We've been analyzing demo funnels across B2B SaaS companies, and the pattern is consistent: the "Book a demo" button creates a 5 9 day gap between peak buyer intent and first product contact.

By the time the call happens, half the excitement is gone. No-show rates climb. Reps spend the first 15 minutes on basics the prospect would've preferred to explore alone.
The fix isn't a better calendar tool. It's removing the wait entirely.

We built Naoma to replace that gap with an instant AI demo live, conversational, running in the browser 24/7. The prospect gets a real product walkthrough the moment they click. We route qualified leads straight to sales.

In early pilots, we're seeing 6 20% visitor-to-demo conversion, which for most inbound funnels is a meaningful jump from the default.

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.

If I'm being honest, I'm online (and on PC in general) more than is healthy. Never less than 12 to 14 hours a day.

In practice, I use it most often for:

creating graphics

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

I'm Ion, turning 42 years old in just 5 days, and I've decided this is the year I stop just dreaming and start building. I'm a dad of two amazing kids, always full of ideas sometimes too many but I've finally learned that the real magic happens when you actually share them with the world!

So I'm launching on March 1, a fun browser game, perfect for competitive friends, family game nights, or anyone who loves head-to-head challenges.

A 2-player or 3-player game on the same device that brings people closer.

I m here to learn, support other makers, and meet good people.

TL;DR: Anthropic refused to sign a contract with the Pentagon that would have allowed the U.S. military to use all of its models without restrictions. Anthropic insisted on an exception, and brace yourself, that its models cannot be used: 1) for mass surveillance of citizens, 2) for autonomous killing. Now the administration is threatening that if the founder of Anthropic doesn't change his mind by a certain date, they will come after him.

Google, OpenAI, and Musk (Grok) have all signed the contract.

Following Sam Altman's announcement over the past few hours, people have been speaking out massively about cancelling their OpenAI subscriptions and subscribing to Claude.

I am a Computer Science student doing research into how solopreneurs and small startups create new apps and what their stack looks like. Particularly, I'm interested in how you handle things like authentication, billing, and permissions/authorization in your apps.

Let me know what you're working on below and how you're going about it -- I'd love to connect for some quick calls to learn about your product and talk about your process in building it!

Part of my job in growth at Clueso is talking to Marketers, PMs, customer success managers, solo founders building in public.

And over time, one pattern kept showing up that I genuinely didn't expect.

I recently saw a marketer with 10k+ followers launch and finish 6th with 348 upvotes. They followed a proper pre-launch and post-launch plan, did everything right, and still the outcome felt unpredictable.

Now I m launching @Curatora next week.

I m not a marketer. I have a little over 1k followers. Of course, asking for support helps. But I also keep hearing that a large part of the Product Hunt community shows up mainly for their own launch, then goes quiet until the next one.

That makes me wonder: how much of success here is strategy, and how much is timing and network effect?

This post is actually inspired by a tweet from @sandradjajic + an update here on PH from @chrismessina.

A few days ago I saw this:

With the advent of clawdbots, it's as if we've all lost our inhibitions and "put our lives completely in their hands."

I'm all for delegating work, but not giving them too much personal/sensitive stuff to handle.

As usual, Y Combinator came up with segments that are worth investing:

1. Cursor for Product Managers
2. AI-Native Hedge Funds
3. AI-Native Agencies
4. Stablecoin Financial Services
5. AI for Government
6. Modern Metal Mills
7. AI Guidance for Physical Work 8. Large Spatial Models 9. Infra for Government Fraud Hunters 10. Make LLMs Easy to Train

We re usually very good at creating to-do lists for work.
But what about everything outside of work?

I ve started turning my personal habits into a checklist to build discipline and make these habits non-negotiable over time.

Here s mine:

New AI models pop up every week. Some developer tools like @Cursor, @Zed, and @Kilo Code let you choose between different models, while more opinionated products like @Amp and @Tonkotsu default to 1 model.

Curious what the community recommends for coding tasks? Any preferences?