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We teamed up with @GoogleCloud for a Cloud Run Hackathon October 14th!

To kick things off, we're celebrating on the leaderboard so you can meet the people behind Cloud Run.

"Companion chatbot" sounds like a product category you would know if you were in it. The statutory definition is broader than that, and the duties are already live.

California SB 243 (Chapter 677, Statutes of 2025) took effect on 1 January 2026. If you ship anything conversational and emotional, it is worth reading the definition against your product instead of assuming it is about someone else.

Jev is only as good as it is calibrated to your use case. We are launching Brussle to make it super easy to calibrate and as part of the launch we are super excited to give 4K free jev calls and calibrations a month. Happy Jev-ing! https://brussle.com/

To build something, expand an idea into a working plan, or simply give life to something new, we need conversations.

But what happens when you're building alone?

I guess it s not just me...

We all have friends who inspire us, challenge us, and help us reach our goals. We can count them as part of our building team too =D

But alongside those friends, there are others who drain your energy, fill your brain with unnecessary info and leave you unable to continue working as you planned after meeting them!

For us, RunEvr is the environment where we actually build RunEvr =)

For me, that s one of the most beautiful parts of having a product - using it while continuing to build and improve it.

We do our everyday calls there, share ideas, chat, store files, do reviews, complete tasks

And all of this is happening inside the same environment we re building to help other teams do exactly that!
Kind of a mirror within a mirror =D

Quick poll for founders (and anyone who tests out new SaaS tools): do you ask for a credit card upfront, or let people straight in?

We went with requiring a card for k dlo. The thinking was pretty simple: fewer signups overall, but higher intent people actually kick the tires instead of bouncing after two minutes. Without a card, you get a flood of accounts that log in once and ghost.

But I m genuinely torn here. A card wall definitely kills casual curiosity, especially when you're an unknown product. On the flip side, no-card trials often just give you vanity metrics that don't convert.

Two quick questions:

Making a product is one big challenge. But shifting your mindset from building to marketing it might be an even bigger one.
As makers, we spend so much time improving the product. Then comes the question: How do we get people to discover it - and ultimately turn that attention into real customers and sales?
I'm not sure traditional approaches like email marketing and constantly posting on social media are enough anymore. The way people discover products is changing.
So I'm curious:

How do you approach marketing your product?
And for the marketers here:
What would you consider a modern marketing approach in 2026-2027? What would you advise an early-stage founder to focus on?
I'd love to hear different perspectives...

We launched today, and we'd rather you hear the limits from us before you install.

• A prompt you type into Claude Code or Codex is not masked, because neither client lets a hook rewrite it. shim reports it, or blocks it under enforce. Copilot CLI is the exception: there the model gets the masked prompt.

• In Claude Code, the output of a failed command can't be replaced. cat .env && cat missing-file exits non-zero and the model reads the .env as is. shim reports it.

• Files attached with @ and shell commands are reported, not masked.

• Codex and Copilot CLI tool traffic isn't inspected yet. VS Code reports but masks nothing.

• Detection is patterns plus checksums. It misses names, postal addresses and passwords with no key name. Treat it as a guard, not a DLP boundary.

• No Windows yet. macOS and Linux work.

Why a hook and not an MCP server? An MCP server only sees calls to its own tools. The agent's built-in Read and Bash never pass through it. A hook sits on the client's own tool calls, so it sees those too.

Which of these would stop you from using it? Your answers decide what we fix first.

Two days out. The Google Cloud Run Hackathon is this Wednesday, October 14, and submissions close at midnight PT tomorrow.

The mechanics, one more time:
- Deploy and run your product on Google Cloud Run that's what makes you eligible
- Schedule your launch for Wednesday, October 14
- Get it in before midnight PT tomorrow

Every eligible launch picks up $50 in Google Cloud credits. Winners take $500 in credits, a spotlight on Google Cloud's own channels, and a 1:1 with the Cloud Run team.

I m not really a person who likes sharing my everyday life online =)
That s one of the reasons I m really happy to be part of the Product Hunt community.

I like being able to stay in touch with like-minded people and have everyday conversations about things we re building, learning, and interested in.
But I understand that social media is a big part of today s lifestyle, and it s absolutely great that it gives people a way to connect, share, and find each other.

So, I m curious:

Do you have social media as a maker?

