on all things dev tools on Product Hunt.

The latest

Recent dev-first products launched on the site

Product Huntp/producthuntfmerianβ€’

2mo ago

Hiring? Looking for work? [Startup Roles January 2026]

Building a team or want to join a startup? Let's kick 2026 off to a great start.

Founders, teams, and startups drop a comment if you're hiring.

Product Huntp/producthuntAaron O'Learyβ€’

12mo ago

🚨 Community landing page roast: give a roast, get a roast 🚨

Let s bring back everyone s favorite kind of feedback: brutally honest and weirdly helpful.
Drop a link to your landing page in the comments. Then roast someone else s. Keep it real, keep it useful, keep it (mostly) kind

We re talking:

  • What s confusing?

  • What s missing?

  • What s great but buried?

  • Would you actually sign up or bounce?

The rules:

Rajiv Ayyangarβ€’

1yr ago

I'm the Product Hunt CEO - tell me your tagline and I'll fix it for you :)

I m the @Product Hunt CEO, I ve launched 7 times on PH, and helped countless friends prep their launches. The most common mistake I see is a confusing tagline. Launching on Product Hunt soon? Tell me your tagline and I ll fix it for you :)