I keep watching indie game devs burn time and money on voice acting way too early in development. Here's what actually works when you're prototyping on a budget of zero.
Phase 1: Text-only playtesting
Start here. Seriously. Put your dialogue in text boxes and watch playtesters read it. You'll cut 30% of your lines before anyone speaks a word. Written dialogue that reads well often sounds terrible spoken aloud, and vice versa. Test the script before you voice it.
If you re still sitting on your launch, this is the push.
YC made a special exception for this community: one or more companies that launch tomorrow will get a YC interview and potentially funding. A YC partner will review every eligible launch.
Hi everyone, we just released: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@c... a simple SDK where you can spawn AI agents programatically. It works with any Agent Tool like: v0, lovable, replit, cursor etc.
The MIT License repo is here: https://github.com/creativetimof...
We've been building Naoma for over a year. Pivoted from a sales analytics platform, rewrote the product from scratch, ran pilots, iterated, broke things, fixed them.
Tomorrow we launch on Product Hunt.
The idea is simple: B2B buyers shouldn't have to wait 5 days to see your product. Naoma runs a live AI demo the moment they click qualifies them, walks through the product, routes the right leads to sales or checkout. No scheduling. No waiting.
Not the top 3 I quietly hoped for. But I want to be honest about what the day actually gave me, because it wasn't what I expected.
I built BrandingStudio.ai mostly alone, from Porto/Portugal, over the past year. No PH network. No launch team. No one ready to vote when it went live (except my wife - thank you!). Just a product I believed in after over 20 years in branding around the world, and a lot of uncertainty about whether anyone else would see what I saw - that we need to democratize access to how a brand should actually be created, as we do inside the agencies for Fortune 500 companies, as that is where a brand becomes the biggest comodity for a company or product.
What I didn't expect: 500+ engaged visitors so far who actually read the product. Real questions about methodology. Pushback that made me think. Someone quoted a Paul Graham essay, "The Brand Age," that dropped the same week, arguing that as AI commoditizes execution, brand becomes the only battleground left. That one comment alone was worth the whole launch.
According to @RevenueCat 's State of Subscription Apps 2026 report, "hard paywalls convert 5x better than freemium, but with significantly wider variance."
Day 35 download-to-paid, freemium vs. hard paywall
Does access method impact download-to-paid conversion within 35 days?
A story and an experiment have been spreading on X: Scientists uploaded the brain of a fruit fly into a computer, and now it lives freely in its own simulation.
We managed to clone the physical form of animals more than 30 years ago (for example, the cloning of a goat using SCNT in 1999). There was even a controversial case in China where a scientist was sued after attempting to create gene-edited babies in 2018.
Let me start from the creator s perspective: I personally don t have a product (apart from hiring people for creative work or offering personal consultations).
But as a creator, I constantly share content, insights, and information, value that helps me build trust (for free). Based on that perceived expertise, people eventually decide to work with me (a paid service).
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
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!
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?
Product Hunt is best known for its homepage, a daily leaderboard of the most creative and innovative products on the internet. Makers go all out to win launch day, because that visibility matters. Product Hunt also plays a significant role in how products appear in Google search results.
What surprised us was that AI assistants like ChatGPT were rarely citing Product Hunt in product recommendations.
