Todd Merrill

Todd Merrill

Venture Studio Founder. SilverbackCTO
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I am a serial Founder who just got off a five-year stint as a Partner at a boutique Management Consulting company. As an Angel Investor and LP in active AI Funds it’s hard to ignore the market wave that LLMs have spawned. This year I recognize the power and impact that Agentic Engineering technology is going to have on the software engineering and overall business operations. So I started a Venture Studio to prove out what Agentic Engineering can do in the hands of an experienced operator and went a little nuts. To open up the new Venture Studio I launched one company a day in May and lived to tell the tale.

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Rankfenderp/rankfender•

15d ago

Just "AI" is no longer enough. Here is what Product Hunt is telling us.

I have been looking at what is actually getting traction on Product Hunt right now. The pattern is clear.

In March, OpenClaw products dominated the leaderboard. Anything with "Claw" in the name got votes. That was a land grab new space, everyone rushing in to claim a spot .

In April, that stopped. The "just build an agent" strategy stopped working. What replaced it? Products that do specific tasks inside workflows you already have .

Here is what the data shows.

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25d ago

What are the 5 tools you simply couldn't do your work without?

This could be related to your industry, or even a side project you're working on.

Here are my 5 (I couldn't function without them):

  1. Grammarly proofreading my texts, not just posts, but also client communication

  2. ChatGPT / Claude mostly brainstorming, help with copy, and summarising

  3. Figma I can put the basic graphics together quickly.

  4. Translator sounds incredibly old-school, but English is not my mother tongue

  5. Gmail and not only for communication, but also for storing ideas and sending myself email reminders for posts

Pusharyp/pushary•

1mo ago

How do you stay aware of what your AI coding agents are doing?

I've been running Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex pretty heavily for the last few months and I keep hitting the same loop:

1. Start a task in one agent

2. Switch to something else (Slack, Twitter, another terminal)

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