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tldr: yes. Shoutouts are one of the simplest distribution levers on Product Hunt.

Shoutouts are meant to pay it forward and highlight the tools that helped you build. But beyond goodwill, they create durable distribution for your product on Product Hunt and across LLM driven discovery.

When you shout out a product during launch, it becomes a founder review on that product s page. Founder reviews sit above regular reviews and include a link to both your profile and your product. That means your product is now attached to every future visit to that product s review page, long after launch day. For example, check out @timliao s shoutout of @Framer or @guymanzur s shoutout of @Base44

If you re still sitting on your launch, this is the push.

YC made a special exception for this community: one or more companies that launch tomorrow will get a YC interview and potentially funding. A YC partner will review every eligible launch.

Let me start from the creator s perspective:
I personally don t have a product (apart from hiring people for creative work or offering personal consultations).

But as a creator, I constantly share content, insights, and information, value that helps me build trust (for free). Based on that perceived expertise, people eventually decide to work with me (a paid service).

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.

There are so many launches on Product Hunt every day. How do you decide which ones are worth clicking into?

What s your #1 filter or shortcut?

Guys, a month ago, Anna, a product designer, reached out to me from the ProblemHunt community. She described her problem in detail in DMs. It was probably the most genuine and sincere description of pain I have ever seen. Anna has this ability to talk about her problems with complete openness and raw emotion for any researcher, it's an absolute gift.

Today she shared a new problem, and I've just posted it now. It's hard for me to convey the tone through text in a post, but trust me, it's genuinely painful. It's that intense fear of a designer becoming obsolete in the era of AI.

Road to 1,000,000 Votap users Day 53 | Current: 1275
What if your username was part random, part you?
We re adding user tags to Votap so people can reply to each other, tag users, and have real discussions. But we still want to keep anonymity.
So instead of people typing anything they want, tags are generated from a predefined pool of words.
You pick from a few simple categories Then the app generates combinations like:
adjective + noun + number
But here s the fun part. You ll be able to reroll and randomize until you land on one you like. It turns something boring (creating a username) into a little game. And somehow it s way more fun than just typing a name.
Lots of new features coming to Votap soon.
Download Votap from the App Store if you want to follow along.
More tomorrow.

TL;DR: Anthropic refused to sign a contract with the Pentagon that would have allowed the U.S. military to use all of its models without restrictions. Anthropic insisted on an exception, and brace yourself, that its models cannot be used: 1) for mass surveillance of citizens, 2) for autonomous killing. Now the administration is threatening that if the founder of Anthropic doesn't change his mind by a certain date, they will come after him.

Google, OpenAI, and Musk (Grok) have all signed the contract.

Following Sam Altman's announcement over the past few hours, people have been speaking out massively about cancelling their OpenAI subscriptions and subscribing to Claude.

We re launching Glam AI today: an AI platform for creating trendy image and video content.

To celebrate the launch, our team created a fun video with the Product Hunt team (@rajiv_ayyangar and @rrhoover). You can see it on X.

When you build a startup, it is easy to fall in love with your own product. The landing page looks slick. The app feels polished. In your head, it seems obvious people should be showing up. Then reality hits. No traffic, no users, no momentum. You start wondering how something that feels so good can still feel invisible.

That was my wake up call with Brzzy Weather. I thought if I built a great weather app and optimized around weather app search, people would find me. Instead, I got humbled fast. I was basically a nothing burger buried deep in Google(does anyone even use Bing?), somewhere around page five, and most people searching never make it past the top few results. It made me realize that having a product is not the same thing as having a funnel.

Meow world, welcome back to The Breakpoint, a weekly thread on all things dev tools on Product Hunt.

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Recent dev-first products launched on the site

KiloClaw pricing is live.

$49/month for hosted compute. Zero markup on AI tokens. 500+ models.

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!

Six months ago, I launched a product.

Beautiful landing page. Great onboarding. Real customers. Solid retention.

One problem: AI never mentioned it.

Not in ChatGPT. Not in Perplexity. Not in Gemini.

YC mentioning AI-native agencies really resonated with us.

We started Starnus as a self-serve product. But pretty quickly, founders started asking us to help them run it too.

That happened enough times that it became clear this was not random.

A lot of people do not just want software.

Most of my classmates from elementary school, high school, and university have been married for a long time and have had kids for at least 4  5 years.

But none of them started a business. They got jobs, their shift ends at 5 on Friday, and then they go enjoy their free time.

I recently saw a marketer with 10k+ followers launch and finish 6th with 348 upvotes. They followed a proper pre-launch and post-launch plan, did everything right, and still the outcome felt unpredictable.

Now I m launching @Curatora next week.

I m not a marketer. I have a little over 1k followers. Of course, asking for support helps. But I also keep hearing that a large part of the Product Hunt community shows up mainly for their own launch, then goes quiet until the next one.

That makes me wonder: how much of success here is strategy, and how much is timing and network effect?

I didn't know no-shows waste 15-40% of every sales team's calendar until I met a stranger at Web Summit.
I was standing by our booth when someone wandered over and started asking about what we're building at @Meet-Ting. I assumed he was just curious.
Then he mentioned his company loses a lot of time to no-shows across his sales team. I asked how many.
"We get 10,000 inbound demos a month."
He walked off eventually, and someone came over to me and said: "Do you know who that was?".

Turns out he was the Head of Sales at a European unicorn.

We stayed in touch. And that conversation became a feature!
We call it 'No Show Recovery'.
Ting watches your calendar. If it notices the other person didn't show up, it asks if you want help rescheduling - automatically, inside the same thread.
When you're running 10k sales calls a month and 15-40% don't show, recovering even 1-5% is hundreds of meetings saved and potential $$$s.
Other lesson, talk to people as if you want and expect nothing in return.

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

According to @RevenueCat 's State of Subscription Apps 2026 report, "hard paywalls convert 5x better than freemium, but with significantly wider variance."

Day 35 download-to-paid, freemium vs. hard paywall

Does access method impact download-to-paid conversion within 35 days?

New AI models pop up every week. Some developer tools like @Cursor, @Zed, and @Kilo Code let you choose between different models, while more opinionated products like @Amp and @Tonkotsu default to 1 model.

Curious what the community recommends for coding tasks? Any preferences?

Most people are using AI wrong and I was one of them.

For the first year, I used AI like a fancy Google. "Write me a product description." "Summarize this." "Give me 10 ideas for X." Useful? Sure. Transformative? Not really.

Hi Product Hunt! We ve just released a new version of MultiDrive.

We also created a Windows PE boot image with MultiDrive that automatically launches after booting. So you can clone or restore a system drive, make backups, and handle recovery tasks even when Windows won t boot.

MultiDrive is still completely free - no ads, no registration.

Hi all!
Checking in to let you know that V1.9 is now live! it addresses some rather important areas for improvement that i identified such as slight deviations in the RGB and HEX values - this issue is now non-existent and colours will always be consistent.
I also addressed an issue where resizing canvas was resulting in modified class data positions - this is now also fixed.
i will be providing a parser for you to use in XCode to turn the exported JSON into a usable project file for game creation, so keep a look out on https://quantumrogers.com
TilePix App Store Link:
https://apps.apple.com/app/tilep...
Happy Creating!
Liam.

1. 5 partners 5 different CV templates. Managers spend 20 40 minutes on each adaptation, up to 15 times a week. Over a year of this routine. No ready-made solutions found.

2. Healthcare professionals want AI for diagnosis, documentation, and patient care but training doesn't scale and tools feel too technical. Need a simple, clinically relevant path.