hey i built speakeasy, an ios app that converts any article url to audio. you paste a link (medium, substack, blogs, news, even twitter threads) and get natural ai audio in like 30 seconds.

built it bc i had 300+ articles saved in pocket that i never read. realised the problem wasnt time or discipline it was that reading requires ur eyes + hands which are always busy. ears tho? free like 90% of the time.

I am a Computer Science student doing research into how solopreneurs and small startups create new apps and what their stack looks like. Particularly, I'm interested in how you handle things like authentication, billing, and permissions/authorization in your apps.

Let me know what you're working on below and how you're going about it -- I'd love to connect for some quick calls to learn about your product and talk about your process in building it!

With the advent of clawdbots, it's as if we've all lost our inhibitions and "put our lives completely in their hands."

I'm all for delegating work, but not giving them too much personal/sensitive stuff to handle.

We re all builders here, which usually means at some point we looked at something clunky, slow, or frustrating and thought, there has to be a better way. Most products don t start with a grand vision; they start with irritation, curiosity, or firsthand pain.

I d love to learn more about how others here have navigated that journey:

How did you uncover the problem you decided to work on?
What signals told you this problem was worth solving?
How did you validate (if at all) whether people would actually pay for a solution?
Has your product stayed true to the original problem, or did it evolve into something different?
What surprised you the most along the way?

As usual, Y Combinator came up with segments that are worth investing:

1. Cursor for Product Managers
2. AI-Native Hedge Funds
3. AI-Native Agencies
4. Stablecoin Financial Services
5. AI for Government
6. Modern Metal Mills
7. AI Guidance for Physical Work 8. Large Spatial Models 9. Infra for Government Fraud Hunters 10. Make LLMs Easy to Train

We recently discussed the changes that took place on the platform in 2025, so it s clear that the approach to Product Hunt will need to evolve as well.

Some features were removed, others were added, but there are still opportunities to gain visibility.

Since I haven't been able to meet my work goals very well in the last few quarters, I now plan to approach them more systematically and not push myself too hard on work goals, as that ultimately led to problems that made my plan less sustainable.

So here is my structure and list:

This year brought an insane number of launches on Product Hunt. Honestly, I ve never seen this much activity in all my time here.

I m sure you ve also found something that caught your eye, actually helped you, or just made you smile while using it.

A tagline is the first piece of content a user will see about your product on the leaderboard. It's so important that you get it right. You should be able to get a really solid idea of what your product is just by reading a handful of words.

In the spirit of forever optimising our taglines, I wanted to do a little experiment:

A tagline is the first piece of content a user will see about your product on the leaderboard. It's so important that you get it right. You should be able to get a really solid idea of what your product is just by reading a handful of words.

In the spirit of forever optimising our taglines, I wanted to do a little experiment:

We're into the last week of November, which is a little nuts to me. It feels like last week we rang in the 2025 new year celebrations. There's been a ton of new products launch this year, unsurprisingly a lot of them with "AI" in their name. What product or products stood out to you the most?

For me it has to be @Wispr Flow, it's completely changed the game on how I interact with my devices, I rarely find myself typing anymore. Even this post was dictated through Wispr Flow.

We're into the last week of November, which is a little nuts to me. It feels like last week we rang in the 2025 new year celebrations. There's been a ton of new products launch this year, unsurprisingly a lot of them with "AI" in their name. What product or products stood out to you the most?

For me it has to be @Wispr Flow, it's completely changed the game on how I interact with my devices, I rarely find myself typing anymore. Even this post was dictated through Wispr Flow.

Every day, hundreds of products launch on Product Hunt.

And let s be honest most of the time we upvote without really trying them.

Sometimes, though, you actually do try one and it sticks.

Hey Product Hunt community!

I m working on a tool that lets you turn any article, document, or text into a natural-sounding AI podcast in 60 different languages.

Think of it as your personal read-it-later, but for your ears.

Why?

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.

Pocket is shutting down - by now, we all know that. I wasn t a regular user myself, but I did test the app about a year ago.

From what I m seeing in the comments, long-time users are understandably panicking. There are plenty of alternatives out there, but it seems like people are struggling to find something they can easily switch to.

So I m curious - how did you use Pocket?

And have you found a replacement that actually works for you?

Mozilla recently announced that they're shutting down Pocket. I used to use Pocket a lot back in the day, but I don't find myself regularly saving articles that much now.

For those that are still using Pocket, what are you planning to switch over to?