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 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 posted a random thread on X about the cost of living in the Netherlands. Nothing about what we're building. Just genuine thoughts about life in the Netherlands.
It hit 1M+ impressions. And here's the weird part we got a ton of signups and paid users for Starnus from it. Without ever mentioning the product.
Meanwhile, my "here's what Starnus does" posts? Way less engagement.
This genuinely messed with my head. I'm sharing the actual X post below
We re making three frontier open-source models free* on Zo until the end of February. GLM-5, Kimi K2.5, and MiniMax M2.5 are now free to use on Zo. And we ve increased the AI usage limits on our free plan significantly.
We re incredibly excited about recent progress in open-source models. Three labs dropped big releases just weeks apart, ahead of the highly anticipated DeepSeek R2. These open models are quickly catching up to closed models like ChatGPT and Claude, which are much more expensive.
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 shipped it. Halo is your AI assistant, embedded directly on your website. Customers ask questions. Halo answers. They book appointments. Halo handles it. One script tag, 5 minutes, done.
I've built my product around traditional SaaS pricing (monthly tiers), but I m starting to wonder if that model is getting outdated, especially with more AI-powered and compute-heavy tools entering the market. That shift requires real architectural changes, instrumentation, metering, billing logic, and UI changes, not just pricing tweaks. It s something I m starting to seriously think about for my own product.
In particular, AI usage has real COGs (every prompt costs money), and I m seeing more platforms experimenting with usage-based models, or hybrids like SaaS base + usage + overage.
For those of you building AI or compute-intensive tools:
This is something I ll find out in just a short while, one week from now (Jan 28), as I m about to re-launch a digital detox app. If you want, follow, maybe you will be on watch of my steps and activities
Since I haven't been able to meet my work goals very well in the last few quarters, I now plan to approach them more systematically and not push myself too hard on work goals, as that ultimately led to problems that made my plan less sustainable.
Ever noticed how AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini default to copying text in Markdown format? It's not a bug, it's a feature! And it's because Markdown is essentially the native language of Large Language Models (LLMs).
Why Markdown?
Markdown is a lightweight markup language that's super easy to read and write. It makes formatting text simple, whether you're making headings, bolding text, or creating lists, all without complex HTML.
@cerwindcharlie and I recently did an interview for the Stripe Developers channel (500k+ subs!) and shared stories we ve never talked about before on Pretty Prompt:
Behind the scenes on the Techstack of Pretty Prompt
Sometimes the aha moment isn t a dashboard it s TikTok videos
Growth can literally get you kicked out of Slack
I didn't know you can get locked out of your Slack workspace if you hit a rate limit on the amount of notifications... (We hit the limit because too many users were signing up!)
I'm Erez, and I'm ridiculously excited to finally share RevOps Pulse with you all!
The Problem I Was Sick Of:
As a SaaS founder, I was drowning in spreadsheets. Every month, I'd spend hours exporting CSVs from Stripe, building pivot tables, and trying to figure out basic questions like "What's my REAL MRR?" or "Which customers are at risk of churning?"
