I ve been building music apps for iOS for over a decade, but Guitar Wiz is by far the most ambitious project I ve worked on. It started life years ago as a simple chord library (GtrLib Chords), and has now grown into a complete all-in-one companion for guitarists of all levels.

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.

I love reading new books and got into the habit of reading winners/nominees from a few different awards that I followed, mostly through lists on Goodreads or blogs.

Got tired of incomplete lists so I built AwardShelf!

After my AI startup (trieve) got acquired, I returned to an old idea: building a better Patreon for content creators making serial content like long running comics, shows, or books. The domain patron.com was perfect, but it was owned by World Media as an investment. Instead of assuming it was impossible, I cold emailed the owner Gary Millin through LinkedIn and regular outreach.

I don't know what it is, but I feel like everyone was fed up with these courses a year ago (I have to admit that I was also thinking about creating one, but at this time, everyone was profiled as a "marketing guru").

When I thought it was over... ONE BIG SURPRISE... it is not, and some guys on X (called App Mafia) dropped one worth $997.

I wrote last week about how we re building Ting on two axes: one to get attention, the other to build the product.

On attention, we re doing pretty well in 3-weeks:

• 1k on the waitlist.

• 200 people have joined meetings booked by Ting already.

• 375 invites sent out so far...

Zed raised $32M Series B led by Sequoia!

The team just posted a preview on X.

As a member of the @v0 by Vercel Ambassador Program, I just had early access and there's no difference with the desktop app. This. is. freakin. mind-blowing.

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We ve just rolled out some major updates to make building automations smoother, more flexible, and more secure.

1. Canvas Mode + Branching

We ve launched Canvas mode a brand-new, flowchart-style editor that lets you design automations visually, beyond the traditional vertical layout.

Over the past few months, we kept hearing the same thing from teams using Wispr Flow:

• We need zero data retention enabled across our company

• Can I share my dictionary with others on my team?

• How do I get Flow to understand our company jargon?

• How do I make sure everyone in my team maintains our brand voice?

• We spend a lot of time saying the same thing. Can we save predefined snippets?

You asked and we answered.

UTCP is a plug-in protocol that lets apps call tools the same way, whether they re HTTP APIs, CLIs, or other transports. Version 1.0.0 brings a lean core, protocol plugins, and a cleaner config so teams can scale tool usage without wrestling with glue code.

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To celebrate the launch of v0.app on Product Hunt, @v0 is launching "Free0."

v0 is FREE this week for the first 100K users per day. No throttling. The best model by default.

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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?

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.

So the real question is:

ICYMI: OpenAI posted a cryptic tweet yesterday, announcing a livestream for today at 10am PT. The cryptic part? They swapped the S for a 5 , which, of course, set off a wave of GPT-5 speculation. But this is OpenAI, and at this point, GPT-5 rumors feel like a monthly tradition.

What do you think it is?

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.