Hi everyone, CEO of Bolt here! Super excited to open up about our journey and offer any learnings and stories I can to help other makers on their journey. Within a span of 2 months we've grown to $20M in revenue and were recently featured in NYT as paving the way for vibe coding.
Hi everyone! We're hosting the AMA LIVE on X (Twitter) and will be answering questions posted on the Forum during the Live. Join the Live X session here: https://x.com/producthunt/status... A while back we launched @Wordware and broke Product Hunt during our launch.
We're here to share bits of wisdom from our launch strategy, answer launch questions you may have, and even help point you in the right direction for the launch day!
Hi everyone, CEO of Bolt here! Super excited to open up about our journey and offer any learnings and stories I can to help other makers on their journey. Within a span of 2 months we've grown to $20M in revenue and were recently featured in NYT as paving the way for vibe coding.
Just a thought on Cursor and the fact that Anthropic rate limiting basically doesn't let me do anything right now. I've been developing with Cursor and Claude-3.5-Sonnet (recently 3.7-thinking) for last few months now. I've gotten to a point where I realized 1 hour of no-Cursor coding can be done in 10 minutes or less using Cursor agent. It's absolutely amazing, let me just say that.
But because of the issues with Anthropic's endpoint, I was forced to try out gpt-4o, and other models. But nothing beats Claude-3.5(7)-Sonnet. The flow of work and bug-free features are unbeatable. I also started exploring something else -> Void IDE. It's a Y Combinator backed open-source tool just like Cursor. I also learned that Qwen-2.5-coder would be a good open source model to code, on par with Anthropic's model when it comes to coding. Combining these two things, I won't need Cursor anymore. However, I didn't go that route because Void still has some catching up to do, but they'll get there.
For years, "learn to code" was a golden rule for career growth. But with AI assistants writing entire functions, debugging code, and even generating full applications, is traditional coding knowledge still essential?
Will the future of development be prompt engineering rather than coding?
Will AI make deep knowledge of algorithms and system design more important, while reducing the need for syntax memorization?
If AI does the coding, what skills will become most valuable for future developers?
Hi everyone, CEO of Bolt here! Super excited to open up about our journey and offer any learnings and stories I can to help other makers on their journey. Within a span of 2 months we've grown to $20M in revenue and were recently featured in NYT as paving the way for vibe coding.
I support structured, high-value discussions nobody wants forums filled with spam and self-promotion. But here s the issue: understanding what qualifies as valuable.
Product Hunt s updated guidelines push for original, engaging, and non-replicable content. Makes sense. But when posts disappear without clear reasoning, it creates confusion.
Where s the line between sharing insights and self-promotion?
What defines a post as high-value in this new system?
Why not offer feedback instead of outright removals?
Stronger moderation is great if paired with transparency. Instead of guessing what works, clearer guidelines and examples could help everyone create better discussions.
Unlike other social media platforms, I perceive a lower level of "centralization of power" on Reddit (such as in the comparison of X Musk, IG, FB Zuckerberg, which are starting to become politically tinged).
I'm starting to see this place as a more reliable and balanced source of information, where discussions can be held at a high level, perhaps also due to sometimes stricter moderation.
It s Saturday, and here s your weekly dose of what s shaking up tech, marketing, and AI. Let s dive in!
Social Media and Marketing Updates
Instagram: Testing DM upgrades, a dislike button for comments, and Testimonials in Partnership Ads.
Twitter / X: Launched Grok 3, but Elon jacked up Premium+ from $16 to $40/month. X users are upset 150% hike for AI perks and priority posts? Cancel culture s hitting the platform hard.
YouTube: Rolling out Veo 2 AI from Google DeepMind for creators. Video generation s about to get a sci-fi glow-up on YouTube.
LinkedIn: Added Email Open Rates and Sends to Newsletter analytics.
WhatsApp: Testing social media links in profiles and an AI chat tab. Meta s turning it into a mini-social hub. WhatsApp Beta feature lets you customize voice message transcriptions.
Digital Marketing: Meta s AI ad push is the talk of the town automated campaigns are a marketer s dream.
I am trying to gather tools directly developed for the Product Hunt platform that could possibly help you with the launch. This is what I have gathered so far.
Advanced PH Scrapper extracting data of launches into the charts
Hunted Space calendar & stats for upvotes, comments, upvote speed
Launchgrid something like a database of launches from PH & HN
Launchpedia kits (PH resources)
Product Hunt favourites extension for bookmarking
Product Hunt trending overview of successful launches (ranking)
I tend to just get an idea, and try to use AI now to get a basic framework. Then after kinda aim to get the core functionality down before moving towards UI and Design...however I often get stuck once it's on UI design as I can never get it the way I like. As I try to add more features I kinda get lost in the code and then break other things and eventually either abandon the app or simply decide to keep it super simple at the expense of features. Does anyone have any recs or process that could help in my app making journey? TIA!!
I support structured, high-value discussions nobody wants forums filled with spam and self-promotion. But here s the issue: understanding what qualifies as valuable.
Product Hunt s updated guidelines push for original, engaging, and non-replicable content. Makes sense. But when posts disappear without clear reasoning, it creates confusion.
Where s the line between sharing insights and self-promotion?
What defines a post as high-value in this new system?
Why not offer feedback instead of outright removals?
Stronger moderation is great if paired with transparency. Instead of guessing what works, clearer guidelines and examples could help everyone create better discussions.
