There are products I keep using when launching on Product Hunt -- products that help me craft beautiful assets, plan content distribution, and analyze results.

Here's my personal collection. How about you? What's your stack?

Yesterday, I had a chat with a founder who s launching on Product Hunt next week.

He said: We ve got a community of 500+ people. Getting Product of the Day should be easy.

So I asked one question:

How many of them have an active Product Hunt accounts that are at least 4 6 weeks old?

According to the 2025 @Stack Overflow Developer Survey (49,000+ participants), @VS Code and @Visual Studio remain the most used dev environments, despite the rise of subscription-based, AI-enabled code editors @Cursor and @Windsurf among others. Both maintain their top spots relying on extensions as optional, paid AI services like @Github Copilot and @Kilo Code.

Curious which IDE the Product Hunt community uses the most?

Hey Product Hunt!

I'm Aloke, Engineer #1 at Warp and lead eng on Warp's new coding features.

We're all in on agentic coding at Warp, but we also recognize that even the best agents need some human guidance. We just launched a suite of new features to help you closely iterate with agents code review panel, file editor, file tree, slash commands, WARP.md (or use your existing agent.md file).

Adam Cohen is the cofounder of @Weave , an engineering analytics company that helps teams go AI-first. Before Weave, he was head of operations and sales at education software firm Top Hat and VP of operations and revenue at @Causal , which was acquired by Lucanet in 2024.

Adam Cohen is the cofounder of @Weave , an engineering analytics company that helps teams go AI-first. Before Weave, he was head of operations and sales at education software firm Top Hat and VP of operations and revenue at @Causal , which was acquired by Lucanet in 2024.

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):

Weekends are for side projects!

Share what you're going to be building or an idea you're kicking around.

I ve been building apps for 3 years little to no success. Recently, I launched my first successful startup Yadaphone. It lets people and teams make cheap international calls from the browser. In under 3 months, it reached 1500 users, 7 enterprise customers, and brought in $15,000 in revenue.

Before that, I thought I had a clear idea of how indie hacking works: you build something, launch it, get users, and continue doing the same stuff as at the start, but on a larger scale (and get $$$). That couldn t be further from the truth. Here are the top problems I wish someone had warned me about.

YC published a list of themes they want to invest in:

1. Full-stack AI Companies

2. More Design Founders

3. Voice AI

4. AI for Scientific Advancement

5. AI Personal Assistant

6. Healthcare AI

7. AI Personal Tutor for Everyone

8. Software Tools To Make Robots

9. The Future of Education

10. AI Residential Security

11. Internal Agent Builder

12. AI Research Labs

13. AI Voice Assistants for Email

14. AI for Personal Finance

Of course there are many projects and startups that launched on Product Hunt in each of these categories.

Sound off in the comments or let me yell into the void.

We re a Ukrainian team building an HCM platform and last week, we found ourselves at the top of HackerNoon s Startup of the Year 2024. Out of 150,000+ nominated startups worldwide, Sereda.ai placed:

• 1st in AI Wrappers

• 2nd in Business Development

• 3rd in Automation

We re based in Kyiv and proud to be the only Ukrainian project that made it to the top in a global AI category.

Hey everyone

I m Gabriel, the creator of AppHalt, the macOS app that helps you pause resource-hungry apps and speed up your Mac with one click.

Since our Product Hunt launch, I ve received incredibly helpful feedback (thank you again ), and I ve worked hard to make AppHalt even better especially for people with older Macs!

1. Effort results
I ve spent hours on posts that got 0 attention. I wrote my most viral post in 10 minutes while having morning coffee. You never know what will take off. Don't overthink it, just start writing and posting.
2. Don't be afraid to help competitors
Some people say building in public I only give my competitors an advantage. That's is partly true. At least 2 people reached out and said they built a similar product after my posts.
But first, this is great - the more the merrier, and the market is big enough for everybody.
Second, your real edge is not the tech you are using. It's the attention to the product you can generate. And social media is the only way to achieve it if you don't have millions for marketing.
3. Reddit hate is brutal
If your post has even a faint smell of promotion - people will hate you on Reddit. And when they do, they hate firecely. Expect a lot of angry DMs and downvotes.
4. Share your REAL struggles
The only way to avoid this and still get views, is being real. Share scary and cringy stuff. If you feel like you re gonna burn from shame after posting - it means you are posting the right thing.
5. Post on the right subs
Not all Reddit subs are equal. Most ban promotion posts. I always post on r/SideProject or r/SaaS. They are friendly to builders and your story will more likely resonate there.
6. Adjacent audiences rock
Some say builder subs are useless, because only your competitors hang out there. This is not true.
After my viral post on r/SaaS, I got a lot of leads for Yadaphone. Turned out many people on r/Saas and r/SideProject are freelancers, business owners and digital nomads. They all needed a cheap overseas call solution and I got a ton of new paying customers.
7. Not posting a link works
Avoid including a link to your product in Reddit posts. First, it s the quickest way to get banned for promotion. Second, if people like your product, they will google it, and it s a huge boost for SEO. Just share the name of the product in the post or wait until somebody asks for the link in the comments (somebody always does).
8. Non-native English is an advantage
This is a bonus for all non-native speakers out there. I used to push all my texts through ChatGPT to fix style and mistakes. And it only got me downvoted because people thought my texts were AI-generated.
Now I just write and post stuff as is. Making mistakes shows you are human, and Reddit values that over your perfect English
P.S. avoid the em dash at all costs, this is a clear sign you used AI (even if you didn t).
If your are curious about my viral post in r/SaaS, you can read it here. By the way, please upvote if you like it!
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/co...

For the past 3 years, I ve been building AI wrappers as an indie hacker tools designed to make AI more useful for everyday people. While none of them ever became profitable, each failed launch taught me how to code better, design with purpose, and market more strategically.

Eventually, all those skills aligned. And it happened not in AI, but in a domain I knew well enterprise software.

The Idea

A few months ago, I noticed a growing gap in emerging markets like Tanzania, Pakistan, and other parts of East Africa: many mid-sized companies were struggling with clunky Excel sheets and broken accounting systems. Large ERP systems like SAP or Oracle were too expensive and complex. What they needed was a simple, customized ERP solution just enough to automate their production, purchasing, and inventory workflows.

Dear @Windsurf, I appreciate the frequent updates. Love seeing a fast moving product. But, the restart-to-update is pretty brutal. There are like 3 updates per week.

I have long running processes in the editor terminal like my development server and rails console. When I restart the editor, I have to manually restart these processes. Some ideas:

1. Maybe it's possible to have some updates without restarts?

2. Can you indicate when my local major or minor version is behind the latest? I am no longer willing to restart the editor for most patch updates.

While on a walk yesterday, I wanted to learn about the Spain/Portugal blackout. Hacker News had a great thread on the blackout. I used ElevenReader (amazing product by @ElevenLabs) to listen to the thread. Overall, it worked great, but:

• The reader treated new comments as just new paragraphs. So I had no idea when the reader transitioned between comments/responses. Usernames of commenters were not mentioned.

• Urls were read out fully. This is brutal.

• It would be awesome to skip to next comment with a voice command.

Any product recommendations for this? Or maybe @ElevenLabs is already thinking about this?

@mikekerzhner just told me about the trick where you put Document.designMode = 'on' in console, then you can edit text on a page like a doc. It would be cool to do more types of edits for design feedback, like actually moving elements around. Does anyone know of a Chrome extension that lets you do this with websites?