Arphid

I'm Andrew, based in London, founder and CEO of Kineto, with over a decade in content platforms, music products, and voice assistants. Most recently, before Kineto, I created and led Junie, the JetBrains coding agent, got to scale it from zero, watch it actually start shaping how teams work, and learn what scaling an agent really takes.

Now I'm taking that experience into a different industry: the creator and influencer economy.

Two things I'd genuinely love to talk to people here about:

The creator economy itself. Tools, platforms, business models, all moving fast. I'm a fan of the take that we can't really automate creativity, but there are 20 things around it that agents can genuinely help with. Not using AI is not on the table, that ship sailed. The interesting question is how we build products that take the boring 20 and protect the part people actually got into this for. Always curious to meet others working in this space: image, video, audio, voice, anything adjacent.

Every day, after launching, makers are contacted on LinkedIn and X by people offering to sell votes. As the Product Hunt team, we are very much aware of this and really hate it. We have systems in place to neutralize this type of gaming. Every vote counts for a different number of points on Product Hunt. A couple examples:

• An account with a recently created gmail address and no history of quality contributions on Product Hunt: this vote will count for 0 points. Yes, this might be a well intentioned user, but we take a conservative approach to protect the community. If the account has a company email or applies for verification on Product Hunt, that's a different story.

• An account with a company email address linked to a legitimate LinkedIn account with a history of meaningful contributions on Product Hunt: this vote carries significant weight.

A couple questions for the community:

• Are there specific accounts on Product Hunt that you suspect participate in vote selling? You can reply here or email report@producthunt.co

• What would you want to see us do differently here?

Let me start from the creator s perspective:
I personally don t have a product (apart from hiring people for creative work or offering personal consultations).

But as a creator, I constantly share content, insights, and information, value that helps me build trust (for free). Based on that perceived expertise, people eventually decide to work with me (a paid service).