Zania Z.

Driven just finished its first Product Hunt launch, and one of the most valuable parts was reading the comments.

Not just the compliments, but the questions.

A few themes stood out:

1. Trust comes before automation

AI agents are already changing how we work. Hard to deny that now.

People are building new habits around digital companions and agents in funny ways.
I even know someone who had a brand-new phone ready, but still delayed switching because their little @OpenClaw lobster was living on the old one.
Many of us now use agents to summarize, draft, search, code, organize tasks, or monitor things in the background.

I think investing is next.

A lot of investing still depends on manual habits: checking prices, reading news, following filings, tracking earnings, reviewing portfolios, and trying not to miss important signals.

Not sure how many people in the PH community actively follow investing, US stocks, or the market.

But I think investing is an interesting test case for AI agents.

It is a high-trust domain. Not every task should be automated right away, and users should not give up control easily.

But there are also many places where agents can reduce a lot of manual work: