Product Hunt is best known for its homepage, a daily leaderboard of the most creative and innovative products on the internet. Makers go all out to win launch day, because that visibility matters. Product Hunt also plays a significant role in how products appear in Google search results.

What surprised us was that AI assistants like ChatGPT were rarely citing Product Hunt in product recommendations.

I posted a random thread on X about the cost of living in the Netherlands. Nothing about what we're building. Just genuine thoughts about life in the Netherlands.

It hit 1M+ impressions. And here's the weird part we got a ton of signups and paid users for Starnus from it. Without ever mentioning the product.

Meanwhile, my "here's what Starnus does" posts? Way less engagement.

This genuinely messed with my head. I'm sharing the actual X post below

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.

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?

Since I haven't been able to meet my work goals very well in the last few quarters, I now plan to approach them more systematically and not push myself too hard on work goals, as that ultimately led to problems that made my plan less sustainable.

So here is my structure and list:

Quick update after launch:

We re now building the Team version of Cencurity.

What we noticed from the comments and DMs is that teams aren t just worried about model performance

they re worried about auditability and control.

The latest version now includes plan diffs:

https://plannotator.ai/blog/plan...

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?

Here's what it came up with

Nano Banana + knowledge sources + reference images for styling = so good

At the beginning of the year, 2 co-founders reached out to me because they wanted to scale their personal LinkedIn profiles. The reason: In a few months, they re planning to raise funding and believe their personal brand could help.

A few days ago, another founder contacted me with a similar intention, although he s not planning to raise funding. For him, LinkedIn has become the platform that generates the most leads. He doesn t particularly enjoy the network itself, but he still wants to keep building it.

Road to 1,000,000 Votap users Day 42 | Current: 1116

Dear my friends,

Tomorrow (Feb 24th) I'm launching NotiSprite Studio, a companion app to NotiSprite that lets you create your own animated desktop sprites.

In 2026, products are more powerful, more layered, and evolving every week. At the same time, nobody has patience for fluff.

So how long should a product demo actually be?

Is it a tight 60-second overview that earns attention?
A focused 2 3 minute walkthrough that shows real value?
Or a 10+ minute deep dive for people who are seriously evaluating?

We all know the pain of Meeting AI Fatigue. Most tools force an awkward bot into your call or deliver summaries long after decisions are made.
But we believe AI should do more than just record it should be Agentic. Since we re bringing AI into our meetings, it should proactively help us automate tasks and move work forward right from the conversation.
We built SuperIntern to be that proactive assistant one that stays invisible but works harder than anyone else in the room.

Product Image Movie > https://youtu.be/_DAittQr0Ks
Here is why SuperIntern is different:

Invisible & Universal: No bots. It captures audio directly from your system, meaning it works on Zoom, Google Meet, Slack, or even a local video file. Your privacy stays intact.

First of all, I want to thank you for voting for us in yesterday's launch - you still can, the week is not over. HERE

Second thing, I summarised some things that I realised, reflected on, and maybe should have known sooner:

Hi Product Hunters
Multitasking can be tough honestly and sometimes trying to balance building, sharing the word, support and sharing lessons with the community turns out to be a full time job but we are excited to be back here!!!

As our mission at Founding Dev is to make SaaS more accessible for businesses without back breaking costs, we are launching our 2nd product - @GoSign.work

This post is actually inspired by a tweet from @sandradjajic + an update here on PH from @chrismessina.

A few days ago I saw this:

Launching PulseKit is only the beginning of our journey. We are on a mission to connect you all to the most relevant metrics to help you achieve, what we call - ambient metric awareness.
We're keen on hearing which integrations to build next on top of our existing pipeline.

When I first started, I believed that as long as I built a great product, it would naturally become popular. But as I zoomed out, I realized the market is incredibly competitive. Having a good product alone isn t enough to truly convince users.

That s when I began building my presence on social media creating content about myself, sharing my journey, and talking about the product I m building. I ve come to see this as a very effective way to build trust and spark genuine interest not only in what I make, but also in who I am as a founder.

Hey everyone,

I've built my product around traditional SaaS pricing (monthly tiers), but I m starting to wonder if that model is getting outdated, especially with more AI-powered and compute-heavy tools entering the market.
That shift requires real architectural changes, instrumentation, metering, billing logic, and UI changes, not just pricing tweaks. It s something I m starting to seriously think about for my own product.

In particular, AI usage has real COGs (every prompt costs money), and I m seeing more platforms experimenting with usage-based models, or hybrids like SaaS base + usage + overage.

For those of you building AI or compute-intensive tools:

We're thrilled to launch Simplora 2.0 today on Product Hunt!

This is something I ll find out in just a short while, one week from now (Jan 28), as I m about to re-launch a digital detox app. If you want, follow, maybe you will be on watch of my steps and activities

However, that s not the main point of this post.

We re officially in nominees season for the Orbit Awards: AI Workflow Automation.

After our first launch on Product Hunt, our team spent a little over a month upgrading the product. There were major changes to the UI and several new features added, so the process took time from discussions and redesigning the interface to testing, fixing bugs, and updating AI prompts.

We re also a very small team, so everyone had to push themselves to give 200%. Time and resources are limited, and at the same time, we also had to work on securing funding for the next six months to keep the team running and continue developing the app.