I'm launching V2 of http://designeer.xyz with a completely reimagined UI and a few things I've been wanting to add for a while.
- Discover visual work from independent creators and studios across interfaces, motion, typography and experimental digital art
- Save your go-to tools to Favourites for quick access
- Create folders to organise and keep track of everything you discover
- Get your product in front of 100K+ unique visitors a month with featured listings starting at $49
Bringing the best of the internet together, now with a whole new experience.

I just walked out of the gym, and I feel ready to move mountains! =D

For a while, I gave up exercising. And yesterday, the bell rang when my teammate asked the whole team: When was the last time you did some sport?

What do you think about support - or have you even thought about it? =D

Do you think every product must have some kind of support?

Should it be a bot?
A human?
Email?
An AI agent?
Or all together?

In our case, with a complex workspace, I think working support is definitely a must.

Hi everyone

Based on some of your recent feedback, I've released a major feature update to track every cloud services deprecation and end-of-support deadline directly inside Cloud Releases.

A countdown for every retirement. The new Deprecations page lists every retirement and end-of-support notice by the day it takes effect, soonest first, with the days left next to each one.

AI can draft a reply, build a small app, or run a routine task. But being able to automate something does not always mean you want to hand it over.

Sometimes doing it yourself is how you notice a problem or understand what someone actually needs.

Over the last year I went from one side project to 7+. Shipping got cheap; keeping an eye on everything didn't. So I built the screen I wanted: every project in one place, sorted by what needs me first.

Today it covers, for every project from one script tag:

Hey everyone! BiBimba 1.5.0 is out.

Two things I wanted to make easier: finding a link inside an old screenshot, and getting images into the format I need.

Find a QR code without remembering its link.
Type URL in BiBimba s search, and screenshots containing QR codes with web links will show up even when URL isn t written anywhere in the image. Select one, press Ctrl+U, and pick the link to copy or paste.

Convert images right from Finder.
Select an image or several in the same format and press Ctrl+Shift+F. Choose PNG, JPG, HEIC, TIFF, or WebP, then press Enter. You can also use Finder s right-click Services menu. Converted copies are saved beside the originals, which stay untouched.

You open an app to finish one awkward job, get the result, and might not need it again for a month.

A monthly plan can feel expensive for that pattern, even when the app saves real time. The alternatives have their own tradeoffs:

Someone spends twenty minutes preparing an import. They click Run and only then learn that their file is too large for the plan.

What should the app do with the work they have already put in?

In every community, we naturally find people we love to communicate with, interact with, or simply follow.

From my very first day on Product Hunt, some people became little lighthouses for me here.

The moment I signed up, I noticed @busmark_w_nika and her threads. She became one of those people I always enjoy following here.

Then came @amraniyasser and @bengeekly .
And that was only my first day =D

Thanks for all the input on the card vs. no-card debate last time, you guys gave us a ton of great feedback, and we took it to heart. We re figuring this out as we go. We test stuff, get things wrong, and fix them. And yeah, this was definitely one of those things.

So, k dlo is officially free to start now. No credit card, no ticking clock. Just sign up and use it.

Open invite to anyone in the trenches: if you re building something and outbound sales is giving you a headache right now, give it a spin. Especially if the product is built, but customer #1 is nowhere to be seen, or you're just staring at a blank screen wondering who to reach out to and what to say.

k dlo basically handles that grind: finding leads, doing the background research, and drafting that first message in one spot so you're not juggling five tabs.

Hi everyone,

This is a first look at the Autonomous Electronics engineer.

You give it a brief and it builds the board in stages: spec, block diagram, schematic, E-Sketch, layout, route, ECAD. Each stage is its own artifact you can open and inspect.

Our bold vision is for Everyone, regardless of their engineering know-how, to be able to create functional, manufacturable, multidisciplinary products using natural language - electronics, mechanical, controls and software/firmware. The same experience folks enjoy in tools like Lovable for vibe-coding, extended to complex, real-life systems.
We will continuously extend our part libraries for electronics and add specialized functions, like LED chip creation.
Soon we'll start a public PCB/chip library on our website, stay tuned.

Today we can all brag about our agents =)

Almost every product has them, everyone works with them, gives them names, and creates the specialists they need to work better and faster.

In RunEvr, we currently have two types of agents: those who help with the system and overall coordination, and those who work as creative artists.

Let me introduce some of our lovely ones!

I'm not talking about the obviously ridiculous AI hallucinations. I'm talking about those answers that looked completely believable until someone actually checked the numbers.

Maybe it was a calculation, a misleading chart, or a metric that meant something entirely different from what the AI assumed. What happened, and how did you catch it?