... matter more than what the answer actually said. The first comment on a brand new thread with zero replies got more traction than a genuinely well written comment on a thread that already had fifty. Timing on an empty thread beat quality on a crowded one, at least today. None of this is a secret formula, it's just what I actually watched happen instead of guessing at it. Curious what other people have noticed actually pulls real engagement here ... ... versus

... currently stops: AI generates screens, but product experience lives in the sequence between them. The happy path is basically solved. What doesn't come out of a prompt is what happens when someone is confused, hesitant, or something broke empty states, the permission ask that feels invasive, the error that doesn't say what to do next, the ability to undo something. None of those are visual problems, so a tool optimizing for a good-looking screen has no reason ... ... correct for most products and I'd like to know that. Comment from Parastou Saba(@parastou_saba): @andreas_broutas  Ha, "AI made screen design cheaper, not product thinking", better than how I said it. Taking that one. Empty

... where we stop blaming you for emails that render as a beautiful, pristine, completely empty rectangle. Turns out it was us. Well it was the sender's mailer. But we fixed it anyway. Fixed Blank emails are no longer blank. Some mailers finish a message on the last base64 chunk and just walk away, never writing the closing --boundary--. The MIME parser reads that as "this part is broken", quietly demotes your email to an attachment, and hands us nothing ... ... Skim now closes those dangling multiparts itself (innermost first, like a polite houseguest turning off the lights) and parses again. Your booking confirmations are back. No more phantom attachment. That mystery .bin full of raw base64 sitting under the empty

... Small one, and it is already live. You can now mark a field as required in a schema. If a read finishes and that field comes back empty, or does not come back at all, the response records it in the review summary with the reason "missing", and in the sheet view the cell is drawn as an explicitly empty

... finally read the whole study instead of the headline, and the actually useful findings are different from what got shared. First, in their realistic-config lane (instruction file + several MCP servers), the "light" harness came out HEAVIER: ~90.8k vs ~75k. A 72KB instruction file alone added ~20k tokens to every request, on both harnesses. Their own conclusion: configuration, not the harness, accounts for most of the production bill. The harness sets the floor, you set the ceiling. Second ... ... close to a fixed cost. An unstable small one can out-spend it. Size isn't the sin, churn is. Third, session shape flips the winner anyway. On a multi-step task the heavy harness finished cheaper (121k vs

... waiting on the first mailbox query, that query was politely queued behind the catch-up sync, and the app had no way to say "hang on, I'm reading" so it said nothing at all. For hours. In an empty window. Cool. Fixed The window shows up first, the mail follows. The app now draws itself as soon as it knows which mailboxes you have. Folders and messages arrive into a live window instead of holding the door shut ... ... fails outright, you get an error not a blank rectangle and a shrug. No more "welcome to Skim!" for people who've been using Skim for months. Onboarding waits until we actually know your account list is empty

... there's a distinction I keep thinking about: apps built with AI (Cursor, Claude, Copilot writing the code) vs apps that depend on AI APIs at runtime to function. I'm in the first camp. I used AI-assisted coding heavily to build Briskly (a cleaning app that scans your room and generates a timed task list), but the app itself makes zero LLM API calls. The scanning runs on Apple's Vision framework, entirely on-device. No tokens ... ... user inference costs, no latency, works offline, and my privacy label is basically empty

... oday I fixed a reliability issue on DiscountHub that looked small but affected the first impression of the product. Sometimes, when a user opened the website, the deals and promo codes sections remained empty. Refreshing the page made them appear, but most new visitors would not know that. The problem was caused by too many requests being made during the initial page load. A temporary failure could leave an entire section empty

... hint no longer beats the thinking one by a single frame. A flicker so brief it was almost a rumour. Gone anyway. Housekeeping Both streaming clients grew an honest on_reasoning callback next to on_delta, instead of overloading empty fragments to mean something they don't one explicit signal beats three guards you'd maintain forever. On the Anthropic side it's the arrival of the reasoning block that counts, not its contents: redacted blocks are empty

