... perceived as completely normal (at least for me). As equal human work. How do you view things generated by artificial intelligence? Maybe it's true that who is behind the output and prompting also influences the result (professional vs. amateur). But it clashes a bit with the fact that: if we do things with AI, why do we demand less money for the output? (We perceive it as cheap.) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @alieksia  i think ... ... output more. Comment from Sabber Ahamed(@sabber_ahamed): funny thing is polish is what tips me off now, not the AI part. rough edges read as a person actually steered it instead of shipping the first draft Comment from Ethan

... realistic route for most products right now. make it frictionless to try, let the experience sell itself, then slowly shift the default. forcing it too early just creates support tickets. Comment from Zara Noelle(@zara_noelle): @riya_pariyar   @ethan_gabriel  The first time is confusing, then it's basically one tap. Comment from Ethan

... Your product didn't get more trustworthy and in 2026, those turned out to be two completely different problems. Here's the line that reframed it for me. Stanford's AI Index this year leans on a phrase from Ethan Mollick the "jagged frontier" to describe how these systems excel and then fall off a cliff with no warning. Their example is almost too good: an AI model can win a gold medal at the International Math Olympiad and still ... ... transcripts starts accurate and then decays, not because the model changed but because your users did. Which means it has to be refreshed from live traffic on a schedule, or in a year you have rebuilt the exact lab-versus

... then disappear once the traffic dies down. Comment from Samran Elahi(@samran_elahi): @somesh_putatunda  Honestly, I think Product Hunt itself. Threads and conversations here have been more useful than most channels. Comment from Somesh Putatunda(@somesh_putatunda): @ethan_cheng  I can definitely relate to that. Acquiring users is one challenge, but earning enough value and trust for them to stay is a completely different game. Solving both consistently is what makes growth sustainable ... ... discover you through proof. A 20-second clip of the thing actually working got us more genuine curiosity than any pitch ever did. Still feels like early days on this, though. Curious if you've found anything that compounds, versus

... walking helps a lot. Some of the best ideas appear when I'm away from the screen and my brain has space to connect the dots. What do you do to have better ideas and build faster? Comment from Ethan Cheng(@ethan

... send a one-pager, it's faster." A dense page of text and I read none of it. A deck gives an investor a clean, focused way to follow your story, one idea at a time. "Don't mention competitors, it makes you look weak." A blank competition slide reads as naive, not dominant. Showing you understand the landscape is what makes the "here's our edge" line land. I've watched each of these cost founders real momentum ... ... trade in both directions. Getting caught costs you the entire deck. Anything on a slide that a five minute search can contradict should either be exact or not be there at all. Comment from Lucas Pols(@lucasjpols): @ethan

... median points needed to break the top 5 and top 10 on each day. Check the full report here: https://app.databox.com/shared/a... The short version: Saturday is the easiest day. Only 266 median points to crack top 5, vs 360 on Wednesday. That's a 35% harder climb on the worst day vs

... with. Environment failures give you a symptom that could have ten different causes depending on who you ask and what machine you're on. Has your team ever actually tried to measure how much time goes into environment fixes versus actual code issues? Comment from Ellie Russell(@ellie_russell): @faithada Curious if small teams run into this as much as bigger ones. Comment from Brielle Marie(@brielle_marie): @faithada I feel like environment issues are never as simple as they ... ... anyone realizes until they're out sick or move on. The bus factor for environment setup is almost always one. Is that person on your team aware of how much load they're actually holding? Comment from Adamma(@faithada): @ethan

... signing, I d make consent, permitted uses, deletion, and the dataset license explicit at capture and export rather than assume the app s GPL license covers the samples. That governance may matter more to adoption than the paid-versus-community split. Comment from Ethan

... journey with us! https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Comment from Variindar Vaissh(@variindarvaissh): @colesimmons05  A couple, yeah. Nothing I can share yet, but recognition like this does open doors that cold outreach usually can't. Comment from Variindar Vaissh(@variindarvaissh): @ethan_marshall  Hey! If Sendr's story resonated with you, we'd really appreciate an upvote on our Product Hunt launch Every bit of support helps us reach more people who are stuck overpaying to send money home. Thanks ... ... being part of this journey with us! https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Comment from Variindar Vaissh(@variindarvaissh): @ethan

... compiled here the list of top currently available resources on Tyto and ai-coustics SDK to help you get started. Tyto documentation Launch blog with samples Post-call analysis tutorial Live demo app Comment from Mila:)(@ai_mila): @ethan_walker14  Thank you! Let us know if you have any feedback:) Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9924129): Comment Deleted Comment from Mila:)(@ai_mila): @zajindacos123_coder  Good point, thank you for the feedback! The issue with machine-first ...

... would hold their attention for twenty minutes instead of forty seconds. That is the entire premise. Not where you've worked. What you've built. The Real Answer Is Not Either/Or In 2026, the strongest combination is not resume versus profile. It is resume plus profile. One gets you noticed in the first seven seconds of a scan. The other gets you remembered for the twenty minutes after that, and it is the twenty minutes that actually decide whether ... ... ruby_diaz1  Skills are claims. Projects are evidence. Your first project should be your priority, not another course. Comment from Kumar Kislay(@whykislay): @sophie_myers  One viral win impresses. Consistency earns trust. Comment from Kumar Kislay(@whykislay): @ethan

... Ethan, a solo indie developer building Sleep Island. I ve been building it for almost a year, and it recently reached 2,000+ daily active users. It s a sleep app that works with or without an Apple Watch: watch-free sleep tracking, relaxing sleep sounds, local snore recording, sleep talk recording, and detailed sleep reports. For this launch, $29.99 Lifetime Premium is free until June 28. Would love feedback from iOS users, especially people who don t like wearing ...

