... years by people who cared about how it feels to use. Dark, considered interfaces. Whitespace that isn't accidental. Content that is the product, not decoration bolted onto a spreadsheet. The short answer to "what's the best LinkedIn alternative in 2026" is this: builders aren't looking for another feed. They're looking for a professional network that was actually designed, not just maintained. That's the gap forg.to is built to close. Here's why the gap exists ... ... forg Launchpad in front of an audience of people who actually build things not bots, not tire-kickers. Most launch platforms give a product one loud day and then let it disappear. Forg treats launch day as chapter

... company has previously acquired brands including Evernote, Vimeo, WeTransfer, and Eventbrite. Interesting timing as well: this is Bending Spoons first acquisition after its Nasdaq debut earlier this year. The bigger question: Can Bending Spoons turn Airtable into the next chapter of enterprise software or will the acquisition change the product that millions of teams already rely on? What do you think? Comment from Chris Messina(@chrismessina): Airtable was already overpriced. This is going to make it worse! I'm going ... ... report on except the slow-motion car crash of our SaaS dominance. "Mom Clock" indeed because apparently, it's time for American enterprise to pack it up and go home. Will Bending Spoons turn Airtable into the next chapter

... truly matters for creative teams. A launch isn't just about visibility. It's about learning. Thank you to everyone who took the time to ask questions, share feedback, and support us. You've already helped shape the next chapters of RunEvr, and we're incredibly grateful. This was our first launch - but definitely not our last. For other founders who launched on Product Hunt: what was the most valuable thing you learned from your launch experience? Comment from Akarsh ... ... Hegde(@akarsh_hegde): Congrats on the launch Every repeated question becomes a signal that something in the messaging, onboarding, or product flow can be sharper. Wishing RunEvr a strong next chapter

... thousands of writers could build the same fictional world together and readers could decide which path becomes canon? That s what Chillpen is. It s a collaborative storytelling platform where anyone can: Start a story or world. Add new chapters and alternate

... Store and Google Play next week Kognis will officially be launching! I genuinely can't wait for everyone to experience what we've been building, and I'm excited to hear your feedback as we begin this next chapter. Thank you to everyone who's supported the journey so far. This is just the beginning. #Kognis #AI #Productivity #Startup #BuildInPublic #Innovation #Entrepreneur ...

... retail investors - most of them don't have 3 hours to parse an earnings call and just want to know if the number matters. Natural language on top of financial data is exactly where AI actually adds value vs. just looking useful. Real-time accuracy on constantly changing financial data is genuinely one of the hardest infra problems in this space, so props for taking it on. Comment from Gerard Brandon(@gerard_brandon): @nolan_vu  done, but also looked ... ... learn lol Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): @thenameisarian  Interesting, alternative

... contrast, text readability, face presence, pick the winner - A/B hook testing generate 5 hook openings from your transcript, compare engagement scores - Engagement analytics 7-signal scoring (hook, curiosity, energy, beat sync, face, emotion, virality) with trend tracking - YouTube chapters export, virality scoring, YouTube-to-Reels conversion Professional editing: - 20 transitions (all WebGL shaders), 12 effects, 22 filter presets - Multicam editing, speed ramping, crop & mask, compound clips - Audio effects chain (EQ, compressor, reverb, de-esser, limiter) - LUFS loudness normalization ... ... YouTube/Spotify/podcasts - Beat detection with snap-to-beat - Batch export with 8 platform presets 30+ languages including 22 Indian languages via Sarvam AI unmatched by any competitor

... everyone on Product Hunt! I'm Jane, and for a long time I worked at IT companies. Just recently a new chapter started for me I joined the Publora team. I've got a solid 14 years behind me, and all that time I was telling the world about companies, their projects and their teams. And now here I am to meet you all and help other teams talk about themselves on social media without burning time on posting ... ... what are you all working on? What are you building? Comment from Rian Robertson(@rianbrob): Hey Eugenia! ... love the new chapter

... frame - Calculates chi-squared distance between consecutive frames - Flags changes above threshold as scene cuts or dissolves - Shows before/after thumbnails for each detected scene change All processing happens in the browser using Canvas API. No backend needed. 3. YouTube Chapters Export We already had auto-chapter

... building Folio - a desktop IDE for novelists who want a code-editor workflow (panels, keyboard-driven, fast file ops) instead of a Word/Scrivener vibe. It's local-first: every chapter is a Markdown file on your disk. No accounts, no cloud sync, no telemetry. If Folio disappears tomorrow, your manuscript is still just a folder of `.md` files. What v0.1.9 brings: - Panel-visibility settings (hide/show inspector, plan, AI panels per project) - Split IDE-wide vs

... Building ScoreOne Most platforms stop at showing marks and ranks. We wanted to go deeper into how students actually lose marks during exams: - weak-topic patterns - time-management collapse - repeated mistakes - accuracy under pressure - chapter-wise consistency The interesting part is our AI-assisted question pipeline: Questions are generated in structured JSON format, then validated through multi-stage verification loops for: - conceptual correctness - PYQ-style difficulty alignment - option ambiguity - logical consistency Uncertain questions are automatically routed to a human review ...

