Chris Messina

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Granola releases new brand

The team has a deep dive over here but here's how it looks:

Chris Messina

7h ago

Codex by OpenAI - A command center for working with agents

Introducing the Codex app for macOS—a command center for AI coding and software development with multiple agents, parallel workflows, and long-running tasks. The Codex app changes how software gets built and who can build it—from pairing with a single coding agent on targeted edits to supervising coordinated teams of agents across the full lifecycle of designing, building, shipping, and maintaining software.
Chris Messina

4d ago

Superagent from Airtable - The multi-agent system that delivers finished work

Superagent is a new AI research assistant that works like a coordinated team, not a single bot. Ask a complex question—like a market, competitor, or investment analysis—and it plans the work, pulls from trusted data sources, and delivers a polished, interactive report you can use immediately.

What I Learned Relaunching My App on Product Hunt After 3 Years

First of all, I want to thank you for voting for us in yesterday's launch - you still can, the week is not over. HERE

Second thing, I summarised some things that I realised, reflected on, and maybe should have known sooner:

Chris Messina

6d ago

NetNewsWire 7 - Free and open source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad

NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader. It's fast, stable, and accessible. NetNewsWire shows you articles from your favorite blogs and news sites - and keeps track of what you've read. If you've been going from page to page in your browser looking for new articles to read, let NetNewsWire bring them to you instead. It's easy and fun - and it puts you in control of your news.
Chris Messina

7h ago

Lightfern for Email - The telepathic AI writing tool

Finish thoughts before fingers hit keys. Working directly in your inbox as a browser extension, Lightfern nails the details that make emails feel like you - nicknames, sign-offs, your tone of voice - and pulls context from past threads to finish sentences the way you would. All with zero data retention by default.
Chris Messina

1d ago

Amara - Imagine, create and iterate 3D environments instantly

Build your 3D environment through exploration and iteration. Amara brings AI to help you create each of your 3D models and then help you create your environment inside Unreal Engine so creators can create multiple scenes and refine them in seconds until a favourite emerges. Creative exploration becomes part of your workflow.
Chris Messina

4d ago

Leapility - Turn your repetitive workflows into AI-powered playbooks

For professionals who want more output with less effort. You've done the same work dozens of times. Yet you're still juggling AI tools and losing focus halfway through. 💻 Leapility lets you describe your expertise as a playbook in plain language. Add your sources, steps, tools, and rules. Then hit run and let AI do the rest. ✌️Build once, reuse every time. Scale your output, not your hours.

Capital One acquires Brex for $5.15B

From the announcement:

Today, Brex and Capital One are announcing the largest bank-fintech deal in history for $5.15B, joining forces to build the most important financial platform for businesses in the US.

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To give you a sense of the scale of what we ll build together, Capital One today operates orders of magnitude ahead of Brex on almost any metric: $900B in annual card GMV, $700B in assets, $150B in market cap, a $6B marketing budget, and a $6B R&D budget. By combining Brex s technology, product, and go-to-market success with Capital One s unprecedented scale, brand, distribution, and balance sheet, we will supercharge our go-to-market and product development with levels of investment that will accelerate our mission by over a decade.

Chris Messina

10mo ago

Video Ocean v2.0 - Turn your ideas and images into captivating videos instantly

Video Ocean transforms your text and images into stunning videos with lifelike characters—perfect for ads, creative storytelling, and media production. Boost your video creation workflow effortlessly.
Chris Messina

13d ago

FastMCP 3.0 - The fast, Pythonic way to build MCP servers and clients

FastMCP 3.0 is a framework for building smarter AI context apps, not just tool servers. Pull tools and data from anywhere, reshape them, control access, track state, and run long tasks — with hot reload, versioning, and observability built in for production use.
Chris Messina

5d ago

Fluent - Agentic AI in Any Mac App. Now with Native RAG

This time, Fluent is supercharged by MCP and a native RAG engine, and it's a real game-changer. Beyond its general purpose, RAG lets you replicate your writing style almost 100%. This launch is mostly about that: write like yourself, write like Jack London, write like the world's top marketers. And never be accused of AI slop. To put it simple – Fluent RAG is the cornerstone of generating instead of writing.
Chris Messina

14d ago

Evernote v11 - Your second brain, leveled up.

Evernote v11 is here! The Evernote you love, evolved. Use AI Assistant for smarter interactions with your notes, AI Meeting Notes for recordings with multi-speaker transcription, and a more powerful search that understands the meaning behind your words.
Chris Messina

8d ago

Minara - Research, plan, and invest in one chat

Minara helps you move from market insight to investment action with confidence, in one chat. Start with a question or a hunch. Minara gathers real-time context and does the heavy lifting to separate the wheat from the chaff, so you can decide your next play. When you’re ready, invest directly by executing on-chain trades in chat. As you develop your investment chops, build powerful workflows to automate monitoring, reports, and rule-based strategies, so you can act quickly and decisively.
Nika

13d ago

Losing a social account and a community built over years – how do you protect your account?

Yesterday, I had an unpleasant experience. For a few minutes, I lost my LinkedIn community of several thousand people (TL;DR: I was falsely accused of using suspicious software).

Fortunately, I got my account back but it was a strong reminder that we don t own platforms, nor our profiles on them.

Chris Messina

15d ago

Updatest - Your new home for Mac updates.

Updatest is a Mac app that unifies updates from Homebrew, Mac App Store, Sparkle, Electron, and GitHub Releases into one clean dashboard. Discover outdated apps, adopt manual installs into Homebrew, get security details, and bulk‑update with confidence—no sketchy update databases, your data stays local.
Rohan Chaubey

18d ago

Curious Kitty on Product Hunt: a quiet AI experiment? 🐱

Over the past few days, you may have noticed a new account on Product Hunt called "Curious Kitty" commenting on some launch posts. It was created on 20th December 2025.

First observation: it behaves like a bot. It only asks questions (no opinions, no praise, no criticism) and those comments get visually highlighted, similar to how awarded comments stand out on Reddit. (screenshot attached)

Chris Messina

5d ago

Pandada AI - Build data wealth: Turns files into McKinsey-level insights

Pandada empowers both non-technical operators and data scientists to achieve data wealth. Move beyond "chatting" with data—Pandada turn messy csvs, pdfs, excels files, and even photos into downloadable and shareable McKinsey-level reports and presentations — so you can make better decisions grounded in data.

Repo Prompt in 2026: Claude Code and Codex get a huge power up

In case you were looking for more insights on using Repo Prompt effectively, @masonjames (who previously reviewed the product) has a new video out that might help!