... image had a transparent background and didn't fit the aspect ratio perfectly, the helper would add a subtle, light gray background to the card so that the product didn't look like it was floating awkwardly in empty space. Here is the CSS and JavaScript code I implemented: /* Optimized Product Card Styles */ .product-thumbnail { position: relative; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 1 / 1; /* Keep it perfectly square */ background-color: #fcfcfc; border-radius: 8px; overflow: hidden; display: flex; align-items: center ... ... cartItemsContainer = document.querySelector('.cart-items-list'); const cartTotalElement = document.querySelector('.cart-subtotal-amount'); // Update count badges const totalQty = this.items.reduce((sum, item) => sum + item.qty, 0); cartCountElements.forEach(el => el.textContent = totalQty); // Update list if (cartItemsContainer) { if (this.items.length === 0) { cartItemsContainer.innerHTML = '<li class="empty

... optional toolbar preview for images and file paths copied in other apps; Toolbar visibility can be controlled in `Settings > UI appearance > Clipboard`. Paste with `Ctrl+V` still works when the toolbar is hidden. Box Selection Drag on empty space in the navigator to select multiple items with a selection box. - Modifiers : hold `Ctrl` or `Shift` to add to the current selection; hold `Alt` to invert; - Easier targeting : optionally increase list padding and grid gaps for more room ... ... sorting preferences (with the view permission); - Clipboard API : extensions can read and write the clipboard (with permission); - List-detail view : new extension UI pattern with a searchable list and a detail pane; New Settings: - Enable box selection : drag empty

... Install it the nerdy way. This repo now doubles as a Scoop bucket, updated straight from the release pipeline. (A WinGet manifest is wired up too, but it's still waiting in line at microsoft/winget-pkgs. Patience. ) Fixed The empty violet card of shame. Ask the AI something, watch it think really hard, receive nothing. A blank card. Very zen, deeply useless. The cause: reasoning models spend the same output budget on thinking and answering, and 4k tokens simply wasn ... ... model thought itself right out of room. Budget's now 16k (a ceiling, not a bill short answers cost the same as ever), reasoning blocks are carried through tool rounds properly, and if a round does come back empty

... before my last two launches I wasted weeks building before checking who else was in the space. don t be me. here s the 30-min competitor check I do now, all free tools: 1. search PH archives (5 min) search your keywords on Product Hunt. sort by launch date. note how the top 5 positioned themselves the gaps in their taglines are your opening. 2. check who s actually alive (10 min) a launch from 2023 means nothing ... ... signals: are they hiring? shipped anything in the last 6 months? active changelog? I use exploreyc.com for this (free db of 8,600+ YC / a16z / PH startups with hiring status) but LinkedIn works too. 3. read the comments on competitor

... there's no shared webhooks folder they both sit under. so the glob fix doesn't even apply to the three i have today, they were never colocated in the first place. which proves your enumeration vs property point before i even get to a fourth provider. the property i actually care about isn't "is this file in the webhooks directory," it's "does this handler get called by an external party with money attached to the payload ... ... agent didn't just act, it acted with someone's credentials, someone's access, someone's blast radius. and when it goes wrong, the audit trail usually can't tell you what the agent was actually authorised to do versus

... appeared instead of having to trust a black box. We improved the desktop experience too. Connections are easier to explore, setup is clearer, and new users get better guidance instead of landing in an empty app with no direction. We also made recall faster and more focused, so one large result does not overwhelm your AI assistant with unnecessary context. A lot of work went into making the product more reliable and easier to build on from here. Huge credit ... ... transparency usually builds more trust than a perfect looking roadmap. Comment from Akarsh Hegde(@akarsh_hegde): The open issue tracker is a strong way to turn launch feedback into visible priorities. Curious how you decide what ships immediately versus

... been building EstateAI it lets real estate agents, photographers, and brokerages upload a photo of an empty room and get back a realistic, furnished version in minutes, while preserving the original walls, windows, doors, and layout. The idea came from a real problem in our other business ( Pixel Perfects Solutions ) doing manual virtual staging for real estate client s. It was slow and expensive at scale. So we built EstateAI to make it instant: pick a room type, pick ...

