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).

Hey PH community,
I m gearing up to launch ContentBlocks soon! We've had unpaid beta - now paid beta - and will soon be a traditional SaaS company trying to really hit scale (exciting and terrifying)!
ContentBlocks is a platform that helps creators turn content that has been historically static (PDFs / Courses / Worksheets / Lessons / Frameworks) into dynamic, personalized learning experiences, keeping the student experience top of mind (where it should be).
There are three main components of the App. 1. Canvas 2. The Agent & Knowledge ecosystem 3. Builder

1. You can research and ideate in Canvas, a drag-and-drop workspace similar to Miro or Figma. It s where you explore ideas, test concepts, and refine content before sending it to your knowledge base or sharing it with learners. Research a topic, run AI prompt pipelines, chat with copywriting agents, and create documents all in one place.

2. You can train AI agents on your expertise using a closed-loop knowledge base (We found that this "closed loop environment" gave us better - more curated outputs for learners). The agents learn from your content and instructions which in turn helps in creating workbooks, courses, and interactive experiences that feel like you.

3. Lastly - the builder lets you create courses, landing pages, chat pages and other customizable experiences. The goal is simple: combine AI with your internal IP to create a user experience that s easy for you to manage and ACTUALLY valuable for your students / members / community.

I spend a lot of time in this community and love seeing how others have stood out with launches, especially in a sea of AI tools (I promise this also works well without the AI elevator pitch). I d love to hear from anyone who s had success (or wish they had more) recently:

• How did you generate momentum before launch day?

• Did your launch convert to sales, and any tips on really differentiating leads?

• Did you pair this with a LinkedIn post strategy / Email list push

• Did the PH embed banner help drive traffic to the launch?

• Overall - I m curious about what s worked for other makers and would love to start a conversation here.
  Happy to share more about my approach / journey / our launch in here too!