... part of your daily habits and remove friction from your work. Comment from Ethan Cheng(@ethan

... pressing send yourself. Like a small moment of "yes, I'm choosing to say this." Removing that feels like it removes something that actually matters. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9650542): Comment Deleted Comment from Ethan Marshall(@ethan

... Comment from Suzy Chase(@suzychase): Legit, it's my desktop. It's not even a folder anymore, it's a graveyard at this point. Comment from Kseniia Che(@kseniia_che): Downloads, of course. But screenshots are becoming a serious competitor. And then there are my 20 open browser tabs, which seem to worry other people more than they worry me Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): I do not want to spoil, but... soon, it will be my desktop wallpaper ... ... discovering things you forgot existed. Comment from Tony(@tony2742): @sebastian_patterson   Random PDFs deserve their own category at this point. Manuals, invoices, receipts, reports, guides... somehow they all end up in the same place. Comment from Tony(@tony2742): @ethan

... published on a superhuman blog, that brought in huge audience, and a few more blogs, organic, bitgrain blogs didn't bring in much Comment from Diptanshu Mahish(@diptanshu_mahish): @violet_amelia  yess ! Comment from Diptanshu Mahish(@diptanshu_mahish): @ethan_marshall  the spike lasted a week, but the conversion wasn't very high, now the spike has flattened a lot, but the users who come, are more likely those who are converting. Comment from Diptanshu Mahish(@diptanshu_mahish): @seoulful ... ... those people came looking for the thing. makes sense you held the launch back til it feels right. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9587622): Comment Deleted Comment from Diptanshu Mahish(@diptanshu_mahish): @milescward  I research on the competitors

... permissioning something you're building natively, or does that get delegated to whatever the team's existing auth setup is? Comment from Siddharth Patel(@siddharth9903): @zhen_han  Oh that's great Comment from Zhen Han(@zhen_han): @ethan_gabriel  Approvals scale by ownership. Each human should be the manager of their own agents: they configure the agent s permissions, tool/app access, channel scope, and escalation rules. Routine work stays inside that scope; anything risky or unclear routes back ... ... from Skylar Henderson(@skylar_henderson): What replaces status updates in this workflow? Comment from Riya Pariyar(@riya_pariyar): @zhen_han  this answers it really well, thank you. the auditable actor trail piece is what makes it feel trustworthy vs

... presentations. Would love to hear your thoughts: What makes a good cursor in recordings for you? Also yes, you can turn your cursor into a cute cat Not essential, but hard to resist. Comment from Sangwon Lee(@gamzabaw): @ethan_walker14  Totally agree it s always the small details that make the difference. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9647935): Comment Deleted Comment from Sangwon Lee(@gamzabaw): @evan_sterling  Thanks! I actually debated adding a full cat body with ...

... Claude just because of that Pentagon case, or were you using it before as well? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @dishantsinghdev  Thanks to that, Claude started growing pretty fast. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @ethan_blake2  IMO, every of these companies somehow collabs with governments. So it is like choosing from a bigger evil and smaller evil Comment from Ryan W. McClellan, MS(@ryanwmcc1): I switched before even then. ChatGPT just doesn't cut it. Even ...

... Launching Tight Studio Starter plan, a much more powerful Screen Studio alternative at only $5 per month (and $3.75 per month if you subscribe yearly). If you missed it: we recently won Product of the Day on Product Hunt - people love it as the modern, AI-native alternative

... Inspired by Lenny s podcast with Ethan Smith (so good, you need to listen - the advice for builders is insane and can't believe it's free...), I wanted to share a few things I ve been seeing going deep into Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for @Meet-Ting . I spend a lot of my day in GPT and Gemini, and over the last few months I started getting more curious about how their recommendations are actually pulled from ... ... expert, listen to the podcast, but I am actively tackling it so have some tactical learnings. I mainly came across AEO by looking at competitors

... Product Hunt! My name is Ethan and co founder of WeFit Labs, a gamified fitness platform that is leveraging wearables devices to motivate people to move together. People can track their steps, calories, etc to complete quests and compete with friends via a leaderboard. ( Think Duolingo Meets Strava but not just for runners) My traditional corporate career has been in Finance and when my first corporate job IPO'd I took an opportunity to work ...

... land the client. Lavoro AI lets freelancers and SMB store documents and proposals, and use AI generate new ones with the client information and previous writing style. Eager to get feedback on the initial product launch! Comment from Ethan Haas(@ethan

... Product Hunt, I'm Ethan. I m a college dropout who couldn t stop building. Over the past few years, I ve launched a bunch of free projects, built out of curiosity, not for growth or monetization, but because they felt worth doing. Most of them revolve around making expert knowledge more accessible (the kind of stuff that s valuable but hard to find or use). Right now, I m building something new in the AI/health space. Still early ... ... give you a follow Comment from Isabelle Dijkhorst(@isabelle_dijkhorst): Awesome!! I love the determination I'm also working on making knowledge accessible, but for startups specifically :) What is the most exciting one you're working on? Comment from Ethan