... that already exists. General waits for someone to scroll past it. Same points, different room. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @yosephbet  You are welcome :) Comment from Abdullah Javaid(@abdullah_javaid3): @alieksia   @jernej_jan_kocica  Supply versus reach is the right cut, and it kills my framing rather than yours. What I would add is why the two can never converge, and it is not about how good the threads are. A comment lands in something already ... ... part that actually explains it. 9.1K against your 17, and I have 6. A subforum only puts you in a room that already exists if that room is subscribed to you. Otherwise it is the same empty

... simply make the product slightly better . Security problems, broken payments, lost data, major onboarding failures, or core features that do not work are real blockers. A nicer animation, another integration, slightly better copy, more templates, or one more polished empty state probably are not. The difficult part is that founders are often too close to the product to judge this clearly. A detail that feels embarrassing to us may be invisible to users. At the same time, something we consider ... ... when support tickets and roadmap pressure are both still there but nobody's paying close attention anymore. One guardrail that's worked for me: pick a single person whose only job that week is deciding what's noise versus

... today" is information, not a request. way less friction than any DM, and it doesn't cost the reader anything to act on it Comment from Sabber Ahamed(@sabber_ahamed): @busmark_w_nika   @abdullah_javaid3  the invitation vs favor framing is the most useful line in this whole thread. i caught myself drafting DMs that were basically upvote asks in a nicer outfit. what actually worked was showing up in threads like this one for weeks with nothing ... ... show up, but I'd only been building them about four weeks and four weeks bought me a handful of people. Better than pinging strangers on launch morning, but not enough to move the ranking. The room wasn't empty

... Every AI product I've used starts the same way: an empty chat box and a blinking cursor. The tool has all the capability in the world, but it sits there waiting for me to figure out what to ask. That's a design failure we've all just accepted. The blank page problem killed writing apps for years, and now we've rebuilt it into every AI interface. Think about a great human analyst or a great EA. They ... ... suggestion comes from your actual context or from a generic playbook, but I'm still calibrating where that line sits. Curious how others think about this: should AI tools default to making the first move, or is the empty

... Woke up tired like I'd worked a full shift. Same bug, looping, my brain solving it ten slightly different wrong ways until morning. Git log empty. Nothing real happened. Part of me took it as proof I care about what I'm building. The other part knows a brain that won't clock out isn't a flex, it's a leak. Do you get this one? And if you do, what actually makes it stop? Comment from Omri ... ... clear stopping point instead of chasing one last fix. Even if the bug isn't solved, my brain seems much happier knowing there's already a plan for tomorrow Comment from Yusuf Abdulaziz(@yusuf_abdulaziz): The Git log being empty

... revenue, orders, week-over-week comparison, top products, estimated margin). No need to log into the admin to check numbers. https://apps.shopify.com/reporti... Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): @divvsaxena  Haha no worries man, happy to help. Doing competitor research first is smart, saves you from building something that already exists in a worse form. Honestly user mood detection is underrated as a focus, most tools just chase features and forget that people interact differently depending on how they ... ... worth ad dollars at a tiny budget, and which are a money pit? I'm doing daily build-in-public content on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and X, but I honestly can't tell yet what's driving downloads versus

... must exceed the effective value of the Slot directly above it by at least the platform's Minimum Jump Rate. For example, if Position #5 has an effective value of 100 and the Minimum Jump Rate is 5%, a competitor must reach at least 105 to claim that position. This creates a transparent and predictable ranking system where every movement follows the same public rules. Other users can support Slots they like through Boosts. Boosts work differently from Refuels ... ... test Refuels and try the Boost system. No purchase is required to explore the mechanics. If you decide to have a look, I have some test slots running at this category: https://uppale.com/en/c/restaura... Most other categories are still empty

... exactly the surface you want to expose. Basedash automatically lands embedded users on the first feature that s still visible, and your choices carry through as users navigate inside the embed so there are no dead ends or empty sidebar sections. It s a simple way to ship a more focused, on-brand embedded experience without custom work. Filter dropdowns now populate on shared dashboards Filter dropdowns on publicly shared and embedded dashboards now load their options the way they ... ... inside the app. Both SQL-backed and record-backed filter dropdowns return their choices, so viewers of a shared dashboard can actually pick a value and filter instead of staring at an empty

... free early access and hear what you think Comment from Evgeny Alexeev(@alexe_ev): Here is my 5: Claude - solo building my little product with it! Linear - best jira alternative even for solo Zed - fast and light, if terminal is not enough for you but you won't stick to VS