Exactly one week from now, I ll be co-organising a tech event (a hackathon), and I m realising how much work it actually takes. I ve been to many conferences myself to gather inspiration, but I still can t come close to what I ve experienced as an attendee. Maybe that s also because we re organising it as just a 3-person team.

If you ve been to hackathons or other tech events before, what made a positive impression on you?

Lessons from Athena s surprising coverage and what founders can learn about finding the right reporter, framing stories, and pitching press

The Wall Street Journal rarely covers seed-stage startups let alone one raising just $2.2M. That s why I was surprised to see Athena, an early-stage company working on how large language models surface brand-related content, featured in Katherine Blunt s article about the demise of traditional Google search.

I should probably start Monday more optimistically, but let's take it as a little creative exercise.

I see people on Reddit complaining that jobs are really hard to get. With the use of AI technologies, the situation won't be any easier.

People love to obsess over age. Every time a teenager ships something, the headline is: Look, they re only 17! It s become a whole genre of founder story.

But honestly it s the least interesting part.

Hi Product Hunters!

I m Lisa, a designer and founder building Brushly, a tool for hand lettering and illustration. Right now, the best apps for typography art like Procreate are iPad-only, leaving millions of artists on Windows, Mac, Android, and Linux underserved.

My goal is to make Brushly cross-platform, giving creators everywhere access to professional, intuitive tools for lettering, illustration, and design. I d love to hear from artists and early adopters who feel the same frustration and want a better, universal solution.
I just made a rough website and app preview with gamma.app and devv.ai which would need refinement. Here is the link to see what it is like for now even though they need refinement:
https://brushly-nksuzs3.gamma.site/
Thank you and God bless you all!
Lisa

Hey everyone,

As a first-time founder gearing up for my first launch, I found myself getting overwhelmed by all the moving parts. To keep my sanity, I started building out a super-detailed checklist.

Hey, Product Hunt community!

I'm excited to be a part of this vibrant community! My name is Daniel, and I'm a hybrid data scientist + product designer + software developer.

At 15 I trained my first machine learning model and landed an internship at a U.S. company.
At 16 I launched my first startup and promptly ran it into the ground.
I learned more from that failure.

At 17 I launched Pleep, an AI sales rep that lets any business owner integrate AI into their sales workflow in under five minutes. Four months later I quit my job to work on it full time.

Why bother? I kept asking myself: Why isn t there an AI sales monopoly yet? My take: because most competitors deliver AI consultants that talk like robots and kill revenue.
We focused on building a real rep that:

• Doesn t ask you to prompt or pick an LLM you just tell us about your business and we do the rest.

• Talks like your top salesperson, not a bot.

• Books meetings and pushes data back into your CRM.

At 15 I trained my first machine learning model and landed an internship at a U.S. company.
At 16 I launched my first startup and promptly ran it into the ground.
I learned more from that failure.

At 17 I launched Pleep, an AI sales rep that lets any business owner integrate AI into their sales workflow in under five minutes. Four months later I quit my job to work on it full time.

Why bother? I kept asking myself: Why isn t there an AI sales monopoly yet? My take: because most competitors deliver AI consultants that talk like robots and kill revenue.
We focused on building a real rep that:

• Doesn t ask you to prompt or pick an LLM you just tell us about your business and we do the rest.

• Talks like your top salesperson, not a bot.

• Books meetings and pushes data back into your CRM.