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What I'm building after ClawOffice didn't take off

Hey everyone

ClawOffice was a bit of a gimmick - a 3D virtual office for AI agents. It was fun to build and got some attention on launch, but let's be real: it didn't take off. People thought it was cool for a minute, then moved on. No real retention, no real problem being solved.

Here's what I actually learned from it:

  • Novelty value. A cool concept gets you a launch day. It doesn't get you users who come back on day 30.

  • I was building for the demo, not the workflow. ClawOffice looked great in a screenshot. It didn't solve anything measurable for anyone.

  • "What gets tracked gets improved" is real. The founders I talked to afterward all had the same pain - they were shipping features and running experiments with no clue what was actually driving revenue.

Nika

2d ago

Build your brand before your product, or launch first and reveal yourself later?

  1. I've always been on the personal brand side. More and more founders are building it now (sometimes even before the product is ready while it's still in development, before seed fundraising). The CEO builds their position so the product sells more easily at the official launch.

  2. But I have experience with people who built the product, scaled it, and only then did we discover who was behind it.

Honestly, with the first approach, I'd be concerned that people invest more in me as a person than in the product. People would idealise the founder and overlook the product's flaws (which could hurt development and constructive feedback).

+ I noticed the most common mistake that many people who started building a personal brand first, connected their product to their personal accounts (emails, social media, etc.) and started having a problem selling these things, because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles.

SigmaMind MCP Server is LIVE on PH

Hey Product Hunt!

We just went live with the SigmaMind MCP Server, and we re on a mission to end "infrastructure hell" for voice developers.

For the last year at SigmaMind (YC S22), we ve watched builders struggle to stitch together telephony, low-latency models, and fragmented APIs.
Today, we re changing that. We ve built a way to configure and deploy production-grade voice agents directly from your IDE (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) using the Model Context Protocol. No more manual glue - just one prompt to connect your model, pick a voice, and get a live phone number.

We d love your feedback on the launch today:

Everything I'd tell a founder the night before their first VC call

Hey all,

One of the most important and challenging experiences you ll have as a founder is fundraising.

What do you do after AWS Lambda stops being the right fit?

I like Lambda for a lot of things, but there s a very specific point where it stops feeling elegant.

Usually it starts with something like:

  • a job that runs too long

  • a workflow that should keep going in the background

  • a task that needs better isolation or custom runtime behavior

  • a system that starts needing cron, retries, webhooks, logs, and routing in one place

And then the answer often becomes: move to Fargate, ECS, Step Functions, EC2, or stitch multiple services together.

Ana

8d ago

How are you dealing with vibe coding security risks in AI-generated code?

I ve been using a lot of AI-generated code lately, and while it definitely speeds things up, security feels like a weak spot.

I ve run into issues like missing auth, exposed endpoints, and weak configs stuff that AI doesn t really flag unless you explicitly ask.

Curious how others are handling this:

  • Do you rely more on manual reviews or tools?

  • Any workflows that consistently catch vulnerabilities?

  • Have you faced any real incidents because of AI-generated code?

Update: terminal, Slack, memory, and a smoother deploy flow

Hey everyone - quick update on DeployHermes (managed hosting for Hermes agents on Fly.io).

Since our last public release (right after we moved the stack to Vercel), we ve been heads-down on reliability and on features people actually asked for. Here s what s new:

Built this because long AI chats were getting too slow

Hey everyone,

I made this extension for myself because long chats in ChatGPT and Gemini kept getting slow and annoying to work with.

At first I just wanted to make long AI chats easier to handle, but then I added export too, because I often need to move information from one chat to another or save useful chats somewhere else.

Now it can:

Coddo 1.2.0 — All your projects, one window

The main update : single-window multi-project.

All your projects now live in the sidebar, switch in one click, no new windows. The sidebar has been fully reworked : project switcher, task threads by status (todo/in-progress/review), drag-and-drop reordering, pinned chats, collapse all.

Also in 1.2.0 :
Sequential execution for direct tasks (no more two tasks on the same branch)
Kanban bar chart showing task count per column
Task queue number visible in the sidebar
Documentation accessible directly from the sidebar
Pin chats, rename chats, reset button in task creation

Update via Settings Check for Updates or download at coddo.ai

Command Palette is now live in Room Service

I just shipped a new Command Palette in Room Service.