Everyone is panicking about the March 2026 Core Update. It started rolling out on March 27 and will take up to two weeks to complete . The spam update hit just three days earlier and finished in 19.5 hours, the fastest spam update on record .
But here's what the data actually says.
JetDigitalPro analyzed 600,000 web pages across the update period. The correlation between AI usage and ranking penalties was 0.011, effectively zero . Google isn't penalizing AI content. It's penalizing low-value content that happens to be AI-generated.
Websites relying on mass-produced AI output without human oversight saw traffic drops of 60-80% . Affiliate sites were hit hardest 71% saw negative impacts .
I ve been testing this with an AI agent we use for outbound workflows.
The agent s job is simple: take a lead, generate a personalized outreach email, and send it.
Before: The agent only had access to the lead s basic details (name, company, role) and a prompt to write the email. Output was consistent, clean, and predictable(though the personalisation aspect was limited) .
I've spoken to several customers and BETA users trying to determine the correct pricing model for Hello Inbox.
Originally I thought a pay-as-you-go system was the right approach, but after speaking to a few BETA users and customers it turns out maybe that isn't the best approach because several of my features require recurring use.
I wrote something like this back in 2023. Life was slower then. Fewer people knew me, fewer people used what I built. Now, more people are coming, using my work, trusting it. And sometimes I think should I clean things up, remove old things that don t move anymore? But I don t. I just let them stay.
When I started building saas, I didn t know what would happen. I was just one person, sitting with a laptop, trying to build something simple. I had a job before. Life was okay. But inside, I felt something was missing. So I left that path and started this, not knowing where it would go.
The early days were quiet. I built, I changed things, I made mistakes. Many things didn t work. Many nights felt very long. Sometimes I forgot why I even started. But still, I kept going, slowly.
Then I launched Slashit App. I didn t expect much. Maybe a few people would try it, maybe no one would care.
Everyone tells you to ship fast. Move fast and break things. Get to market before someone else does.
I believed this for a long time. When we were building Murror, speed was everything. We pushed features weekly, sometimes daily. We celebrated every deploy like a small victory.
Control group: a two-hour roadmap review meeting. Six people in a room (virtual). We debated features. We argued about timelines. We discussed dependencies. We left feeling productive.
Test group: We fed the same roadmap into Claude. No slides. No politics. No one trying to protect their pet project. Just the raw plan. The prompt: "Analyze this roadmap. Identify the three most likely failure points. Use first principles reasoning. Assume we will follow your recommendations without ego. If you need more data, ask for it."
I keep hearing and reading about how programmers are at risk; basically, everything that can be replaced by AI is at risk.
Yesterday, Lenny Rachitsky shared a post that PM openings are at the highest levels since 2022.
At the same time, I read how big giants (Meta, Amazon, etc.) are laying off engineers because of AI, and then I read about how they had to hire back again because something managed by AI went wrong.
Hello everyone! Just joined Product Hunt and would love to connect with some like-minded people! My name is Cecilia and am currently working at Talentium - a Stockholm-based AI company. We're building a platform where recruiters can prompt for candidates that matches their requirements, regardless if the data is public or if it's coming from a CV or from their talent pools.
Aside from working in the start-up world for my whole career, I've started a restaurant together with my parents in my hometown which is now one of the best rated restaurants in that city! And now I'm currently working with my sister to launch a Vietnamese coffee brand in Sweden, finalizing the details. Been doing a bunch of random stuff throughout my life, like moving to Vietnam for a year, studying wine tasting at Stanford, and much more.
While building a product, I ve also been trying to run content on social media to bring in more traffic. I experimented with creating AI-generated characters and producing UGC-style videos around them.
During this process, I realized something interesting: there are hundreds of tools that can generate virtual characters and UGC-style videos. But what actually makes a video engaging isn t the tool - it s the authenticity of the person creating the content.
tldr: yes. Shoutouts are one of the simplest distribution levers on Product Hunt.
Shoutouts are meant to pay it forward and highlight the tools that helped you build. But beyond goodwill, they create durable distribution for your product on Product Hunt and across LLM driven discovery.
When you shout out a product during launch, it becomes a founder review on that product s page. Founder reviews sit above regular reviews and include a link to both your profile and your product. That means your product is now attached to every future visit to that product s review page, long after launch day. For example, check out @timliao s shoutout of @Framer or @guymanzur s shoutout of @Base44
