Over the past year, I ve noticed more founders stepping into the course creator role. Some are sharing genuine frameworks, while others lean heavily on personal branding and hype.

A recent example is App Mafia: a group of young founders (Zach Yadegari, Blake Anderson, Alex Slater, Connor McLaren) who claim to have built mobile apps valued at over $100M. They just launched a $997 marketing course, and the reaction online has been mixed.

Yesterday, @rohanrecommends noticed some changes on this Platform  the "Coming soon" page is gone.

There's no reason to panic because you have plenty of options to be visible, for example:

• You can place the PH badge (button for support) on your landing page.

• You can send a reminder email or push notification to your supporter.

• You can set up a LinkedIn/Facebook virtual event where you insert the link for your launch.

• You can use PH forums with relevant categories to make announcements if you have previously launched, for example, p/Google, allowing you to use the platform directly.

Last year @Clustr looked healthy with 10,000+ active users, 10-minute sessions and $20,000 in MRR. Yet users churned quickly traction didn t equal stickiness. After hundreds of growth experiments we finally pulled the plug, trimmed the team from 12 to 2, and plunged into pivot hell.

Dozens of dead ends later, I flew to San Francisco hunting for answers. On a quick walk in Dogpatch, Tom Blomfield (Monzo Bank/GoCardless) hit me with the line that finally cut through the fog:

Yes, we had this talk on Product Hunt countless times, about whether Apple is behind in AI.

Apple is in early talks with Google to potentially use Gemini AI to power a revamped version of Siri, as part of efforts to catch up in generative AI. They have been considering Anthropic s Claude and OpenAI s ChatGPT + testing their own models.

I renovated and launched DevDiary, a free VSCode Extension that tracks your dev routine locally and generates a complete Programmer Profile that judges your habits badly.

Two things are missing nowadays about VSCode time tracking: free and local. I don't want to be tracked by online services, so I developed DevDiary.

As someone who's worked for a long time in both the "content creation tools" and "educational content" industries, this is a question I get asked all the time.

The answer is both simple and complicated.

We launched Ting a few weeks ago and I ve had a lot of people ask how we got noticed + grew the waitlist.

I wanted to share some of that here, but also zoom out into how we re thinking about building and growing at the same time - so I wrote a longer piece about it.

We shipped a major update to ExplainGitHub and it s all about making repo exploration faster, smarter, and more useful for real work.

What s live now

• GitLab support (public & private): sign in with GitLab and chat with any repo just like GitHub.

• Saved chats & History view: your conversations persist jump back into repos and continue where you left off.

• Smarter context: ask in natural language the AI automatically finds the right files and uses them for more accurate answers (no manual file selection).

• GitDiagram visualizations: get an instant architecture map to understand structure and relationships at a glance.

• Browser extension: open chat directly from any repo page or swap github.com explaingithub.com.

Why this matters

Hey PH

I spent last month testing some assumptions like: founders want to meet others in-person. These assumptions failed as it's not as simple as that. There are some intricacies.

Well, I think will come back to the original asusmption that sort of worked. People liked being on the map, sharing their profile, and getting discovered.

I just read that Poland wants to launch a pilot project of a 4-day work week from January 2026 (although a 4-hour work week would sound better).

I want to ask if any of you in your company have tried this concept of a shorter work week, and how it has affected the results of your employees and the company?

On Twitter, I ve come across founders whose business was acquired at 18, which means they had to start even earlier. In some cases, it was at 16.

I ve also read about 14-year-olds building their first startup, and in some instances, even 10-year-olds. (At that point, I started to wonder whether it was truly the child s initiative or if the parent was creating the image of a successful founder at the child s expense.)

I've been pretty impressed at the amount of products people (including myself) have been able to create which got me curious... do vibe coders or AI-primary builders have a place in a company or team?
My thinking is the more technically adept would work on the core-focus while vibecoders can assist with other tasks that shouldn't be the main devs focus...like a potential feature add, minor changes, or even exploring different ways of modifying the existing product.
I'm curious what you all think, would you hire a vibe coder?

I've been pretty impressed at the amount of products people (including myself) have been able to create which got me curious... do vibe coders or AI-primary builders have a place in a company or team?
My thinking is the more technically adept would work on the core-focus while vibecoders can assist with other tasks that shouldn't be the main devs focus...like a potential feature add, minor changes, or even exploring different ways of modifying the existing product.
I'm curious what you all think, would you hire a vibe coder?

I often see the media sharing articles about layoffs due to AI, how junior programmer positions are less in demand, how there is also a decreased interest in copywriters and graphic designers, etc.

About 2 weeks ago, Teammates launched a tool (AI HR-ist), and right now I came across a post from a local marketer who shared interesting data about Ask AI (an internal AI/chatbot system), which today handles almost 94% of all routine HR requests, such as:

• vacation requests

• onboarding new employees

• payroll information and attendance records

• benefit selection and answers to basic employment questions

Results of AI implementation at IBM

• 94% of the HR agenda is automated

• Payroll, vacation, administration even terminations have been automated

• $3.5 billion saved

• 40% drop in HR costs

IBM also claims that employees are happier. The HR department s internal NPS score increased from -35 to +74 after the implementation of AskHR (source: HR Asia). 6% of questions are still directed at people AI has not yet completely replaced complex or emotionally sensitive situations.