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We teamed up with Vercel and we want you shipping this Friday.
May 15 is Vercel Day. Launch your product on Product Hunt that day with the Vercel Day tag and you're on the official Vercel Day leaderboard alongside every other builder going live that day. Top launches win prizes and get serious visibility from a crowd that's already paying attention.
This is the move if you've been waiting for a reason to launch. You've got four days.
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1. I've always been on the personal brand side. More and more founders are building it now (sometimes even before the product is ready while it's still in development, before seed fundraising). The CEO builds their position so the product sells more easily at the official launch.

2. But I have experience with people who built the product, scaled it, and only then did we discover who was behind it.

Honestly, with the first approach, I'd be concerned that people invest more in me as a person than in the product. People would idealise the founder and overlook the product's flaws (which could hurt development and constructive feedback).

+ I noticed the most common mistake that many people who started building a personal brand first, connected their product to their personal accounts (emails, social media, etc.) and started having a problem selling these things, because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles.

A lot of people try to raise funding before they even begin.

And then sometimes I read those zero to hero stories. (Maybe they re a bit "polished" by the media to have publicity.)

In any case, building products has become much easier from a technical perspective, which also makes it cheaper especially for software startups.

There are founders you d love to NOT work for. And then there are founders whose company you wouldn t want to leave, no matter what.

A big part of that comes down to people, their values, and their character.

And often, that starts with the founder.

Tomorrow is Alpha Day

Same deal as before. If this is the first time your product is going anywhere public, launch by midnight tonight (PT time), add the Alpha launch tag, and you'll be put on a special leaderboard. Alpha launches also get a boost on the leaderboard

2 significant things are circulating on the internet simultaneously this week:

• A tweet about how a human beat a machine (a 10-hour livestream in which a human sorted packages and compared it to the productivity of a robot).

• Or an announcement of a Microsoft AI chief that predicts AI will automate most white-collar work within 18 months.

While I don't think there will be a complete replacement of humans in either case, I do think we will see mass layoffs. My guess is that it will be white-collar jobs first.

On May 19, 2026, at Google I/O, the company announced the most sweeping set of changes to Google Search in over 25 years. The core shift? Moving from a box where you type keywords to a control panel where you deploy AI agents to do things for you.

Here is what changed and why it matters for brands.

1. The Era of "Information Agents" has arrived

You no longer have to keep searching for the same thing repeatedly.

I will go first.

"Do you do backlinks?"

Every week. Sometimes every day. From prospects. From agencies. From people who read one SEO blog post from 2018.

Backlinks are not the problem. Backlinks are a solution to a problem that has changed.

There seems to have two types of developers:

• Human in the loop: Those who like to control the behavior of their agents as it works, looking at the context usage, reading reasoning blocks, and approving individual file edits.

• Agent first: Those who prefer to review the output of agents, rather than individual actions, and run one or more sessions in parallel.

What type of developer are you when working with AI coding agents?

AI has undoubtedly made our work easier and faster.

An article that would have taken me several days before (defining the topic, doing research, interviewing experts for unique insights, validating data, and writing the final piece) can now be turned into a solid article in under two hours. (in my case, when I publish a weekly newsletter)

Yesterday s discussion about who is more likely to be replaced (white-collar vs. blue-collar workers) raised another question for me.

So I m asking:

What do we need to do to keep our jobs in the age of AI and robotisation?

Spotify started the disco ball party last week. Notion, MoonPay, Uniswap joined. Even Lovable showed up late with a tool to discomorph any logo. 

I feel like the weird lonely dude on the Product Hunt dance floor.

If you're launching soon, drop your disco ball logo in the comments
Use: https://discomorphism.lovable.app

AI is incredibly good, I d even say almost perfect.

And for many people, that uniformity of perfect templates is starting to feel annoying.

We thought we were ready.

Bigger deals. Fewer customers. Better margins. That was the dream.

So we built enterprise features. SSO. Advanced permissions. Audit logs. A whole new pricing tier starting at $2,000/month.

We spent 6 months. Three engineers. One dedicated product manager. Endless meetings about "enterprise readiness."

VibeAround v0.6.3 is out.

This release wraps up the bigger v0.6.x shift: VibeAround is becoming a hub for coding agents across desktop, web, terminal, and messaging.

The biggest visible change since v0.5.x is the Web experience: it is now a web-based workspace for running different coding agents side by side, one place to launch, resume, inspect, and switch between agents.

From the browser, you can now:

Let's shine a spotlight on the open-source ecosystem.

What are the best OSS products launched on Product Hunt this year from your perspective?

Dropping here are some of my favorite, most inspiring product launches so far, in no particular order.

People often think LineageLens is just about capturing AI-generated code, but the real value is what happens on
Day 2.

The dashboard turns those intercepted edits into a searchable audit trail. Instead of blindly digging through `git blame`, you can search past AI edits, trace the prompt-to-code workflow, and instantly answer why a specific model wrote a function that way.

I'll go first,
During the launch of @Bitgrain , I thought maybe some 10 20 people might upvote or it can be even lesser, Surprisingly it got featured and the numbers went up crazy! I got mails from people who loved the product. It was unexpected but loved it!
btw do see @Bitgrain : )

What motivates you to build your product? For me with @Bitgrain, it's my passion for creating with graphics. I needed a tool to make grunge posters myself, so I built one, and figured, why not share it with everyone else?
What's yours ??

We've teamed up with @Y Combinator or to give builders one more chance.

Launch on Product Hunt this Friday, tag your post "YC application" @gustaf will personally review the top launches. One or more will walk away with a YC interview, even though the official deadline has passed.

I'll be honest I've never liked the feeling that someone "owns" me.

So being employed was very distant to me. [As if I had no power over my income.]

We re trying something new on Thursday: Alpha Day.

The idea is simple. If this is the first time you re launching your product anywhere, you can tag it alpha and get a boost to your points (and land on a special leaderboard).

One thing that quietly hurts trust in developer tools:

stale signals.

Today, I saw several times on X the case of Meta asking its employees to stay home because they were going to announce layoffs. These two statuses in particular caught my attention (Tweet 1) and (Tweet 2). posts are about Meta layoffs

It seems that with the intention of helping companies (and a little bit of fear of not being fired), we are collaborating on a project that will replace us. So the question here is not "if" but "when". And presumably, if the employees refused, someone else would be found to do it.