WhatsApp has launched "Writing Help," an AI feature that lets users rephrase, proofread, or adjust the tone of their messages (professional, funny, supportive, etc.).
Yes, it can be helpful to better express yourself, but it also has many critics that the authenticity of our "ordinary" daily communication is fading even in such a "RAW" channel as WhatsApp.
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.
A few weeks ago, our team went offsite to a beautiful Airbnb in Marin to do a last round of debugging before we launch Agents - probably our biggest feature launch to date, coming in early September.
Our time in Marin mostly consisted of 8.5 engineers staring at our computers for about 80 hours straight, but ultimately failing to get to all of the bugs we were hoping to squash.
Not long ago, books/video tapes were the only way to learn. Then video entered the picture: courses, tutorials, and lectures made knowledge more accessible than ever.
Now? The internet is overflowing with millions of courses, books, and resources on every imaginable topic.
This topic popped into my head because during holidays, vacations, and hot summer days, we re all a little less online, and it shows in the drop in upvotes and reach.
But that also got me thinking: maybe this is the perfect time to talk about your PH launch offline.
Everywhere I look, people say build in public to grow your product and audience. Sounds great except when you re starting from zero and literally nobody cares yet. From what I ve figured out, it s less about getting likes right now and more about leaving a trail, progress updates, decisions you ve made, even mistakes. Most of it will get ignored in the moment, but it builds a record that people can stumble on later. Also, public doesn t have to mean blasting it to Twitter. It could be small niche communities, Reddit threads like this, or a tiny newsletter. Basically, don t measure it by immediate engagement. Think of it as planting seeds for your future self. Anyone here actually started with no audience and made build in public work? What did you do?
Hey everyone! I'm C sar a software engineer, tech enthusiast, and huge believer in how AI can help us automate all those tedious daily tasks.
Like many of you, I ve got a personal vault of prompts I use for small jobs, cloud services, or automations built with n8n. But I ve always struggled to find the right balance between accessibility, control, and versioning of those prompts.
At first, I just kept them in a folder, with each file named after the task the prompt handled. But as I tweaked and refined them, keeping track of changes became a mess. I relied way too much on my old friend CTRL + Z.
Lately there s been a growing wave of skepticism around VCs, Y Combinator, and accelerators in general. And to be fair: I get it.
We now live in an age where almost everything you need to learn can be found online. The gatekeepers are fewer, the knowledge is everywhere, and solo builders have never been more empowered.
me and my co-founder are building an AI agent because at our last startup we just couldn t keep up with support.
we tried every chatbot out there. they all felt robotic. customers hated it.
hiring more people was too slow + too $$$
so we put together this ai chatbot (think intercom fin but deeper) that trains on your old tickets, learns your tone, doesn t hallucinate, and can actually answer stuff like a real support rep.
In a time when big corporations are overpaying for their job offers just to steal the best talent from another big company, and in an era where everyone can build their own startup, there will always be room for people who prefer to join a team and work on something (in the future) big.
Im going to be honest here - I had a little breakdown a while ago after I happily and very excitedly watched a friend explain his job to me. He is a AI only designer for a large agency. After the call I couldnt believe what I had seen... it was so far beyond my experiences with Midjourney and Chatgpt, then after about 24/48 hours my brain started going nuts and the reality set in with a basic message: your job has NO future. So the choices were (once my 48 hour freakout was done): 1. get with it (and learn and see where it takes you) 2. be the person that builds it 3. fall over and die (accepting my fate) 4. look for a job AI cant replace So I made my choice, I would do a combination of 1,2 and 4 and thus this morning at 6am, my alarm went off, made a coffee and started spending an hour learning Javascript and soon JSON to facilitate parts of 1 and 2. I self hosted N8N and Deepseek as well ready for learning and researched a few options for #4.
So wish me luck, ive tried coding before and never had any interest but hopefully this time it will be different as I have moved to a more process driven methodology in my life over the past decade. (bit of a plug, but follow me on twitter or bluesky for more titbits of useless information) #buildinginpublic
