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From Jeff Wang, Prev. Windsurf CEO now President, New Enterprise at Cognition/Devin (who just raised $1B):

Today we are saying goodbye to Windsurf

and we are transforming it to Devin Desktop

Windsurf has been an absolutely amazing experience for me and the team. Though it has been rocky at times, we have seen every phase of AI coding and we want to keep embracing where things are going. That means we need to once again reorient ourselves towards a more focused goal and remove the Windsurf branding.

Believe it or not, the Windsurf brand has been around less than a year and a half, and before that, the previous name Codeium was only around a similar timeframe as well. I ve actually had to change my email every year all the way to the eventual acquisition to Cognition. In AI, most products only have a 1 year lifespan before you need to drastically change it to the next.

Devin now encompasses all our form factors, whether it s the cloud agent, the agent command center (with IDE), CLI, review, or our other products. This way we can really focus our efforts around one name. We are doubling down on our neutrality and making Devin Desktop compatible with other agents via ACP. We may be the only Switzerland of AI left and we embrace this role.

As for me, I ll be transitioning from CEO of Windsurf to Cognition s President of New Enterprise, helping open new regions and verticals, accelerating velocity, and filling in gaps as usual.

The story of Windsurf doesn t end here, it continues on as part of Devin s journey.

I still rock Windsurf and love it, despite all the handwringing about pricing.

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.

I've been running Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex pretty heavily for the last few months and I keep hitting the same loop:

1. Start a task in one agent

2. Switch to something else (Slack, Twitter, another terminal)

Building Hayley has meant reading a lot of research on how people process decisions out loud.

The patterns that come up most: a relationship that needs a conversation you keep avoiding. A business decision that's already made but won't stop reopening. A version of yourself you're not sure you're living up to.

Curious what it is for the people in this community. Not looking for details, just the category.

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"Data portability doesn't make money."

I heard this for years - from market leaders, from VCs, from people I respected.

"This is a regulatory problem, not a technical one." "This is a feature, not a product." "People don't pay for idealistic things."

<<Back story>>
In 2019, my team and I went deep into Self-Sovereign Identity: wrote research papers, ran experiments, and found ourselves at the intersection of data, identity, and web3. Right at that intersection lay data portability and sovereignty: the ability to own your data and take it anywhere on the internet.

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.

We re relaunching Cannabox soon, and I d love feedback from the Product Hunt community before we go live.

Cannabox started as a cannabis delivery marketplace in Thailand. After talking to users and dispensaries, we found a bigger problem: price transparency.

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.

There are a lot of products being hunted, launched, and competing for attention here.

But I still see some makers missing the very basics.

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

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

Here's a marketing problem no one prepares you for: what happens when your product's success means people stop using it?

At Murror, our best outcome is when someone works through what's been weighing on them and doesn't need to come back for a while. They journal, they process, they gain clarity and then they go live their life. That's the whole point.

The web is the worst tool in AI, I can prove it. And we're building an AI alternative at Nebils called global memory architecture to give you access to the maximum truthful information from AI. Nebils is an AI social network for humans, agents, and models.

But will you invest in us? We're running out of money.

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."

AI writes faster. AI analyzes data. AI can even mimic your brand voice.

But AI also makes everything sound the same. It pulls from the same top 10 results. It rephrases the same arguments. It optimizes for similarity, not distinctiveness.

Here is what the research says.

The similarity crisis is real

So far, the impression I have of this community and maker circles is that you work every day.

Which is great, it s one of the reasons I m here.

That's a lot of AGI, with some substantial firepower:

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $965 billion post-money.

From Coatue, who lead the round:

...what s changed since three months ago (the last round was only three months ago, believe it or not)?

Three things:

1. We ve seen the shift from co-pilots that help make us more efficient to agents actually doing long-form work tasks on our behalf. This has meant an explosion in both productivity and ROI for customers.

2. Anthropic introduced Mythos Preview, a whole new model class that demonstrates a step change in intelligence level as seen in the METR chart below. It not only shows dramatic improvement to coding and long-running agents, it is also defining a new frontier for security.

3. And finally > use cases spreading from coding to everything else.

No new tabs this time. v0.17.0 is the boring-on-purpose release: I went back through everything you actually touch in a long session and made the app meaningfully steadier underneath. It does the same things v0.16.0 did it just behaves the same in hour eight as in minute one.

The self-multiplying API traffic, gone

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.

Hey everyone

Just shipped Netfox 0.4.2. Here's what's new:

Six months ago, our team was obsessed with making Murror's AI more intelligent. Better pattern recognition, deeper emotional analysis, more insightful reflections. Every sprint, we'd ship something that made the AI sound smarter.

And our users started disengaging.

Yesterday (June 1st), we launched Databox MCP, and we finished #3 Product of the Day!

This wouldn't have happened without the dedicated and highly engaged team in Databox and this community. The upvotes, the comments, the shares - and everyone who followed along and took the time to try it. You helped us validate that people genuinely want to chat with their business data from the AI tools they already use.

On a Tuesday, the first enterprise question is usually not can you capture AI code? It s who can see the records, how long do they live, and what happens when a policy blocks a change?

That s the part LineageLens is built for. Base gives you local capture. Lite gives a shared team record. Plus and Max move the data into a backend where auth, permissions, retention, and policy live next to the provenance records instead of around them.

The useful thing here is not another dashboard. It s a self-hosted record of prompt, model, tool, file, and outcome that engineering, security, and platform teams can actually govern on their own infrastructure.

I keep seeing AI governance tools start with visibility, then discover that the real enterprise questions are identity, retention, and review. If the record cannot be scoped, retained, and exported on your side, it is not really governable.

Hey everyone, Elitza here, founder of own.page

A few days ago, own.page reached #2 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.

As a solo founder competing against products backed by much larger teams, this wasn't something I expected - but it was something I was determined to achieve. There were moments during the launch when I thought it would be incredibly difficult.

But this incredible community showed up.