... version of it. My phone has hundreds of PDFs and documents piled up: papers, books, manuals, screenshots, with no real way to search them. Now I just ask Claude things like find the paper about a topic or explain chapter 1 from a book I have. It actually reads the contents, not just the names. Works with PDFs, EPUBs, markdown files, and images. Tool calling happens directly on the phone. There is no middle server. The app talks straight ...

... your motivation, and you sit down to write. Then the scope creeps in. You need somewhere to track your characters. Then your locations. Then the relationships between them. Then someone s magic system contradicts something you wrote in chapter four, and now you need a lore bible. So you open a wiki tool. Then you need an outline, so you grab a plotting app. Then you want to clean up your prose, so you sign up for a grammar checker ... ... finally had enough of Microsoft Word. I was writing a fantasy series with deep worldbuilding, hundreds of characters, multiple magic systems, interconnected timelines and Word was buckling under the weight of it. But when I looked at the alternatives

... well, I know that feeling. Not because they ran out of ideas. Because the chaos of managing everything killed the joy. Five apps, zero flow. So I built Storybourne . It's a place where you can write your chapters, track your characters, build your world, and share your work with readers, all in one spot. Some things I'm proud of: A writing streak heatmap (because accountability matters) Paragraph reactions (readers can react to specific lines) A Character Bible ... ... your cast stays consistent Private chapter

... time I can find outside of that. It's a writing platform for fiction writers. The idea came from watching people try to manage their stories across five different apps and still lose track of their characters halfway through chapter twelve. We went live a few weeks ago and have writers using it, which still feels strange to say. Chapters

... This update adds more sense behind the "work on a book" phrasing. Books are now split into chapters by default. Old, single-file books are available to either edit or to convert. No explicit conversion will be performed so you can choose. But going forward, books are better managed with split chapters

... remove is now being removed in different, better ways, and at a pace that Bildr cannot match. After a lot of consideration, and after years of building, I've made the decision that it is time to close this chapter and to shut Bildr down. What that means for you: Studio access to your projects and data, as well as an ability to export all of your data, will be available until May 25, 2026. Log in to Bildr Studio ... ... build faster and better. Comment from Francisco Perdigon Acedo(@francisco_perdigon_acedo): As a developer and founder, this one hurts a bit to read. I ve been experimenting a lot lately with AI-driven dev environments like Cursor or VS

... book (optional) turn your book into engaging podcast if you select the podcast option, to understand the book better. just click to generate the audiobook, the app will automatically format the content for the audiobook, automatically process the audiobook chapter by chapter

... visual node automatically. Where this matters: Dialogue scripts: a beat between a question and an answer Narration: letting a point land before moving to the next Game dialogue: pacing NPC lines so they don't run together Audiobooks: chapter transitions, scene changes, paragraph breaks Pauses show up as empty gaps in the timeline, not as audio clips. This means you can still drag and rearrange clips around them, or adjust the gap manually if the preset duration isn't quite ...

... building LearnBite, a tool designed to make learning from YouTube more effective. LearnBite turns YouTube videos into structured learning sessions by breaking them into chapters and pausing after each section with simple AI-generated questions to help reinforce what you just watched. Instead of passively watching long videos, you can actively engage with the content and improve retention. We re getting ready to launch soon, and you ll be among the first to try it. Stay tuned for the launch ...

... heard of AI writing assistants, but they usually stop at a few chapters or require constant "continue" prompts. I wanted to build something that handles the heavy lifting of long-form content in one go. I m excited to share the beta of **LatentBooks**. It s an engine designed to generate complete, structured books sometimes reaching 500+ pages in less than 5 minutes. The tool is currently in open beta and completely free to use. Check it out here ...

... Indistr has always been about the intersection of music and technology. Today, we are officially opening a new chapter. The generative AI explosion has created a lot of noise. Our mission for 2026 is clear: providing a high-performance directory and technical research (SDR Benchmarks) to help producers separate the toys from the professional tools. We are reclaiming our space at the frontier of sound. Explore the new Indistr: indistr.com ...

... curious enough to try KironX? What felt immediately useful (or confusing)? What would make you come back tomorrow? (You don't have to answer everything lol) Thank you again for your support and for being part of this first chapter. This is just the chapter

... built @Studix to solve a problem I kept hitting while studying: constant tab switching. Reading in one place, searching definitions in another, asking AI in a chat, then coming back totally breaks focus. Studix is a chapter-aware PDF reader. It detects chapters

... just shipped a big update on Facet.ink and it s all about ownership. As a special gift just before Christmas, authors can now download their texts written on Facet - chapter by chapter