Product Hunt just added a new leaderboard and it finally answers a big question: who s actually contributing to the platform?

For a long time, Streaks were the main signal of activity on Product Hunt. But streaks only showed who visited every day. Opening the site or app daily doesn t necessarily mean someone is adding enough value.

We re launching Glam AI today: an AI platform for creating trendy image and video content.

To celebrate the launch, our team created a fun video with the Product Hunt team (@rajiv_ayyangar and @rrhoover). You can see it on X.

Hey Product Hunt community

I m Paul, founder and CEO of Glam AI. Together with our team, we just launched today.

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By the time most of us see a trend on our feed, it s already "dead." Using it makes you look out of touch. But as a founder/small team, you don't have 8 hours a day to rot on TikTok or $10k for a trend consultant

How I try to stay ahead (the manual way):

• Ignore brands, follow creators: I track specific photographers/creative directors. They are the ones actually creating the aesthetic everyone else will copy in 6 months.

• Deep-dive guides & niche resources: Using things like the Reddit 2026 Seasonal Moments map to prep months in advance.

Here s what I think actually matters:

1. Being featured

2. Getting into the top 10 within the first 4 hours

3. Scaling into the top 5

4. Securing a badge (1st 3rd place)

Why?

A few days ago, Bytedance (which is also responsible for TikTok) announced a new model for generating videos. According to an article on Techcrunch, Hollywood isn t happy.

Because, apparently, it s competition.

Hi Product Hunt community

I m Paul, building Glam AI, an AI platform for creating viral-ready visuals.

For the last 2+ years we ve been focused on our mobile app, and the growth has been quite impressive.

AI visuals are suddenly everywhere and much easier to make. I m curious what s been the real impact for makers .

Has it actually affected your team and budget? Did you hire fewer designers, work with freelancers less, or did it mostly just speed up and improve the same process?

First of all, I want to thank you for voting for us in yesterday's launch - you still can, the week is not over. HERE

Second thing, I summarised some things that I realised, reflected on, and maybe should have known sooner:

This is something I ll find out in just a short while, one week from now (Jan 28), as I m about to re-launch a digital detox app. If you want, follow, maybe you will be on watch of my steps and activities

However, that s not the main point of this post.