Let s be honest : everyone who launches on Product Hunt dreams (a little or a lot) of hitting the top of the daily leaderboard.

But let s put the trophy aside for a moment.

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.

I know people who never miss an email, even on a Saturday night.

And I know others who won t even open their inbox until Monday morning no matter what.

Every time I vibe code there is always this huge lift that I constantly have to go through. Authentication, billing, password resets, emails, signup, waitlist, landing page and when it s all said done and the app is ready then comes the marketing, the blogging, the social media automation, the product hunt launch etc etc etc . So much repetitive crap that I have to do just to get a simple app up and running. How do you guys handle all this?

Since I am a coder and a hammer sees everything as a nail, I decided to create all this code as a template so I can jump into building an app right away. There is actually a lot more than what I mentioned above e.g customer support, chat, roadmap for building in public, email flows and more coming.

So here s something I ve been thinking about lately: with the rise of AI coding assistants, boilerplate generation, and one-click scaffolding tools are we heading toward a future where fewer developers are actually needed to build great products?

I don t mean tomorrow but maybe 5, 10, 15 years out. If AI keeps improving (and honestly, it s already kind of insane), will we still need large engineering teams? Or will smaller teams even solo devs be able to ship like never before?

I m not saying devs are going extinct (I m a dev myself ), but I do wonder:

• Will early-stage startups hire fewer engineers?

• Will AI handle more of the grunt work while we focus on product logic and creative direction?

• Could this shift what it even means to be a developer?

I can safely say that the video is one of the most important things on launch day.

Sometimes even more important than your images.

There is something interesting I tried yesterday. I restarted my software project - I am building a smart web crawler. In software projects, a full restart is not an easy option even when we know we have learned from our current project and the project now has many layers of code that make it hard to sometimes navigate it. The crawler project was not quite so hard but I kept think the cost to restart maybe zero and I may get to focus on my successful experiments a lot better .
A leaner project helps sometimes but when software development costs human $/hour, we hesitate to restart. With vibe coding, I felt I should restart to see if I get a cleaner project. And it worked! In one day, I was able to restart with fresh GitHub issues, and then passing them on to Claude Code. I could get back to a working state, with tests and (in my opinion) better state of software flow than what I had built over the last 3-4 weeks.
Here are some takeaways I have till now (Claude Code based):

• A project management workflow with tickets/issues works really well, just like usual software development process

• Use Git branching to experiment on ideas and merge or not (if you want to throw an experiment)

• Use git worktrees if you want to work on multiple tasks in parallel - more advanced, I do not use this

• Use Claude.me to document your software workflow, code formatting, linting standards, etc.

• Ask Claude to follow Claude.md when tackling tasks - Claude Code can access GitHub issues, manage branches, etc.

• With enough clarity, if you feel the project has many remnants of experiments, do no hesitate to restart parts or all of it

Happy building!

We all have that one tool - the unsung hero quietly doing its job and saving you hours every single week.

For me (no surprise ), it s @Clueso

On Product Hunt, I can see many people launching their products using "vibe-coding tools" like @Lovable , @bolt.new , or@Replit

I reckon many people who created something with them are usually developers who didn't have enough time for building a side idea before, but with AI, they could make it happen.