Mason Elliott's profile on Product Hunt

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"Mason brings unparalleled amount of passion as well as a unique background in engineering, project management, business development, events and marketing, and entrepreneurship that makes him an incredibly valuable asset to any team, business, or project."

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3d ago

I spent a whole Sunday trying to replace my paid subscriptions with free alternatives

I decided to spend an entire Sunday finding free or cheaper alternatives to my current app subscriptions, mostly by digging through Product Hunt and old bookmarks. I made a list, set aside the day, and went through my tools one by one.
The task manager was the easiest swap. I found a free one in about ten minutes that does everything I need, plus a few extra features I did not expect. The password manager was much harder. I tried two free options, but both felt too clunky to stick with, so I kept my paid plan. The cloud storage swap was an absolute disaster. I spent two hours migrating files before realizing the free tier had a file size limit that made it useless for my work.
By the end of the day, I had only canceled two out of seven subscriptions, and I was completely exhausted. The main takeaway was learning which tools are actually worth paying for versus which ones I kept simply out of laziness.
Hunting for free alternatives often ends up trading time and frustration just to save a few bucks. Have you ever tried a subscription purge like this? Did you stick with the free tools, or did you end up going right back to what you were paying for?

p/parasocial

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11d ago

Podcast playlists you can share with strangers. What would you curate?

Parasocial launched here yesterday as a podcast player. Thank you for the comments and the upvotes. The next major release adds the second social layer, and I would rather shape it with you than announce it as finished.

What is coming:

Public playlists. Any playlist you build in the app can be published as a page anyone can open, follow, and play from, with or without the app.
Curator profiles. A handle, a display name, a short bio, and the playlists you have specifically published as "public". Follow a curator and their new playlists show up in a Curate tab: Following, Curated by You, Discover.
No likes, no comments, no algorithmic feed. Curation is the whole feature: a person with taste pointing at episodes.

Two things I want to hear from you:

p/helloinbox

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14d ago

Which AI models are you using? And why?

The large AI labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Grok, Gemini, etc) are constantly releasing new versions and improvements.

People on social media often advocate for one specific model claiming that it performs tasks better than others.