Several of you launch your products on multiple platforms that are alternatives to Product Hunt.

• Do you proceed with preparation and promotion in the same way as when launching on PH, or do you have a slightly "chill" approach and take it less seriously?

• What is the gap between launching on PH and launching on an alternative platform (+ where do you launch earlier?)

I noticed that Product Hunt discontinued the teaser / coming soon section this week, and I m curious if it did help you build genuine traction? 

My take (from hunting PH launches):

I spend a lot more time on PH at the moment to see what indepedent makers are spending their time on. I've noticed some patterns and also want to share a little bit about my journey at South Park Commons. Most startup stories begin at zero when there s already a team, an idea, maybe even a prototype. But at South Park Commons (SPC), the philosophy is different: people gather in the -1 to 0 stage. That liminal space where you don t yet know what you re building or even if you should build at all. It s a place for exploration, experimentation, and being brutally honest about what s working and what s not.

A hallmark of SPC is how often industry leaders drop by to share what they ve learned in the wild. Recently, I was in a small chat with Tyler Payne former Google and LinkedIn AI lead, startup builder, who has spent the last decade helping teams actually ship real-world ML systems. We're always talking about what's being launched at SPC.

Last time we talked about Apple and its chances of gaining dominance in AI.

Many agreed that Apple:

excels in hardware,

Bluesky is implementing comprehensive updates to its policies and community guidelines, driven by global regulations and user feedback, with a focus on improving user safety, clarity, and community standards.

Key Takeaways

• New guidelines organized around four principles: Safety First, Respect Others, Be Authentic, and Follow the Rules

• Introduces an informal dispute resolution process, allowing direct phone conversations to resolve user conflicts

• Addresses previous moderation challenges by providing more detailed policies on content moderation, hate speech, and user conduct

Great news for @jakob_knutzen1 , @cheska_teresa , and the entire Butter crew!

The world is changing rapidly due to AI and technology.

New generations (and not only they) have to adapt to changes in the job market.

I know that many of us at PH have a founder mindset.

A few years ago, I got into a company that had been on the market around for 7 years and was a bit of a love brand among open source apps.

Then the company was bought by an Israeli company and I saw how the quality of the apps, the way they were managed and the monetization model went downhill.

If you're applying, reply below with what you're building so we can cheer you on!

If you're doing a startup and not applying, why aren't you applying?

If you're applying, reply below with what you're building so we can cheer you on!

If you're doing a startup and not applying, why aren't you applying?

As Cascade has gotten better, we noticed that the tasks users are giving it have gotten more complex. Instead of just asking Cascade to make simple edits, users are relying on Cascade to build out entire features, perform large refactors, and implement PRs end to end. More complex tasks mean longer prompts with more information which can often be laborious to type out. In this wave, we re bringing voice support to Cascade. This means that users can just speak to Cascade rather than having to type things out (though it doesn t talk back yet)

Read more about Wave 11.

I believe every project should have a website to showcase its offering, not to mention for SEO purposes. Whether SEO will still be relevant due to AI is another discussion.

Do you have any favourite websites that are both functional and beautifully designed?

When I first launched on Product Hunt, I had no idea what to expect. I wasn t sure anyone would notice our little startup, and honestly, I felt intimidated. Everyone seemed so established, and I didn t know where I fit in.

But then something incredible happened. A kind comment from @aaronoleary. Encouragement from the PH community. Support from the Product Hunt team when we ran into issues. A hunt from @benln. A thoughtful reply from @rajiv_ayyangar himself.

• That first launch became Product of the Day.

• We were later nominated for Product of the Year.

• In 2023, I was named Community Member of the Year.

• And now in 2025, I ve been invited to serve as a Product Hunt Ambassador!

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Hello everyone, Sumit here from the Himalayas. I hope everyone is having a relaxed weekend. My workflow with vibe coding has settled pretty well as I get more and more time out of desk while Claude Code builds the software.
I wanted to offer any assistance to fellow founders. I have been vibe coding full-time for a little over 4 weeks. Wrote about it here. Please share your tools, or workflow and in particular what is not working for you. What is frustrating you in building software with vibe coding?

Hey Product Hunt

I m a frontend developer who got tired of guessing why Google wasn't indexing the pages I carefully built.

As a founder building a hardware + app product (InvisOutlet Pro launching soon ), I ve found myself going way too deep on tiny details most people will never think about: icons used in our app, length of screws, even how the packaging folds.

Some of these details make a huge impact others? Maybe just to me