... Product Hunt community! Whether you're debugging web API payloads, formatting basic auth tokens, or handling string encodings during web development, having a fast and secure Base64 tool is an essential part of the daily developer workflow. To simplify this process without relying on cluttered or laggy sites, I vibe-coded a clean, browser-based Base64 Encoder and Decoder micro-tool. Key features & functionality: Instant Bi-directional Conversion: Effortlessly encode raw text into Base64 format and decode Base64 strings ... ... back to plain text in real-time. Developer-Friendly Handling

... loop). We are officially open-sourcing the core engine on GitHub this Friday, August 21st! Before the launch, I d love to hear from the makers here: For those of you building Agentic AI apps, how are you currently handling tool permissions and runtime security? > Looking forward to hearing your strategies and sharing the repo with you all on Friday ...

... everyone BookKraft AI launched on Product Hunt today. It's a browser-based toolkit for indie authors that handles the part of publishing most people discover too late: getting a manuscript technically ready for KDP, Apple Books, and other stores. EPUB validation, Kindle formatting, metadata building, manuscript cleanup it runs before tools like Vellum or Atticus, not instead of them. Five tools are free with no signup, rest is one-time payment (no subscription), and AI credits never expire. Genuinely ...

... more useful product decisions we made that quarter. The bad review turned into real signal. Still not fun to receive, but the instinct to defend rather than listen is something I had to consciously work against. How did you handle your first real negative piece of feedback in public? Did you reply, ignore it, or do what I almost did and write a paragraph of defensive context ...

... unloved kind. What I can never quite tell: does everyone just accept this as part of the job, or have some of you found genuinely good ways to make it less painful? So I'm curious how you all handle it What do you use today: Notion, Confluence, Google Docs, Loom (or video walkthroughs in general), PDFs, something custom? What's the worst part: writing it, keeping it up to date, or making it look professional for the client ...

... spikes are one of the most frustrating things that can happen. While testing higher concurrent loads on our backend, we noticed our app was dropping connections not because the CPU was maxed out, but because the database couldn't handle too many open connection requests at once. Here are 3 quick tweaks we made to fix connection bottlenecks: 1. Implemented Connection Pooling: Managed and reused open database connections instead of opening/closing a new connection for every single HTTP request ... ... clean fallback UI instead of hanging load states. This reduced our database response times significantly and stopped server crashes during concurrent user spikes. For fellow developers and tech builders: >> What is your preferred stack or strategy for handling

... thing that doesn't get enough attention in proxy discussions is how to handle failures in automated CI/CD environments. We recently moved our data validation tests to run on every PR, and the proxy layer became our biggest flake factor. Here's what we figured out along the way: 1. Proxy failures break CI in unpredictable ways A test that passes on your local machine can fail in CI simply because the CI environment is using a different proxy ... ... depend on in CI/CD. 80M+ verified residential IPs, automatic rotation, and transparent pay-as-you-go pricing with no surprises. If you're tired of flaky tests caused by proxy issues, take a look: https://pxyedge.com How do you handle

... Move fast on UI and non-core features using rapid prototyping tools. 2. Keep the core logic clean and modular so it doesn't break under load. I'd love to learn how other founders and engineering teams handle this: Do you refactor early, or wait until real users start complaining about performance? What is your threshold for pausing new feature development to clean up technical debt? Looking forward to your insights! Comment from Jennifer Cooker(@jennifer_cooker): A friend ...

... provides APIs for checking URL status, monitoring coverage, and submitting sitemaps. However, the one action many site owners actually want the Request Indexing button in Search Console does not appear to have a general public API. My current workflow handles everything that can be automated: Checking URL indexing status Reviewing pages stuck in discovery or crawling stages Resubmitting sitemaps Creating a shortlist of pages that may need attention The final step still requires manually reviewing the list and requesting indexing ... ... where needed. I m curious how other makers and SEO-focused builders handle

... back, B2C on the front, one system keeping them in sync. The product side I've got covered. The legal side is the part I keep second-guessing, and I'd love to hear how you handle it. How do solopreneurs actually handle

... team, how do you turn a silent website visitor into a real conversation? Do you usually use: - a contact form - live chat - Calendly / demo booking - plain email - Telegram / WhatsApp / Discord - something else? Mostly trying to understand how founders actually handle this before we ship our first version. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-10026262): Comment Deleted Comment from Mia Qiao(@mia_qiao): @sadie_charlotte  That s a great point sometimes the friction isn t the tool itself ... ... running into. We re seeing over 100k visits per month now, so a simple manual setup probably won t be enough for long. We re starting to think more seriously about a real routing system. Curious how are you handling

... months ago HirePilot had zero organic presence. One person handling all of marketing. No budget for writers, no appetite for agency overhead. The answer we landed on: build a system instead of hiring. Here is what we run today. Airtable is the content database and the trigger layer. Every piece of content lives as a row in one table. The status field drives everything. Make is the automation engine. Claude API handles

... source verifier for document citations, source evidence, and RAG). While building it, we realized just how easily LLMs get totally confused by simple tables or negative sentences (like missing a "not" or "except"). We have our own way of handling it, but we know there isn t just one right answer. I really want to know how other builders and founders here are tackling this. What kind of document hallucinations are driving you crazy the most? Fake numbers: Making ... ... small negative word like not or unless. Summaries can hide the mistake, but extraction/Q&A makes it much easier to spot when the model stretched the evidence too far. I ll take a look at Ethos the supported vs

... people like Marc Lou or Levelsio do a lot of them and as solo founders, they are pretty fast and versatile (but they probably delegate some things to other freelancers - that's my guess). How many projects can you handle at once? Either solo or together? For example, I was handling

