After our Product Hunt Launch, many people signed up but didn't test the platform because they need someone to do a call with, and if we lose that momentum, the user is lost.
Building in public is important today. It helps you build a community, get feedback, and create traction around your product. But creating content to share every day shorts, posts on X, LinkedIn, Instagram can quickly become boring and very time consuming. By recording your meetings with Prodshort, you get content ready to share: Shorts, X posts, LinkedIn posts... You keep things authentic, because the AI documents what you actually do and doesn t create fake content from scratch. Your real progress, your real discussions, your real decisions become things you can share.
It makes build in public much easier. You can share updates about your project directly from your calls: progress, ideas, feedback, small wins... Stay consistent with your build in public without adding extra work to your day !!
Video has always been one of our biggest customer acquisition channels at my company. But for 2 years, our video making process was a mess. Not the recording - the everything else. Finding editors who understood our specific AI context was hard, so we ended up doing it ourselves. It was draining. It was inconsistent. It was a bottleneck.
Over the last 10 days, I built an autonomous AI video agent (powered by Hermes - or OpenClaw - both work) to kill the drudgery for good.
Some of the most inspiring startup journeys of the last few years happened in plain sight.
@levelsio built Nomad List and Remote OK live on Twitter sharing revenue numbers, failures, and pivots in real time. @marclou does the same, shipping products publicly and turning his audience into his distribution. Both have built massive followings and real businesses partly because of how openly they build.
The more visible I become on platforms, the more opportunities I receive (not just sponsored ones).
Quite often, people reach out saying they re looking for a marketing co-founder.
And practically every month, there s someone with another revolutionary idea, the next big thing, a multimillion or multibillion-dollar business but then you never hear about them again.
I built Prodshort because I understood after my previous companies that the hard thing is not to Build but to Sell. But because I'm a builder, not a seller. I decided to build something that Sells for me. And Because the trend is Founder Led Marketing, I decided to build something that Create content on your behalf. But there was a lot of AI tools out there. So I decided to go the opposite way, make it the most authentic possible. I want you to create content when you are not even aware of it. And honestly it worked for me. Many people tell me it's amazing but to keep it honest, NO ONE PAYED, and that's the only KPI I'm looking at. For now, I have feedback about the landing page being too AI generated, and doesn't reflect the quality of our product. And Builder socially scared from sharing there first content. Let me know what you think https://www.producthunt.com/prod...
Two weeks ago, @byalexai discussed whether VCs are losing their appeal in the AI era. A few months ago, I personally noticed a lot of hate toward VCs and praise for bootstrapping on X.
It felt like VCs were being demonised: selective investors who take a big slice once a good opportunity appears, and then founders are expected to deliver top results while entrepreneurial freedom fades. That s how it was often framed.
We re trying something new on Thursday: Alpha Day.
The idea is simple. If this is the first time you re launching your product anywhere, you can tag it alpha and get a boost to your points (and land on a special leaderboard).
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?
1. No simple, affordable credit layer to bridge payment processors with user balances developers rebuild credit tracking, consumption logic, and refunds for every app.
2. For 5 years, goods have been stolen from the office. There is no available service that automatically analyzes camera footage and sends alerts about suspicious activity.
3. Risk of a LinkedIn ban due to false positive bot detection. Official support is unhelpful. Need a tool that warns about suspicious activity to avoid losing 11,500 followers. Boris, ProblemHunt
