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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.

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

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).

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

Seagull translates conversations as they happen - in 60+ languages, right on your phone.

How it works:

Conversation Mode: Sit across from someone who speaks a different language. Seagull listens to both of you and shows translated subtitles in real time. No passing the phone back and forth.

Subtitle Mode: Translate any audio playing around you a lecture, a video call, a TV show, someone speaking at a conference. Live subtitles, instantly.

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!

In March 2017, I launched a crowdfunding campaign for a stylish leather backpack, driven by two goals: cover production costs and build a thriving brand that could grow beyond a single product.

But when the campaign failed, reality hit hard. Even if it had succeeded, what next? One production run then what? How do you sustain and scale beyond that initial push?

Validate First. Fund Smart. Scale Fast.

Stop gambling on inventory. Fundlify transforms the "pre-order" from a simple button into a strategic lifecycle.

• Phase 1: Frictionless Validation. Run a pre-launch to collect high-intent reservations without the friction of a checkout.

• Phase 2: Intelligent Funding. Transition automatically to crowdfunding with multi-tier rewards, stretch goals, and deposit-based pledges.

• Phase 3: Automated Conversion. When your goal is hit, Fundlify handles the heavy lifting converting pledges into native Shopify orders where taxes, shipping, and discounts are already synced.

Traditional crowdfunding forces you to rent an audience on a third-party site. Fundlify lets you own the house. Keep 100% of your customer data, maintain a unified brand experience, and skip the massive platform commissions.

Two days ago, I shared the 10k mistake product owners make with AI search. The response was overwhelming.

Since then, we've more than doubled our dataset at Rankfender. And many found they were invisible.

But here's what scared me more:

Of those who WERE visible, 43% had incorrect information in AI answers.

We've been building Naoma for over a year. Pivoted from a sales analytics platform, rewrote the product from scratch, ran pilots, iterated, broke things, fixed them.

Tomorrow we launch on Product Hunt.

The idea is simple: B2B buyers shouldn't have to wait 5 days to see your product. Naoma runs a live AI demo the moment they click qualifies them, walks through the product, routes the right leads to sales or checkout. No scheduling. No waiting.

We've been building Genie - an AI analyst inside Databox, and one thing kept coming up in user research: people don't lack data. They lack fast answers.

Dashboards exist. Reports get built. But when someone asks "why are signups down this week?" or "are we on pace to hit our revenue target?" - getting a clear answer still takes hours.

We're launching Genie on Product Hunt on March 18th, and we'd love to hear from you before we do:

What's the moment where your current analytics setup lets you down most?

If you're a product owner, founder, or builder reading this, I want to talk about something that's costing you money right now.

You probably don't know it's happening.

Here's what I've learned after analyzing 500+ SaaS products, tools, and digital products at Rankfender.

The Mistake

On Friday I took my first salary as a founder.
Paid by revenue. Not investment.
My first one ever. So proud.
Most startups die before they make $1.
We ve been making revenue for 8 months.
Even after pivoting from @Dolphin AI.
I don t take this lightly.
But it isn t about money. It s about the milestone.
The fact that something didn t exist and now it does.
Something people want.
Are happy to pay for.
And happy to be part of.
@Pretty Prompt keeps surprising me week after week.

And it all started here on PH .
If I could talk to my 2023 self, I d say: "Just keep pushing".
Doesn t matter if you don t come from a CS degree, or didn t go to an Ivy League.

What matters is your ability to adapt, and move fast.
This is proof. And I m super proud.
I took my wife out for dinner.
If I was motivated before
Wait for what we ll do next with Charlie, my co-founder!
Here s to the next Pretty milestone.
And building things people want.

Road to 1,000,000 #Votap users Day 52 | Current: 1257

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 understand that everyone comes here with the hope of winning the Product of the Day award (at least one of the top three spots).

But so what does that mean for you?

Are you going to sell more products/subscriptions?

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

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?

If I'm being honest, I'm online (and on PC in general) more than is healthy. Never less than 12 to 14 hours a day.

In practice, I use it most often for:

creating graphics

This one's mostly a Windows release.

The main change: if you're on Windows and using the Expressive or Multilingual engine, generation now runs on your GPU rather than your CPU. It's faster. It kicks in automatically with no setup needed. If your GPU doesn't support it for some reason, the app falls back to CPU without any fuss. You'll see a small GPU label in the engine selector when it's active.

Two other fixes landed with it:

Some Windows users were hitting a crash on startup. Tracked it down and patched it.

A story and an experiment have been spreading on X: Scientists uploaded the brain of a fruit fly into a computer, and now it lives freely in its own simulation.

We managed to clone the physical form of animals more than 30 years ago (for example, the cloning of a goat using SCNT in 1999). There was even a controversial case in China where a scientist was sued after attempting to create gene-edited babies in 2018.