... directly and making it a feature instead of a flaw flips the script in a really smart way. Recruiters needing to know what was AI vs human is going to matter way more in 2026 than most people realize. Aug 12 launch is close. How are you planning to handle

... both content and   product work.   2. Google Search Console I basically live in it. For anything SEO, it's the only honest source of truth   about what's actually happening vs. what I assume is happening.   3. Ahrefs keyword and competitor

... VibeAround v0.6.10 is out. This release focuses on bridge reliability, Gemini setup, and cleaner provider workflows. What changed: - Added Gemini Google OAuth connection support and native Gemini upstream routing. - Upgraded API bridge media handling through va-ai-api-bridge 0.1.4 from crates.io . - Added safer image/file omission for text-only target models, so a conversation can keep going even when a target model cannot read an attachment. - Fixed the DeepSeek Anthropic-style tool_use / tool_result bridge path. - Cleaned up profile ... ... choice. From a user experience standpoint, nothing is more frustrating than having an entire session drop or fail just because of one unsupportable attachment. Keeping the conversation alive while making the limitation visible is the most practical way to handle

... voice agent entirely and go directly to a forwarding number. That is useful for field service professionals who may not want to miss calls from important customers while they are with a customer, driving, in a meeting, or handling an active job. Scheduling Studio also includes AI agents beyond voice: The Guardian protects deep work and helps prevent burnout. The Negotiator handles

... businesses already have: websites, social media, forms, inboxes, CRMs, and messaging channels. The real issue is fragmentation. Messages arrive from different places. Teams reply inconsistently. Follow-ups get forgotten. Important leads disappear inside inbox chaos. After researching how companies handle customer communication, one pattern became obvious: The businesses growing fastest are usually the ones responding fastest. ( ReplyBase ) What We re Building ReplyBase is designed to help businesses: capture enquiries instantly, automate repetitive replies, centralize conversations, and reduce manual follow ... ... Automation should reduce workload, not remove humans Another important lesson: Businesses still want control. Many companies do not trust fully autonomous AI replies yet especially for sensitive conversations. The strongest systems seem to be hybrid systems: AI handles

... this Saturday 25th: Inr is now an AI-first platform, and here's what that actually means. Because here's what we kept hearing: people would build a solid flow, it would convert, and then ask "can it just handle the whole conversation?" Not just send a message, but actually understand what someone wants, respond, collect info, route them, and follow up. So, we built exactly that. A complete AI Agent for Instagram understands how you talk, mirrors your tone ... ... knows your goals, taps into your knowledge base, collects information mid-conversation, takes actions, and escalates when a human needs to step in. Not a chatbot. It handles

... this guide isn't just a quick summary. We're going to go deep. We'll explain exactly what Snaply is, how it works, why privacy matters so much for dictation tools, how it stacks up against every major alternative, who it's best for, and how to get the most out of it. Whether you're a solo professional, part of a team, or evaluating dictation software for an enterprise deployment, this is the most complete breakdown ... ... find. Table of Contents Why AI Dictation Matters in 2026 What Makes a Truly Great Dictation App What Is Snaply? Snaply's Core Features: In Depth Why Privacy Is Non-Negotiable for Dictation Snaply vs

... founder of Munch. I built this because I kept watching creators spend hours turning one video into posts. You paste a YouTube or Vimeo URL Munch extracts the transcript using 5 fallback strategies (so it actually works on videos competitors choke on) Claude AI writes 8 complete, platform-ready pieces in ~60 seconds. No file uploads. No per-action credits. One munch = everything. PH exclusive: Your first munch is completely free, no card needed. Just sign up at munch.video ... ... outputs, no subscription Annual plans available on all tiers. ============================================================================ WHAT'S RUNNING UNDER THE HOOD (the stuff that proves it's not just smoke and mirrors) ============================================================================ WHY CLAUDE? =========== Munch runs on Claude Anthropic's flagship model, not a cheaper alternative

... know it's happening. Here's what I've learned after analyzing 500+ SaaS products, tools, and digital products at Rankfender. The Mistake Most product owners treat AI visibility like a marketing problem. They think: "Let the SEO team handle it." Here's why that's wrong: Your product is being evaluated by AI every single day. When potential users ask: "What's the best tool for [your category]?" "Alternatives

... outputs, no subscription Annual plans available on all tiers. ============================================================================ WHAT'S RUNNING UNDER THE HOOD (the stuff that proves it's not just smoke and mirrors) ============================================================================ WHY CLAUDE? =========== Munch runs on Claude Anthropic's flagship model, not a cheaper alternative. We made a deliberate choice not to cut corners on the AI layer because the AI layer is the product. Long-form content repurposing requires a model that can hold narrative across 800 words, match a brand voice consistently across ... ... different formats, and write something you'd actually publish not something you spend 20 minutes editing into shape. We tested the alternatives

... Computer Science student doing research into how solopreneurs and small startups create new apps and what their stack looks like. Particularly, I'm interested in how you handle things like authentication, billing, and permissions/authorization in your apps. Let me know what you're working on below and how you're going about it -- I'd love to connect for some quick calls to learn about your product and talk about your process in building it! Comment from Thanh C ng Tr n ... ... background), so my stack is intentionally lightweight and fast to iterate. High level stack: Frontend: iOS (SwiftUI) Design: Figma (for flows + early visualization) Backend: Firebase (Auth, Firestore, real-time updates) Auth: Firebase Auth (email + OAuth) Community / feedback: Discord Firebase handles